Hero High School Student
Disarms Gunman
. . . Gets Suspended
Disarms Gunman
. . . Gets Suspended
Why would a school punish a student for his bravery? A selfless act of bravery that surely prevented bodily harm - and perhaps the deaths - of fellow students?
"A Florida high school hero who wrestled a loaded gun away from a football player threatening to shoot a teammate was himself suspended for three days".
The school attributed their suspension of the 16-year-old student to his "role in an incident where a weapon was present" which seems to put him in the same category as the gunman. Are you KIDDING ME??? Outrageous!
Sadly, this scenario is more the norm rather than the exception to the rule. Our nation is raising a generation afflicted with "Genovese syndrome" - people that not only stand by and do nothing but - that are now mandated to do so by the schools they attend.
Seriously? Are we really putting our children and our grandchildren into the hands of administrators that have such poor judgment?
I have never been a fan of following the crowd.
Never.
Never, ever.
When several family members sought membership in sororities or fraternities I was more than a little surprised. I thought that they were at the very least as smart - and as strong - as I was. The idea that they would subjugate their own opinions to that of the group was beyond foreign to me and I was disappointed in their judgment.
That feeling was reinforced when I learned of the shocking death of Drum Major Robert Champion a few years back. At the time his band's director, Julian White, referred to Robert in the Orlando Sentinel as a person that had a bright future and who had "a very fine drum major who was of excellent character."
He died needlessly as the result of injuries sustained from hazing. He died because there was no voice loud enough on that bus to object to the brutality of this hazing assault on a healthy young man. He died at the hands of his peers.
Thanks to the heroic act of that unnamed 16-year-old we are not mourning the loss of the gunman's target. Sadly, we continue to mourn the loss of persons with sound judgment, persons that would penalize those who act on their natural instincts to help others.
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