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.
Briar’s local tv news and newspaper should do stories about his heroic deed and then slap down the school. A reporter needs to not only interview the principal but the president of the school board as well. Parents forget or are too lazy to remind the school and the school board who elects them and writes their paychecks. Briar should tell the tv news that when he turns 18, he plans on running for school board to make sure bs like this stops.
As bad as this is, it’s a common attitude these days. Don’t interfere, don’t intervene, don’t try to stop anything yourself. You are not authorized to act in any way. Only the authorities are authorized to act. It is better to stand and watch a murder while dialing 911. Do not think. Do not act.
My wife’s a teacher, as are several of my coworkers and friends’. While I understand the hyperbole, not all are like the ones described in this article.
Once upon a time, there was a great nation, filled with the spirit of God, where folks helped their neighbors, looked after each other’s youngin’s, fed each other (even if it was beans and cornbread), housed each other, and clothed each other. That country has died. I’ve been around 40+ years, and the attitude displayed by the teacher in the article, and you, is no different.
EFF YOU, SWINE, and the pig you rode in on!
Sorry, but they have morphed into our children's masters.
No ... it's time to annihilate the Bureaucrat-Educational Complex.
Educating children properly is far too important to allow government bureaucrats to be involved in the process at any level or in any way. Education must be privatized; government schools must be abolished.
The commie Democrats are transparent. This is the liberal viewpoint writ large.
They will tolerate criminal perps while crushing people who defend themselves and others. They are not even subtle about it. Perps and other misunderstood yutes get a free pass. But don’t you dare defend someone against a perp or you will pay the price.
I am on my knees thanking the Lord I was born in the 1950s and not later when I would be subject to this communist idiocy.
I have no representation and damn near have no country left. The communist takeover is nearly complete and our failure to un-elect Obama is just their latest victory.
People say “fight back”. They communists own the schools and colleges, own the media, own the dependent class, own the unions, and own Hollywood. How do we fight back against that?
When America ceased to be a moral nation, we ceased to be a free nation and both conditions are rabidly growing worse. Obama has his orders from those behind George Soros and he is completing his transformation of America into hard socialism.
Good quote; thanks. :)
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