Nothing could POSSIBLY go wrong with this
From my internet provider's homepage (where I first saw it).
ABC News
A school district in Texas has decided to allow teachers to carry concealed guns in school. Sure, they have to be licensed to carry a concealed weapon in Texas, and the school district does have the wisdom to also require them to have "training in crisis management and hostile situations and have to use ammunition that is designed to minimize the risk of ricochet in school halls," but this still doesn't seem like a good idea. Then again, the locked doors, cameras, metal detectors, and all the other security measures in schools have never set right with me. They seem like poor attempts to treat a symptom of a much bigger problem. That and an overreaction to a new problem that isn't new and isn't that much of a problem. (Kind of like the whole War on Terror.)
American schools really bother me. They've always struck me as making that basic mistake of attempting to teach people to be citizens of a democracy while training them to be used to a dictatorship. I know people aren't very comfortable with the idea that kids are people and should maybe, just maybe have a few rights, but the complete lack of rights people have in school creeps me the hell out. I've been known to argue that schools appear to be socializing people for prison, and I really hate it when I get additional ammunition for that argument. Yay, the teachers in that school district just got that much closer to being correctional officers. Awesome. -_-
Then there's the fact that it really isn't clear that our nation's schools are dangerous enough to warrant the measures taken. Yes, there have been a couple of instances of people (either random people or students) going into schools to take hostages and/or kill people. People have also gone into shopping malls, churches, colleges, workplaces, restaurants, and trains to shoot people. They've also lurked near highways to shoot random people. And there's not a damn thing we can do about it. At least not from the lock the doors, arm everyone, and panic point of view. We can try to have a society that produces as small a number of people who solve their frustrations with murder as possible, but that's it. Nothing will prevent the occasional wacko from killing people. Nothing.
If you have a school that's dangerous because of the students, arming the teachers could go very badly. For one thing, if the teachers have a way of getting on campus past whatever security measures, the students can figure out how to exploit that. Then we can have shootouts in the classroom. Wouldn't that be great. -_-
And then there's one little fun historical fact that gets overlooked in the whole "OMG save our students protect our schools OMG!" argument. The worst mass killing in an American school happened in 1927. That's 1927, folks. And the perpetrator? A disgruntled school board member. So... who's making sure today's school board members can't blow up their schools? Think of the children people! Think of the children!
Edit: I almost forgot the worst part. This seems to be to protect the school from random passing evildoers. How is that supposed to work, other than the aforementioned gunfight aproach? Signs on the building saying "Caution, teachers may be armed"? Better hope the random passing evildoers can read, then. And believe you. And are deterred.