This definitely goes into the ridiculous item label and might be cause for a new label "school officials stupidity", as a 15 year-old gunman identified by WVZN-TV as Quadryle Davis, who pointed a loaded weapon at another student and threatened to shoot him, was tackled by another kid and disarmed....... and the school officials suspended the kids that disarmed the guman!!!
Via Fox4 News, H/T TheBlaze
A 16-year-old Cypress Lake High School student, who wrestled a loaded revolver away from a teen threatening to shoot, is being punished.
The student grappled the gun away from the 15-year-old suspect on the bus ride home Tuesday after witnesses say he aimed the weapon point blank at another student and threatened to shoot him.
The student, who Fox 4 has agreed not to identify because he fears for his safety, says there's "no doubt" he saved a life by disarming the gunman. And for that he was suspended for three days.
"I think he was really going to shoot him right then and there," the student said. "Not taking no pity."
The student says he wrestled the .22 caliber RG-14 Revolver away from the suspect, a football player, who witnesses say threatened to shoot a teammate because he had been arguing with his friend.
"No doubt," the student said, "he was going to shoot him point blank."
The teen we spoke to and authorities both confirm the Revolver was loaded. According to the arrest report the suspect, who Fox 4 is not naming because he is a minor, was "pointing the gun directly" at another student and "threatening to shoot him."
That's when the student we spoke with says he and two others tackled the teen and wrestled away the gun. The next day the school slapped him with a three day suspension.
"It's dumb," he said. "How they going to suspend me for doing the right thing?"
According to the referral, he was suspended for being part of an "incident" where a weapon was present and given an "emergency suspension."
Cypress Lake High School officials should be ashamed of themselves. Where is the common sense of the district school officials and the school?
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.”
Contact Info:
Cypress Lake High School Address:
6750 Panther Ln.
Fort Myers,
FL 33919
Phone: (239) 481-2233
Lee County public School District
2855 Colonial Blvd.
Fort Myers, FL 33966
Phone: 239.334.1102 •
TTD/TTY: 239.335.1512
News account via video below:
This follows up on recent stories in the news about other schools and districts, in Texas, where students are being told they must refer to the 9-11 terrorist hijackers as "freedom fighters."
More public school idiocy by adults in charge that should know better.
• Second-grader suspended for two days because his teacher thought he shaped the strawberry, pre-baked toaster pastry into something resembling a gun. WBFF, the FOX affiliate in Baltimore, broke the story.
• Parents furious after two 6-year-old boys were suspended for using fingers as guns.
• Students were required to design socialist flags.
• California School Punishes Students for Wearing “Racist” American Flag Bandanas and Chanting “USA” at Basketball Game
• Junior high teacher tells kid to remove Marines t-shirt or get suspended.
Just think, these are the people in charge of a school system that is teaching our nation's children and they have absolutely no sense of right or wrong and no common sense.
[Update 3/4/13] Another example of teachers gone wild- "Actor Joseph C. Phillips: Teacher Threatened My Son, Questioned His Mental State Over Photo Of BB Gun."