De Marie is an honor student. She was honest in telling the school her hunting rifle, unloaded was in her car. Now her entire future is in jeopardy.
A few words from downstate Montana...
To all concerned,
It is terrible that you are considering expelling Demarie DeReu as I'm hearing on the news. I'm not in Flathead County, I'm in Libby in Lincoln County, However I am appalled that you are even putting this young lady through this ordeal at all.
It is my understanding that The controlling Montana law on this is 20-5-202, M.C.A., which says about expulsion for bringing guns "to school," "... the trustees may authorize the school administration to modify the requirement for expulsion of a student on a case-by-case basis." Further, "to school" is not defined in 20-5-2-202, but is at 45-8-361, M.C.A. as "... in a school building." Demarie's hunting rifle was cased and locked in the trunk of her car in the parking lot, but not "in a school building."
1) Demarie DeReu should be given no more than a verbal warning that she should not in the future pack her hunting rifle to school (I think she's learned that by now);
2) Demarie DeReu should be given an award for being honest and volunteering to school officials about the unloaded and cased hunting rifle locked in the trunk of her car;
3) Demarie DeReu should be held out as an example to other students for her participation in essential wildlife management in Montana ; and
4) That when the Legislature considers education funding in the upcoming legislative session, legislators will consider the outcome of this case as an example of how schools are using taxpayer resources in Montana .
2) Demarie DeReu should be given an award for being honest and volunteering to school officials about the unloaded and cased hunting rifle locked in the trunk of her car;
3) Demarie DeReu should be held out as an example to other students for her participation in essential wildlife management in Montana ; and
4) That when the Legislature considers education funding in the upcoming legislative session, legislators will consider the outcome of this case as an example of how schools are using taxpayer resources in Montana .
The circumstances as, as I understand them, warrant no action against this young lady, and in fact, warrant a commendation for her honesty and integrity.
Please end this appalling act of destroying a young future!!!
Phillip Erquiaga
82 Cedar Street Extension
Libby, Montana 59923
perquiaga@EaglesVoice.com
And if you have never been to Montana, it is another world. Bigger, wider, freer, wilder, the communities are always "60 miles from anywhere". There is game there. The crime rate is insignificant. Families raise their children with firearms. This girl hunts. It's a different way of life there.
She's an honor student.
This zero tolerance crap has got to go. She hasn't done anything wrong.
And if you have never been to Montana, it is another world. Bigger, wider, freer, wilder, the communities are always "60 miles from anywhere". There is game there. The crime rate is insignificant. Families raise their children with firearms. This girl hunts. It's a different way of life there.
She's an honor student.
This zero tolerance crap has got to go. She hasn't done anything wrong.
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