Parents, take note of this story. If your son or daughter gets in trouble at school for fighting and you go to see a principal or a teacher to talk about it, don’t give them a reason to think about where they get it from.

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - A woman has been sentenced to two years’ probation for displaying a handgun during a meeting with her son’s assistant principal.

Mary E. Cozad, 56, also was ordered to pay a $200 fine after she pleaded guilty Monday to a charge of unlawfully carrying a weapon.

State District Judge George Gallagher sentenced her to probation with deferred adjudication, which means the charge will be dropped from her criminal record if she completes the terms of probation, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported in its online edition Tuesday.

According to the story, Cozad walked into the assistant principal’s office to talk about her son’s suspension for fighting on a school bus, closed the door and took her handgun and holster out of her purse. With all the crap women carry in their purses, it probably took 15 minutes to get it out of there.

She then placed the gun on a shelf near the assistant principal. Now the story doesn’t say she threatened the principal with the gun or even pointed it at her, but knowing how steamed my mom used to get at me for fighting, the assistant principal is lucky she didn’t threaten to drop an A-bomb on his house.

The good news is no actual shots were fired during the incident and she won’t have to go to jail as long as she follows the terms of her probation. But the probation term is good because imagine the liability she would be to the jail. I mean, she could bake a saw into a cake WHILE she was still in the joint.