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Student Suspended from School for Saving Classmate's Life; School Says it Does Not "Condone Heroics"
Pundit Press ^ | 6/01/13 | Aurelius

Posted on 06/01/2013 9:10:48 PM PDT by 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.’ ”

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1 posted on 06/01/2013 9:10:48 PM PDT by therightliveswithus
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To: therightliveswithus

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


2 posted on 06/01/2013 9:14:20 PM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: therightliveswithus
“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
3 posted on 06/01/2013 9:14:25 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: therightliveswithus

Bleeding out students are OK though.


4 posted on 06/01/2013 9:15:18 PM PDT by o-n-money
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To: therightliveswithus

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.


5 posted on 06/01/2013 9:18:27 PM PDT by 21twelve ("We've got the guns, and we got the numbers" adapted and revised from Jim M.)
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To: therightliveswithus

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


6 posted on 06/01/2013 9:20:30 PM PDT by ansel12 (Social liberalism/libertarianism, empowers, creates and imports, and breeds, economic liberals.)
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To: therightliveswithus

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.


7 posted on 06/01/2013 9:22:11 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten

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!


8 posted on 06/01/2013 9:23:16 PM PDT by fabian (" And a new day will dawn for those who stand long, and the forests will echo in laughter")
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To: therightliveswithus

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.


9 posted on 06/01/2013 9:24:22 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
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To: therightliveswithus

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


10 posted on 06/01/2013 9:25:22 PM PDT by EDINVA
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To: therightliveswithus
The Calgary Board of Education did not respond to a request for comment.

Cowards

11 posted on 06/01/2013 9:28:43 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: therightliveswithus; OneWingedShark
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)

12 posted on 06/01/2013 9:29:14 PM PDT by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
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To: therightliveswithus

‘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?


13 posted on 06/01/2013 9:32:24 PM PDT by Kevmo ("A person's a person, no matter how small" ~Horton Hears a Who)
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To: 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 ***Almost tagline worthy, a bit too long for FR unfortunately
14 posted on 06/01/2013 9:34:05 PM PDT by Kevmo ("A person's a person, no matter how small" ~Horton Hears a Who)
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To: Kevmo

just have someone pull a knife on the principal.


15 posted on 06/01/2013 9:35:59 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: therightliveswithus

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


16 posted on 06/01/2013 9:37:29 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: therightliveswithus

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


17 posted on 06/01/2013 9:37:56 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: therightliveswithus

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


18 posted on 06/01/2013 9:38:38 PM PDT by Nik Naym (It's not my fault... I have compulsive smartass disorder.)
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To: therightliveswithus

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


19 posted on 06/01/2013 9:38:54 PM PDT by servo1969
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To: DIRTYSECRET

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.


20 posted on 06/01/2013 9:39:31 PM PDT by Kevmo ("A person's a person, no matter how small" ~Horton Hears a Who)
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