Student Suspended for Stepping In to Save Student

In my previous blog (10 June), I share about the students of Muldrow, OK who petitioned to keep the Ten Commandments posted in their schools.  The account is of great personal encouragement … that God may be raising up a generation willing to stand firm for their faith.

 

Here is another account of a young person who does the right thing; but he gets suspended for saving the life of another student.

 

Last week, 7th grader Briar MacLean was sitting in a morning 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.  Later in the day, 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.

 

As I reported in my 31 May blog, public schools have an agenda, and it’s not based on learning objectives in keeping with the local community values.  Their agenda is to raise up a generation of leftist liberals that will help them transform this country into a socialist government.  The public schools don’t want heroic students!  Rather they want to mass produce robotic clones that carry out their progressive ideologies.

 

Rev. Dr. Kenneth L. Beale, Jr.

Chaplain (Colonel-Ret), U.S. Army

Pastor, Ft. Snelling Memorial Chapel