A middle schooler in Texas has been suspended and will have to spend 30 days in alternative school after sharing her inhaler with another student.On Tuesday, Indiyah Rush, 12, saw her classmate wheezing and gasping for breath in their gym class at Schrade Middle School in Garland, Texas. Being an asthmatic since five years old and knowing how difficult it is to handle the attack, she immediately offered her inhaler so as to ease the suffering of her classmate.
"Asthma gets worse by every second," said Rush in an interview. I was just trying to save her life, I didn't know I was doing anything bad," she added.
The two girls were immediately sent to the principal's office where Rush have been fined for a month in an alternative school, a punishment given for sharing controlled substances such as inhalers and prescribed drugs, according to Fox News.
On the other hand, Alexis Kyle, a seventh grade girl whom Indiyah Rush rescued also received punishment after the incident. "I'm getting in trouble. But the thing is, she's getting in trouble too. She tried to help me," Kyle said in an interview.
Kyle's family pled the case to the school officials, believing that the two girls are just but victims of the incident, knowing how helpless Alexis was at that moment.
"The little girl saved her life. We have had situations where she has been to ICU, so we know how bad her asthma is," said Michael Green, Alexis Kyle's stepfather, according to The Parenting.
