Webloggin » High School Recruits Mentally Ill Teacher Who Attacked Military Base

Wielding two butcher knives bought at Wal-Mart and vodka bottles to use as explosives, Tahmeed Ahmad chanted ”Death to America” and told Homestead Air Reserve Base guards he wanted to kill soldiers.

But Ahmad was no terrorist, authorities believe.

Rather, the Miami Central High School math teacher wanted to ”commit suicide by cop” when he attacked military policemen stationed at the west gate just before midnight Sunday, the FBI said.

Ahmad did not get his wish. One officer fired his handgun at Ahmad. He missed. - Miami Herald

Ok, I buy this one, he isn’t a terrorist. His mother indicated that he is mentally ill and recently spent time in a mental institution. Which begs the question, why aren’t our schools doing more to protect our children? They deserve more. In fact the school is actually going to keep him employed after he is released.

I’m sure that legalities and privacy laws protect the teacher but who is protecting the children?

Police quickly arrested Ahmad, 22, whose mother says is mentally ill and had recently been in a mental institution. The FBI charged him Monday with assaulting a U.S. government employee.

Ahmad is in his first year teaching math at Miami Central High, 1781 NW 95th St.

A federal judge will decide Thursday whether he can be released pending trial.

If he is freed, Ahmad will be reassigned away from children, said John Schuster, a schools spokesman.

Ahmad had been added to a federal terrorist watch list, but officials had long since concluded he was not a credible threat, Davis said.

He graduated in June from City College of New York’s honors program in mathematics, his mother, Gulnaz Ahmad, said from East Flushing, N.Y.

She said her son was a smart, quiet man who was elected as a student government-faculty liaison three years in a row. He was born in Kuwait and is a naturalized U.S. citizen.

He had been recruited to teach by Miami-Dade schools. Ahmad also wanted to coach football.

But last week, a mental hospital called to say Ahmad, who had been on psychiatric medication, tried killing himself but didn’t know how.

Perhaps Ahmad didn’t exhibit any signs or there was nothing in his background to indicate he had problems before he was recruited. However now is an entirely different scenario. What in the world is wrong with an education system that would put a mentally ill person, suicidal, in proximity to children?

We need to wrestle our nations schools away from the morons who are now in charge. The only way to do that is with vouchers. Parents need choice and schools need competition. It’s time to put parents back into the formula before the next generation of Americans wastes away under the inept charge of those currently running the show.