A Michigan mother is sounding off about how her 11-year-old son disarmed a classmate who brought a gun on campus, but was still expelled because he didn’t immediately notify his teachers about the incident.

Savitra McClurkin’s son, Sakir, is a seventh grader who attended Dwight Rich School of the Arts in Lansing, Michigan.

But at the tail end of the 2025 spring semester, he was kicked out following an incident in which one of his classmates brought a weapon on school grounds.

According to WLNS and Lansing State Journal, an unloaded and disassembled gun was found on campus on May 22, toward the end of the school day. School administrators sent an alert to staff members and parents confirming the weapon had been recovered, and after some investigation, local police ended up arresting a 12

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