PALESTINE \u2014 An East Texas school district makes it known: you better not mess with their kids. Signs posted at all four Westwood ISD campuses in Palestine read, \u201cNotice: staff may be armed to protect students.\u201d Superintendent Ed Lyman says the signs went up after the Sandy Hook Shooting. He says no one\u2019s complained, but some parents are concerned. According to Lyman, \u201cWe pray that there\u2019ll never be an accident, just like we pray there\u2019ll never be an assault on our schools. But if there is, we want to be ready to defend ourselves.\u201d He says the staffers who have had special training are armed, and some are former military or police officers. He tells news media the plan is adapted from one used by the Harrold ISD near the Oklahoma border. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
PALESTINE \u2014 An East Texas school district makes it known: you better not mess with their kids. Signs posted at all four Westwood ISD campuses in Palestine read, \u201cNotice: staff may be armed to protect students.\u201d Superintendent Ed Lyman says the signs went up after the Sandy Hook Shooting. He says no one\u2019s complained, but … Continue reading Westwood ISD Chief Discusses Armed Staff<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-06 13:34:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=251619"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251694,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251619\/revisions\/251694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=251619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=251619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=251619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}