Student Suspended from School for Saving Classmate's Life; School Says it Does Not "Condone Heroics"

Pundit Press ^ | 6/01/13 | Aurelius

[therightliveswithus]

A Canadian student in Calgary has been suspended for saving the life of a classmate from a knife-wielding bully, according to the National Post.

13-year-old Briar MacLean stepped in between an assailant, whose name has not been released, who was brandishing a knife while attacking another student. MacLean pushed the attacker away, and the bully was subdued.

MacLean was thanked by the victim; the young man then went about his day at school. However, several periods later, according to both Briar and the school, he "got called to the office and... wasn’t able to leave until the end of the day.” He received the equivalent of in-school suspension.

The reason? A teacher had seen what MacLean had done, told the principle, who then phoned the police... on Briar. The police then searched the young man's locker and he was asked for a statement.

Briar's mother, Leah O’Donnell, recalled asking the teacher who reported her son about the incident: “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.’ ”

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

The world has gone completely mad. Every day we see more evidence of this.

[OneWingedShark]

“We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man

[o-n-money]

Bleeding out students are OK though.

[21twelve]

Good for the hero. My only complaint might be that he didn’t hold the knife wielding bully while the other kid called 911 to have the bully arrested.

[ansel12]

Couldn’t they just use chemical castration instead, and let him remain in school?

[the OlLine Rebel]

This is what you get when constantly chastised by “the authorities” NOT to do anything but to call them/LEOs. You’re not a professional so should never try to do their job.

[fabian]

what is even more mad is that parents are willing to send their kids to these indoctrination centers called public schools, rather than living more poorly and at least protecting their most important part of their lives!

[familyop]

S.O.W., also known as the SWC (Status of Women Canada, a federal government organization in Canada) strikes again. No “male” heroes allowed. Coming soon, to a government school closer to us.

[EDINVA]

Now, if there’s someone brandishing a knife at that teacher, students and others will know to butt out, right?

[BookmanTheJanitor]

The Calgary Board of Education did not respond to a request for comment.

Cowards

[ConorMacNessa]

It's incredible to me, and appalling, the depths to which our society has fallen in my lifetime. Thank you very much for the reference to C.S. Lewis, One Winged Shark. In my youth, we were reading works of his, G.K Chesterton, and others.

We knew what men were back then - what's being indoctrinated in our schools now is something else.



"Riamh nár dhruid ó sbairn lann!"

Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[Kevmo]

‘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.’ ”
***This is freeping unbelievable. Is this the onion? Does this school condone a kid pulling a knife on the other kid?

How do we reach these administrators to give them raspberries and how do we reach this kid to give him kudos?

[Kevmo]

“We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.” ― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man ***Almost tagline worthy, a bit too long for FR unfortunately

[DIRTYSECRET]

just have someone pull a knife on the principal.

[Secret Agent Man]

Fire every adult associated with harassing this boy. And make sure they can never work around any young people ever again.

[Kirkwood]

So this teacher witnessed the attack and did nothing to stop it? What a coward.

[Nik Naym]

So it is clear the infestation has crossed our northern border and Canadian schools are toast too.

[servo1969]

IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
and now...
COWARDICE IS BRAVERY

[Kevmo]

Maybe someone could drive dozens of gallons of highly combustible liquid onto the school premises in a device that can generate huge amounts of kinetic energy.

That crap happens EVERY day, by the HUNDREds, because teachers drive cars to school.