Heard a line on the old western “Rawhide” this morning - something to the effect of “Ya can’t only fight when the odds are in your favor”.You can when Colin Powell is Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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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Heard a line on the old western “Rawhide” this morning - something to the effect of “Ya can’t only fight when the odds are in your favor”.You can when Colin Powell is Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Parents who trust their kids to the government schools and the simpleton scum who populate them deserve whatever they get.
That statement perfectly demonstrates the danger of bureaucracies.
***Fascinating. A couple of years ago someone was telling me that the Chinese fell behind the West in terms of gunpowder, shipbuilding & navigation, the printing press, and science because the Chinese invented Bureaucracy. Now they are overtaking us because we are stuck on bureacracy. The enemy in either case is bureaucracy.
All the just outrage i think misses a point. It’s about authority. Any sort of behavior that usurps it is to be condemned. No different than here. That authority makes the person in charge feel indispensable as well as maintains the power of whatever structure is being defended.
The school is defending it’s authority. Had the intended victim been injured or worse it would merely be seen as part of the cost of maintaining the status quo.
Very warped and very much where we in the U.S. are today. We exist to serve, to be part of and not to think too much in certain areas.
I was at work at a Fortune 500 company when an employee fainted. Several of his friends revived him and assisted him to his desk. He was having an anxiety attack. He asked a buddy to take him home where he had medication. Another employee took his blood pressure. He was driven home by two employees who waited around to make certain he was okay.
When management found out they went ballistic. All employees who assisted were written up. We were instructed that the only treatment for an employee in distress was to call 911. This included choking or anything you could name.
Next NHL players in Canada will be required to wear tutus.
If I was the parent of the child that was reprimanded I’d be tempted to take out a newspaper advertisement
“Are you a nutcase looking for someone to kill? If so please consider Principal XXXXX at my son’s school. She has stated that she is opposed to bystanders intervening and you could whack her and get clean away. She is a Psychopaths dream. I will not pay you and am not asking you to do this but only stating that nobody would interfere”
This response by school officials is beyond belief.
Dear Sir. I believe your comment... ““Are you a nutcase looking for someone to kill? If so please consider Principal XXXXX at my son’s school.”...was taken from a different post. My comment is below.
Thank you.
I was at work at a Fortune 500 company when an employee fainted. Several of his friends revived him and assisted him to his desk. He was having an anxiety attack. He asked a buddy to take him home where he had medication. Another employee took his blood pressure. He was driven home by two employees who waited around to make certain he was okay.
When management found out they went ballistic. All employees who assisted were written up. We were instructed that the only treatment for an employee in distress was to call 911. This included choking or anything you could name.
I wonder if they have their motto over the school entrance:
“We don’t condone heroics in this school.”
Our liberal “leaders” will have to be replaced with people who have the capacity to think straight.
If you don’t use it please let me know and I will.
>>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.
But their job is to fill out reports and draw chalk outlines.
Liberals have been all upset in recent years about bullying. The lesson here is clear- We must stop bullying- as long as it is stopped by a government employee in a government approved way- you stupid citizens aren’t qualified to do it.
This happens in America...too
And the silly anti-bullying ads on TV tell teens to snitch to some adult rather than daring do anything themselves, and keep pushing adults until finally someone does something. Rather than stepping in yourself.
Kind of like calling 911 vs. actually using your own gun.
Why was he suspended? Very simple:
He was suspended simply because he acted like an “undomesticated” male and showed signs of his ancestors from the 1950’s and 60’s; a time before males were tamed.
It set a bad example for all of the other “pansies” in the school and could possibly get some of them thinking that males really did exist back then and just might try to regress from the feminist teachings of their teachers, TV, politics, and parents and become males once again.
Sets a DANGEROUS precedent and cannot be tolerated.
If I was the police chief there, I would have a cereomony to honor the kid. No way would I leave him and the other kids to the mercy of humanistic dunces.
I think for now I’ll be sticking with my current tagline. I look forward to seeing yours around the FR neighborhood.
That was written 70 years ago. I wonder what Lewis would have made of 2013? This news story suggestst that we expect our men without chests not to be virtuous, enterprising, and honourable, but passive.
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