Kid Picks Up Girl Dying From An Asthma Attack and Carries Her to The Nurse...Suspended 2 Days For Leaving Class

KILLEEN, Texas — A Killeen mother is defending her son who was suspended after helping a fellow student having an asthma attack.

Anthony Ruelas, 15, said his eighth grade classmate was wheezing and gagging for three minutes Tuesday morning while no one did anything. But when Ruelas did do something, he apparently broke the rules.

Ruelas goes to Gateway Middle School, an alternative school in the Killeen Independent School District. Ruelas has been suspended before, but Tuesday was different.

“I wasn’t trying to hear it,” said Cortez. When she picked her son up from school for the suspension she told him,”No, they already told me what happened you walked out of class, and he was like ‘ok forget it’, but I can tell, ya know you know your kids, I could tell he was upset.”

The reason Ruelas walked out of class? He was carrying a friend to the nurse’s office.

“I was like what? I’m suspended for this? Like, I was trying to help her,” said Ruelas.

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People are probably expecting me to be fired up about this, especially considering a Top 3 Pet Peeve of mine is dumbass school administrators with no common sense. Suspending a kid for 2 days for carrying a suffocating classmate to the nurse, probably seems a little extreme to some. But let’s not jump to conclusions, there are two sides to every story.

I mean this was an “alternative school” right? Like for troublemakers? Just look at it, looks like a damn prison.

When the whole point of your school to instill discipline you can’t just have people breaking the rules all over the place. You let one kid leave class early to save a dying girl’s life, what then? You let EVERY kid from now until the end of time leave class whenever they feel like it if somebody is dying? Classic slippery slope argument.

And we’re acting like the teacher didn’t have everything totally under control herself:

According to Ruelas, the teacher was waiting on an email from the nurse and told the class to remain calm and stay in their seats. Fearing for the girl’s health, Ruelas didn’t listen and after several minutes of inaction, went against the teacher’s wishes to help his friend.

Ruelas’ referral form from his teacher reads in her handwriting:

“During 5th period another student complained that she couldn’t breathe and was having an asthma attack. As I waited for a response from the nurse the student fell out of her chair to the floor. Anthony proceeded to go over and pick her up, saying ‘f—k that we ain’t got time to wait for no email from the nurse.’ He walks out of class and carries the other student to the nurse.”

“I broke rules but, she need help, like she needed help,” said Ruelas.

I mean she wrote an email. What else do you want her to do? Not her fault the nurse is a slow typer.

Bottom line is there are rules for a reason. When you’re placed in a school like this and have a history of suspensions you should know better than saving lives of dying classmates. For all we know you hid her inhaler during 3rd period to induce an asthma attack so that you could carry her out and use it as an excuse to make your next drug deal. Goes both ways.

PS,

I actually laughed out loud picturing that scene in my head. A girl writhing on the floor turning blue slowly dying while the teacher sat at her desk staring at her Hotmail account.