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2:25am June 4, 2013

karalianne:

ramblings-of-a-crazy-man:

cure-krismoth:

pathometric:

nationalpost:

No heroes allowed: Calgary student, 13, reprimanded for defending his classmate against a knife-wielding bully
Briar MacLean was sitting in class during a study period Tuesday, the teacher was on the other side of the room and, as Grade 7 bullies are wont to do, one kid started harassing another.

“I was in between two desks and he was poking and prodding the guy,” Briar, 13, said at the kitchen table of his Calgary home Friday.

“He put him in a headlock, and I saw that.”

He added he didn’t see the knife, but “I heard the flick, and I heard them say there was a knife.”

The rest was just instinct. Briar stepped up to defend his classmate, pushing the knife-wielding bully away.

The teacher took notice, the principal was summoned and Briar went about his day. It wasn’t until fourth period everything went haywire.

“I got called to the office and I wasn’t able to leave until the end of the day,” he said.

That’s when Leah O’Donnell, Briar’s mother, received a call from the vice-principal.

Ms. O’Donnell was politely informed the school did not “condone heroics,” she said. Instead, Briar should have found a teacher to handle the situation.

“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.’ ”

Instead of getting a pat on the back for his bravery, Briar was made to feel as if he had done something terribly wrong. The police were called, the teen filed a statement and his locker was searched. (Mike Ridewood for National Post)

what the hell?

Whoa, whoa, wait

“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.

“She said yes, but that’s beside the point.” So basically she cared more about the fact a guy was ‘acting heroic’ than the fact that one of her students could have fucking been killed.

Reminder that this in Canada,if ya didn’t know were Calgary is its in Alberta (the one with all the oil and horses) 

I get really sick of people thinking Canada is perfect, im actually told I shouldn’t complain because Canada is a liberal paradise an nothing goes wrong here ahaha no. so here is me adding this to my list of reasons why Canada still does fucking suck.

Fucking Calgary School District. What the hell?

(I disagree that Canada sucks, but there are definitely some serious issues and this is one of them.)

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