Posted on 06/05/2013 6:56:01 AM PDT by Altariel
We’ve been hearing a number of reports this past year about students being suspended for being kids and standing up for their constitutional rights. Kindergartners, first and second graders are being punished for pretend shooting with their fingers or supposedly chewing a toaster pastry into the shape of a gun. But have you ever heard of a student being suspended for saving the life of another student?
Last Tuesday morning, 7th grader Briar MacLean was sitting in class. It was a study period. While the teacher was on the far side of the classroom, one student near Briar began to bully another student. Briar saw the bully grab his victim and place him in a headlock when he heard the distinctive click of a knife opening up. That’s when Briar instinctively reacted and got between the two students and pushed the knife-wielding bully away, where he was quickly subdued.
The victim thanks Briar for stepping in to help, and then the two students went about their classes. During the fourth period, Briar was summoned to the school office where he was asked about the incident and had to give a statement as to what happened. At that point, the police were called in, not on the knife wielding student but on Briar, where they searched Briar’s locker.
Briar MacLean ended up serving an in-school suspension for the rest of the day. Briar’s mom, Leah O’Donnell was called to the school and told that her son had been involved in an incident. When the school informed her of what had happened, she was surprised that her son was being disciplined for doing something heroic. According to O’Donnell:
“They phoned me and said, ‘Briar was involved in an incident today.’ That he decided to ‘play hero’ and jump in.”
“I asked: ‘In the time it would have taken him to go get a teacher, could that kid’s throat have been slit?’ She said yes, but that’s beside the point. That we ‘don’t condone heroics in this school.’”
O’Donnell went on to say that she has raised her son to stand up for himself and for others. Briar has stood up to bullies in the past and like this time, he found himself in trouble for doing so.
Schools have an agenda and it’s not to educate your children. Their agenda is to raise up a generation of leftist liberals that will help them transform the country into a socialist government. And guess what, I’m not just talking about America’s public schools, but Canada’s as well.
The public schools don’t want heroic students! Rather they want to mass produce robotic clones that carry out their progressive ideologies.
now he’s getting suspended??
i had heard he was disciplined ... but hadn’t heard suspension was on the table.
kids, just remember... if anyone pulls a knife or gun on a teacher ... DO NOT INTERFERE... you wouldn’t want to be accused of acting ‘heroically’
Wrong lesson to teach kids, period.
Some people are too stupid to breathe.
She said yes, but that’s beside the point. That we ‘don’t condone heroics in this school.’”
We can pay all the attention possible, but nothing matters. Hillary put it “What difference does it make!” What state was this in? Could it be FL, which has one of the most screwed up “justice systems”?
Maybe it’s time to unionize public school students to fight against the stupidity going on there. Think something along the lines of HSDLA along with teaching the students about their rights in the classroom.
Place the kid in another school.
And then publicly SLAM the idiots at his current school.
It happened in Canada.
these things do not surprise me... public schools are government schools... and leftist government schools at that... my oldest son (who has always been homeschooled) easily stood up for himself at an arcade in the mall a couple of years ago... he was 14 at the time... some boys started following him around asking him for money... my son said no... he didn’t have any money for them... they persisted and my son, in a firmer tone, said no! they walked away... a while later they saw my son buy more tokens... they walked up to him and said, “hey, you said you didn’t have any money!” To which my son said, “i don’t have any money for YOU... why would you come to an arcade with no money? now stop asking me.”
We need to remember that ALL employees at a public school are our servants and our employees. And their opinion can and should be treated as an opinion.
I remember watching a girls soccer game where an already violent team member from the other team cold cocked one of my daughter’s teams players. As I went on the field, the coach said to get off the field and the refs would handle it. I yelled to her that battery is battery, whether it is on a kid’s soccer field or a dark alley, and it is up to anyone with the physical power to do so to step in and rectify the situation.
Again, battery is battery. This ain’t Rollerball.
It happened in Canada.
I think she meant to say, “we don’t condone academics in this school...”
I don’t know how it works in Canada, or much anywhere else for that matter, but in California, schools are paid per day for attendance. Parents could easily get the message across very quickly by simply standing in front of the school with their children and state that they’re not entering until the suspension is removed from the student’s record and school officials apologize for the incident.
Even if it’s just thirty parents, that is a significant hit to the school’s bottom line, and even the implied threat of this happening more than one day would move school administrators to change their ways.
Hence the need to get out of public schools. This is exactly the solution.
Their school administrators are just as daft as ours are. That’s comforting to know.
This apparently happened in Canada - Calgary.
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