Student hero expelled for saving friend's life

[fish_doc]

16-year-old Chris Medina, a student at Spring Valley High School (Clark County School District), went to watch a fight after school. The one-on-one battle didn't happen but an assault by an armed gang did. Chris beat an attacker off of a friend and dragged him into a nearby store. He was suspended and then expelled for being involved in a gang activity.

His father, Joseph Medina, is appealing the expulsion, maintaining his son is not a gang member but a hero. Some 280 classmates have signed a petition to bring Chris Medina back to school.

"My son risked his life to save the life of a student," said Joseph Medina, a real estate agent. "And this is how you're going to reward my kid? You're assuming that he's in a gang."

School officials said Chris Medina violated district regulations that prohibit students from causing physical injury and engaging in criminal gang activity.
The attacker was using a hammer to beat Chris's friend on the head and back. Chris was struck twice with the handle of the hammer before punching the gangster in the face and dragging his friend to safety in a retail store.

After the teenager hit Corado on the head, "the other Asians pulled out bats, pipes, crowbars and other things to do mass destruction. ... There was blood everywhere," one student wrote.
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Principal Robert Gerye, who declined to comment on the incident, recommended his expulsion. The department director of pupil personnel services accepted the decision and recommended that Chris Medina attend Southwest Behavior High School.
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Las Vegas Detective Mike Craig investigated the fight and wrote a letter on Chris Medina's behalf on April 20 stating, "Nothing within the scope of my investigation indicated that Christopher is involved or associated with a gang at this time."

He was a victim who was injured when he tried to prevent injury to his friend, wrote Craig, who did not return calls from the Review-Journal.
There were gangs involved, therefore it was a gang activity. Chris hit another student. Both of these demand expulsion under the district's zero tolerance policies. The actual circumstances don't matter a bit to the administrators.

[Shaggy]

Crazy!!

[Lexus]

Idiots, it just shows kids its not worth is to save someone's life!

[guppyart]

My thinking is unless your on the schools property during school hours the school has no rights do tell you what to do in your private life. If this had happened near where I live he would probaly be called a hero. Cause if I was watching a friend or anyone for that matter I would have got in there and helped the save the victim

[(RC)]

That's his side of the story. I'm sure the kid he hit to save his friend tells the story a little different. The school has a zero tolerant policy. Now it's his word against the other kids so they expelled the whole bunch involved. It's not like they put him in jail. He's just going to miss a little school. He shouldn't have been there to "watch" a fight in the first place.


RC

[fish_doc]

The thing is this did not happen on school property. How much of your lives are schools now allowed to run. Its like getting fired from work for drinking at a bar on a saturday when you dont even have to be back at work till monday. Schools seem to be more and more trying to run the lives of the students. The problem is many parents allow this because they dont want to play parent in their own kids life. If someone else wants to deal with the problem they think go ahead. If they dont want kids getting hurt during study hall and breaks they need to run a closed campus. No one can leave the property until after school is out. Then they dont have to worry about if it is there job to keep the kid safe during school hours and angry parents if somthing were to happen.

[(RC)]

The problem with the closed campus is the same parents that don't believe there kid could do anything wrong scream at the school because the kids don't like it and the parents can't deal with thier own kids so it's easier to ******************** about anything the kid doesn't like. The biggerst problem we have today is the huge nuumber of "parents" that don't know how to deal with their kids. They think everyone else is responsable for raising thier kids and buying the kids what ever they "think" they need is being a parent. Kids never learn to be personaly responsable for anything because it's always someone elses fault.


RC

[cameraman_2]

Kids these days just need disicpline more than ever. They are just way to out of control because the court says you can't spank them. I believe they all need a little beatins here and there.

[fish_doc]

I believe they all need a little beatins here and there

At least 3 a day.
one for what they did - One for what they are doing - and one for what they will do.

[Lexus]

Suspension is a joke, you get a damn day off.

[Mr Aquarium]

I keep saying it,
We Have No Rights Anymore.......

[fish_doc]

We Have No Rights Anymore.......

sure you do.. You have the right to remain silent. anything you say.........

[Osiris]

You know, i believe that principal and school board deserve a good SMACK across the face. Question should have been:

Kid: "What would you have done in his situation?"

Princepal: " I woulda waited for the police and let the kid get pulverized."

Even the cops are on the side of the kid, i believe the gang should visit the person who even suggested the kid be expelled or whatever...

Any volunteers to be in the "Beating crap out of senseless people Gang"

LOL

[IloveCichlids]

I agree with the majority that the kid should not get expelled, that is ludacris. If he had not stepped in the other kid would have probably been beaten to death.

On the other hand, I agree and disagree about the school's role in private life or life outside of the school campus. There are instances when schools have authority to punish a student for an "indescresion" off of school property.

For instance, say a fight erupted after school and someone got hurt, mentally or physically. Then they come to school the next day or even worse, let it simmer for a couple days, plan out something horrible, then bring it to school grounds and then innocent students get involved or hurt. I believe by our societies quickness to support frivolous lawsuits that this is a product of that regimine.

Just my opine.

[IloveCichlids]

We Have No Rights Anymore.......

If you think that.... try living in Cuba or some other communist regime.

[Baby_Baby]

I think that is very wrong. The guy was being a good citizen, and plus he was defending himslef not just hitting the guy for no reason. I think that schools are getting outta control. They are always monitoring us. Can't they just put collars on us and get it over with?

[guppyart]

Originally Posted by Baby_Baby

I think that is very wrong. The guy was being a good citizen, and plus he was defending himslef not just hitting the guy for no reason. I think that schools are getting outta control. They are always monitoring us. Can't they just put collars on us and get it over with?

sssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh you might give them ideas

[Baby_Baby]

lol. they already make us wear ids. how much worse can it get?

[Lydia]

Originally Posted by (RC)

Kids never learn to be personaly responsable for anything because it's always someone elses fault.


RC

and parents dont believe their precious little kid would do anything wrong...an example is, when we were fixing up our house before we moved into it, it kept on getting "broken" into (the culprits were just removing a piece of glass that we didnt know was loose and then putting it back in)...one day when we got there to work on the house, dad saw the two kids that had been doing it putting the glass back in. he dropped all his stuff, and chased the kids. one kid got away, but dad got a good look at him. he caught the other kid. he got the kid to tell him his dads phone number by threatening to call the police and then called the kids dad. the kids dad came to pick his kid up and dad told him that we were missing some stuff so the dad, like a good dad, told his kid to bring the stuff back, apologized to dad, and made sure we got our stuff back. except for some, which was at the other kids house. the kid that dad caughts dad and that kid identified the other one, but when dad went to the other dad to get his stuff back, even though the first kid had told on his kid, AND the first kids dad had, the stupid dad told my dad that his kid would never do anything like that and that my dad didnt know what he was talking about...my dad even saw the kid and knew it was the one he hadnt been able to catch

now back when i was a kid......lol jk

[Baby_Baby]

parents say dumb stuff like that sometimes cuz they don't want to deal with their kids, and they don't wanna face facts that their kids are weirdos.