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Calgary student, 13, reprimanded for defending his classmate against a knife-wielding bully
National Post ^ | 5.31

Posted on 06/02/2013 12:50:59 PM PDT by Arthurio

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To: Arthurio

School administrator needs to be promptly unemployed in that profession. Permanent ban from ever setting foot on school property should be instituted against the individual as well.


41 posted on 06/02/2013 3:10:35 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Arthurio

The war on men.


42 posted on 06/02/2013 3:49:36 PM PDT by Jabba the Nutt (.Are they stupid, malicious or evil?)
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To: JRandomFreeper

I’m sorry to hear that. It’s a good thing you did with your grandchildren.


43 posted on 06/02/2013 4:00:16 PM PDT by James C. Bennett (An Australian.)
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To: Arthurio

The school is advocating a shabby moral standard, which I, for one, reject.


44 posted on 06/02/2013 4:09:47 PM PDT by popdonnelly (The right to self-defense is older than the Constitution.)
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In this case, I suspect that the Calgary Police Service were very close by. After all, there is a Tim Horton's approximately 0.2 km (1/8 mile) from the school!

Tim Horton's

45 posted on 06/02/2013 4:11:18 PM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was lost but now I'm found; blind but now I see.)
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Idiots.... “go get a teacher” (who btw probably probably knows less about self-defense and crisis mitigation than a 7th grader does) “even if a life is in imminent danger”. So much for teaching kids responsibility! God Bless this kid.


46 posted on 06/02/2013 4:12:20 PM PDT by FutureRocketMan (Santorum 2016)
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47 posted on 06/02/2013 4:14:57 PM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was lost but now I'm found; blind but now I see.)
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To: Arthurio

Just proves once again that to be a liberal requires that you put aside all wisdom and knowledge in the service of feel-good politics.


48 posted on 06/02/2013 4:44:44 PM PDT by Gumdrop
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Ms. O’Donnell was politely informed the school did not “condone heroics,” she said. Instead, Briar should have found a teacher to handle the situation

And what would the teacher do? Nothing but file a complaint after the fact. Maybe call the cops.

49 posted on 06/02/2013 5:05:32 PM PDT by LoneRangerMassachusetts (The meek shall not inherit the Earth)
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BRIAR IS BATMAN!


50 posted on 06/02/2013 5:21:06 PM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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“They phoned me and said, ‘Briar was involved in an incident today,’” she said. “That he decided to ‘play hero’ and jump in.” Ms. O’Donnell was politely informed the school did not “condone heroics,” she said. Instead, Briar should have found a teacher to handle the situation. “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.’

Does it get anymore moronic than this? He wasn't "playing" anything. Another student was being assaulted by a bully and he stepped in to counter the bully - it was very real. It was not a game. It isn't "beside the point" when someone is being assaulted in real time and he was the only one there in that moment that could do anything. He did not instigate, nor escalate, this situation.

And this teacher and principal are in charge of educating children when they don't have any sense themselves? I bet they claim if they have issues at their school it is due to "need for more funding."

51 posted on 06/02/2013 5:36:33 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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Not sure what you mean there. Are you referencing the government programs mill?


52 posted on 06/02/2013 6:02:16 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Funny thing happened on the way to the Constitution burning, Lefties rights were violated...)
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Liberal thugs don’t like Hero’s because those liberal thugs are the ones most likely to be stopped in there evil deeds.


53 posted on 06/02/2013 6:08:44 PM PDT by Revel
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Yup.


54 posted on 06/02/2013 6:15:00 PM PDT by Arthurio
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“They phoned me and said, ‘Briar was involved in an incident today,’” she said. “That he decided to ‘play hero’ and jump in.”

Ms. O’Donnell was politely informed the school did not “condone heroics,” she said. Instead, Briar should have found a teacher to handle the situation.

“What are we going to do if there are no heroes in the world? There would be no police, no fire, no armed forces. If a guy gets mugged on the street, everyone is going to run away and be scared or cower in the corner. It’s not right.”

55 posted on 06/02/2013 7:19:00 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: Arthurio

That reprimand is a badge of honor for him and an indelible stain of cowardice upon those who issued it.


56 posted on 06/02/2013 7:57:05 PM PDT by Trod Upon (Every penny given to film and TV media companies goes right into enemy coffers. Starve them out!)
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The part that bugs me the most is the locker search. On what grounds? Did they conclude he was ‘hopped up’ because he demonstrated courage? It seems to me they were fishing and/or punishing him. I’m surprised they didn’t take a DNA sample, fer cryin’ out loud.


57 posted on 06/02/2013 10:12:08 PM PDT by pluvmantelo (Clinton-traitor Bush-feckless Obama-traitor & feckless. What a disaster the boomer presidents have b)
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