Cooper High School baseball team - rasies money with poster of team holding weapons - Brief Article

Reason, March, 2001 by Charles Oliver

* When the Cooper High School baseball team needed to raise money for repairs to the home field, they decided to sell a poster of themselves. And what better way to call attention to their heavy hitters than to pose, holding weapons, with a National Guard tank? The poster declared that the Texas team was "Armed and Dangerous." Of course they got complaints, but school officials don't see the problem.

"At the time, we weren't thinking about school violence," said school superintendent Pat Henderson. "We were thinking military."