Michigan student, 11, expelled after taking gun away from classmate to prevent unimaginable tragedy

A Michigan middle schooler courageously disarmed a gun-carrying classmate, but was expelled when he failed to alert a teacher immediately, his furious mother claimed.Sakir, a seventh grader at the Dwight Rich School of the Arts, allegedly spotted his classmate carrying the gun during the school day and jumped into action to protect his peers, according to reports.“Sakir’s instinct was not to run away — it was to protect his classmates,” according to a GoFundMe set up for the young student and his family.“…preventing what could have been an unimaginable tragedy.”However, Everett was accused of possession of a weapon and banned from the middle school.

“They kicked him out of school for the whole year,” the boy’s mother, Savitra McClurkin, told local outlet WILX on Friday.The heroic 11-year-old’s actions unfolded back in May, but he didn’t tell his teachers out of fear of getting in trouble.It was not clear when he received the punishment.“He didn’t want to implicate himself in it, nor did he want to tell on the person that actually brought the firearm,” McClurkin said.

“Because he knows firearms aren’t supposed to be in school.”Everett credited his hunting background for his knowledge of safely taking the gun apart.Sakir is an “A/B student” and is active in sports at the public magnet school, according to the crowdfunding page.The frustrated mother blasted the Lansing School District for kicking her son out of the school.“They are setting my son up for failure.

They’re setting him up to being a statistic and I’ve been doing everything in my will and my power to keep him from that,” she said.Everett is now enrolled in a non-accredited online program to keep him on track in the curriculum until his educational future is decided.“Online schools are honoring [the school district’s] decision.Nor did they provide us a different resource or a different avenue to go,” McClurkin said.

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