High school student disarms gunman…gets suspended?

[gejoslin]

HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT DISARMS GUNMAN…GETS SUSPENDED?

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A Florida high school student wrestled a loaded gun away from another teen on the bus ride home this week and was slapped with a suspension in return.
The 16-year-old Cypress Lake High student in Fort Myers, Fla. Link Removed there was “no doubt” he saved a life after grappling for the loaded .22 caliber revolver being aimed point-blank at another student on Tuesday.
“I think he was really going to shoot him right then and there,” said the suspended student, not identified by WFTX because of safety concerns. “Not taking no pity.”
The student said the suspect, a football player, threatened to shoot a teammate because he had been arguing with his friend.
Authorities Link Removed the weapon was indeed loaded, and the arrest report stated the suspect,Link Removed Quadryle Davis, was “pointing the gun directly” at the other student and “threatening to shoot him.”
That’s when, the teen told the station, he and two others tackled the suspect and wrestled the gun away. The next day, all three were suspended.
“How they going to suspend me for doing the right thing?” he asked.
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The school’s referral slip said he was given an “emergency suspension” for being involved in an “incident” with a weapon. Lee County School District spokesman Alberto Rodriguez said in a statement that “If there is a potentially dangerous situation, Florida law allows the principal to suspend a student immediately pending a hearing.”
“Those kids had to fight for their lives,” the mother of the suspended teen said. “All the kids that was involved in this they should have a pat on their backs because they did the right thing to save someone from burying their child.”
The suspended teen is allowed to go back to school Monday.
Meanwhile, the student accused of pointing the weapon has been charged only with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon “without intent” to kill.
The sheriff’s office said the investigation is ongoing and that the charges are “based on our findings at this time.”
Somebody needs to make the school officials understand that fighting to save your live and/or some one else's life as positive action. Not a reason to suspend the life saver!
Do y'all think school officials are just too liberal?

 

[PaidTriot]

Decisions like these are what produces mass murderers.

 

[walt629]

Political correctness run amuck.

I hear this morning that now there is "A prominent child psychologist" suggesting that kids that are suspended from school will do worse in school that those that aren't so now kids should not be suspended.

What kind of bull hockey is that?

 

[XD357grandpa]

And we worry about the mental state of the shooter? This principal and others like him need the NEA crap kicked right out of them. And what does a prominent child physcologist no about anything including children except what they have been taught by other prominent child physcologists?

 

[Andrew49417]

High school student disarms gunman…gets suspended?

It could be that the student was suspended for his own safety... Not so much as a punishment. Police officers are suspended all the time when involved in a shooting incident. Sometimes, I think parents and students take it the wrong way. Just saying.

 

[Dunewolf]

If this had been my kid - id tell the principle to go **** themselves and pull my kid from that school.. Homeschool or something..

When I was in grade school, I got into a fight 6 vs me. I fought back and won (in such as that I got away without any serious body harm or much harm at all) went back to class and was ready to proceed with day. 5-10mins into class im called to the office, 4 of the 6 where there and complained I started it, its my fualt, etc.. ofcourse idiot principle believed them, because I didnt report it immediately. So i got suspended, eventually I ended up transferred to another school.. but meh hated that guy to this day.. if I met him id tell him off cause it ruined my friendships I had..

 

[tricolordad]

Good luck making the school take responsibility. They invented the entitlement class. In their minds, you owe them that suspension.

@Dunewolf I got suspended for sexually harassing a girl in a class I wasn't even taking my junior year. I was also home sick that day. My foster parents accused me of sneaking off to school. I laughed my ass off when I found out i had gotten suspended the next day. I got a week added on for not writing an apology letter. I hope my kids have it better.

 

[SR40c]

This country is so screwed.

 

[rifleshooter474]

Maybe his school would have been happy, if he had just let the student shoot him. I am sure the school would have made the Obama anti-firearm bunch happy, they could make it into a grand example of "HOW GUNS KILL PEOPLE". I can just see NBCs David Gregory on Meet the Press, holding up a handgun in one hand and a 30rd AR-15 Mag. in the other. Have I missed anything?

 

[gejoslin]

Good luck making the school take responsibility. They invented the entitlement class. In their minds, you owe them that suspension.

@Dunewolf I got suspended for sexually harassing a girl in a class I wasn't even taking my junior year. I was also home sick that day. My foster parents accused me of sneaking off to school. I laughed my ass off when I found out i had gotten suspended the next day. I got a week added on for not writing an apology letter. I hope my kids have it better.

I feel for ya, really do. When I was going to school (yeah, 8 miles uphill both ways, in the snow) they were supposed to be teaching us to be patriots and good citizens. Of course we had no rights because we were minors. Rules like no long hair, had to wear socks, belts and tucked in shirts. We would question those rules and the only reason was got was "because it was school policy". This is why our generation rebelled as much as we did. That and being young, which of course is wasted on the young.
I was always getting suspended for one thing or another and being talked to like I was their subject and they were King. When called in to principals office for something one of my children had done and they had the gall to speak to me like I was one of their students! Well, as you might imagine that didn't go over very well with me. After informing them I was an adult , just like them and not in their charge, the tone of voice changed and we would get down to the business of why I was there in the first place.
Schools now days are like a little kingdom. They're Kings and the kids are peons or less. The rules are theirs to make and for kids to follow. Right or wrong they're judge, jury and executioner. The parents have to abide by them or take them to court. Just like I'm sure the three kids parents will have to do!
Sorry about the rant. Just hate being talked down to and seeing the injustice those three kids are having to endure. Just like your run in with school system

 

[tricolordad]

I feel for ya, really do. When I was going to school (yeah, 8 miles uphill both ways, in the snow) they were supposed to be teaching us to be patriots and good citizens. Of course we had no rights because we were minors. Rules like no long hair, had to wear socks, belts and tucked in shirts. We would question those rules and the only reason was got was "because it was school policy". This is why our generation rebelled as much as we did. That and being young, which of course is wasted on the young.
I was always getting suspended for one thing or another and being talked to like I was their subject and they were King. When called in to principals office for something one of my children had done and they had the gall to speak to me like I was one of their students! Well, as you might imagine that didn't go over very well with me. After informing them I was an adult , just like them and not in their charge, the tone of voice changed and we would get down to the business of why I was there in the first place.
Schools now days are like a little kingdom. They're Kings and the kids are peons or less. The rules are theirs to make and for kids to follow. Right or wrong they're judge, jury and executioner. The parents have to abide by them or take them to court. Just like I'm sure the three kids parents will have to do!
Sorry about the rant. Just hate being talked down to and seeing the injustice those three kids are having to endure. Just like your run in with school system

Hmmm so it's always been that way...guess that's one of the reasons they say 'history repeats itsself.'

My favorite thing about school was them telling us to "celebrate diversity and be unique." So i decided to draw a cat sitting on a table (no, kitty! Get down!) instead of a barn from a 45 degree left angle with partial shade across the front side and got kicked out of art class. It was a bitchin picture of a cat if I do say so myself.

 

[escapedthematrix]

Schools are the indroctination center for living in the coming new world order. There, the students are conditioned about the first rule..... Learned helplessness. Do not defend yourselves. Rely on the state for your personal security and always submit to authority no matter how rediculous it may seem. This kid is a hero and he gets the shaft. Cool......

 

[AndeyHall]

High school student disarms gunman…gets suspended?

http://youtu.be/zDZFcDGpL4U Tells it all!

 

[nontechguy]

The only way this crap will stop is if we sue the **** out of them.
Maybe after a few suits that cost the schools severely, they might get the message.
Sue them individually as well, for harrassment at the very least.

 

[AndeyHall]

The only way this crap will stop is if we sue the **** out of them.
Maybe after a few suits that cost the schools severely, they might get the message.
Sue them individually as well, for harrassment at the very least.

The problem there is that they are getting sued...by all the lefty parents who get scared when a 2nd grader chews his pop-tart into the shape of a gun and stuff like that...

 

[foxytwo]

I am suprised that charges were not brought against him for illegal possession of a firearm after he took it away from the punk.

 

[Tea Man]

It could be that the student was suspended for his own safety... Not so much as a punishment. Police officers are suspended all the time when involved in a shooting incident. Sometimes, I think parents and students take it the wrong way. Just saying.

My thoughts exactly. It's a right thing to do for his safety.

 

[blarg]

maybe he was suspended because he didn't follow DHS guidelines which clearly state students are to use scissors in such a situation.

 

[escapedthematrix]

My thoughts exactly. It's a right thing to do for his safety.

Suspension usually has a negative connotation. The kid is not a cop and no one was shot thanks to him so it's not the same type of situation as the police example. Why couldn't the principal visit the student personally and thank him and tell him to take a couple of days off school? This story does give the impression that his actions were wrong and I think it sends the message to the students of not getting involved in protecting your peers.

 

[Deanimator]

It could be that the student was suspended for his own safety... Not so much as a punishment. Police officers are suspended all the time when involved in a shooting incident. Sometimes, I think parents and students take it the wrong way. Just saying.

So then similarly, if somebody wrestles the gun from a robber in a liquor store holdup, he should be ARRESTED... "for his own safety", RIGHT?