TAMPA - An Armwood High School English teacher was removed from her classroom last week after students working on her car in auto body repair class discovered a loaded .22-caliber handgun in her console.
Margaret Brady, 52, a teacher in Hillsborough County since 1982, told school officials she stored the handgun in her car along with other belongings after her home was broken into, spokesman Stephen Hegarty said.
"That's a big problem," Hegarty said. State, federal and local laws ban guns on school campuses under most circumstances. Brady is on paid leave pending a school district investigation. So far, she has not been charged with a crime.
