N TX school dist. to allow teachers to bear arms

[CrAz3D]

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5945430.html

Intense.  SERIOUSLY intense.

[Newby]

The only reason that's understandable is because it's a thirty minute drive to the nearest sheriff's office.

The fact that they made news with it is stupid. Had it been done silently, it would have been much more effective. This can only draw more extremes (heavily deter or heavily instigate school shootings) there.

You can pretty much assume only one or two teachers will end up carrying, as the list of requirements is pretty intense.

[MyndFyre]

I was hoping they'd pass the bill to allow it on college campi here in Arizona, but I'm not sure about lower education.

[CrAz3D]

The only reason that's understandable is because it's a thirty minute drive to the nearest sheriff's office.

The fact that they made news with it is stupid. Had it been done silently, it would have been much more effective. This can only draw more extremes (heavily deter or heavily instigate school shootings) there.

You can pretty much assume only one or two teachers will end up carrying, as the list of requirements is pretty intense.

The requirements aren't too intense at all.

I was hoping they'd pass the bill to allow it on college campi here in Arizona, but I'm not sure about lower education.

Same.  Even though, under the NM Constitution the NM law banning carry on campus is completely invalid.

[iago]

I was hoping they'd pass the bill to allow it on college campi here in Arizona, but I'm not sure about lower education.

I don't mean to throw this thread off topic (ok, yes I do ), but, "campi"? Is that proper?

[Ender]

meh, texas...

i think campuses is proper.

[MyndFyre]

I was hoping they'd pass the bill to allow it on college campi here in Arizona, but I'm not sure about lower education.

I don't mean to throw this thread off topic (ok, yes I do ), but, "campi"? Is that proper?

*shrug*  A professor once told me that any English word that ends in -us is pluralized to end in -i.  He made a special point to emphasize that campus becomes plural as campi.  He was a professor and he was from Germany, so I didn't really have reason to doubt him (since higher-educated people from non-English-speaking countries generally know proper grammar better than native speakers), but he also had said "fundament" meaning "foundation," so I suppose he could be wrong.  Ultimately, it has a 2d20 chance of making me sound more sophisticated.

[iago]

I was hoping they'd pass the bill to allow it on college campi here in Arizona, but I'm not sure about lower education.

I don't mean to throw this thread off topic (ok, yes I do ), but, "campi"? Is that proper?

*shrug*  A professor once told me that any English word that ends in -us is pluralized to end in -i.  He made a special point to emphasize that campus becomes plural as campi.  He was a professor and he was from Germany, so I didn't really have reason to doubt him (since higher-educated people from non-English-speaking countries generally know proper grammar better than native speakers), but he also had said "fundament" meaning "foundation," so I suppose he could be wrong.  Ultimately, it has a 2d20 chance of making me sound more sophisticated.

Well, I know that "virus" is properly pluralised to "viruses", not to "virii", so that shoots his argument in the foot.

[MyndFyre]

I was hoping they'd pass the bill to allow it on college campi here in Arizona, but I'm not sure about lower education.

I don't mean to throw this thread off topic (ok, yes I do ), but, "campi"? Is that proper?

*shrug*  A professor once told me that any English word that ends in -us is pluralized to end in -i.  He made a special point to emphasize that campus becomes plural as campi.  He was a professor and he was from Germany, so I didn't really have reason to doubt him (since higher-educated people from non-English-speaking countries generally know proper grammar better than native speakers), but he also had said "fundament" meaning "foundation," so I suppose he could be wrong.  Ultimately, it has a 2d20 chance of making me sound more sophisticated.

Well, I know that "virus" is properly pluralised to "viruses", not to "virii", so that shoots his argument in the foot.

*shrug* 

[Camel]

People also popularly use 'alumni' as if it were the singular form. That doesn't make it correct.