KILLEEN, Texas – A Texas mother is considering homeschooling her 15-year-old son after he was suspended by his alternative school for carrying a classmate having an asthma attack to the nurse.

Anthony Ruelas, 15, was in class Tuesday at Gateway Middle School in Killeen when a classmate began to have an asthma attack. Ruelas’ fifth period teacher emailed the nurse and was waiting for a response when the struggling student fell from her chair to the floor, KCEN reports.

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The girl gasped on the ground for about three minutes before Ruelas couldn’t take it anymore.

“Anthony proceeded to go over and pick her up, saying ‘f—k that we ain’t got time to wait for no email from the nurse,’” according his teacher’s referral to the principal’s office. “He walks out of class and carries the other student to the nurse.”

“I was like what? I’m suspended for this?” the eighth-grader told KCEN. “I was trying to help her.”

Ruelas’ mother, Mandy Cortes, told KHOU her son had been suspended before, so when she initially pick him up from school she “wasn’t trying to hear it.”

But after her son explained, she couldn’t believe it.

“I don’t, ya know, think he should have used that language, but as far as getting suspended for walking out of class, he could have saved her life,” Cortes said.

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“Especially with it being an alternative school I feel like the kids hear enough of ‘they’re bad’ or their behavior, or you know, and for them to not be rewarded for really something that is brave,” she said. “He is a hero to me.”

He’s a hero to the girl who needed help, as well.

The teen texted Ruelas Wednesday to let him know she was better and thank him for taking action.

Despite the two-day suspension, Ruelas told KCEN he would “most definitely” do it again.

School officials would not comment on the incident. Instead, Killeen Independent School District Superintendent John Craft issued a lame prepared statement about student privacy rights.

Cortes said the debacle is frustrating, and the school’s bumbling bureaucracy has only made matters worse.

She said officials called her Wednesday morning demanding to know why Ruelas wasn’t in class and she had to remind them they suspended him for saving his classmate.

Cortes told KHOU the whole experience has convinced her to seriously consider homeschooling her son.

Hundreds of commenters online commended Ruelas for doing the right thing.

“Are u kidding me? As the mother of a severe asthmatic child, and I am an ER nurse, … I would shake this boy’s hand and tell him that he has a good heart and did the right thing,” Andrea Brown posted to Facebook. “Why was anyone stalling or waiting around if she was having an attack? They should be thanking him for intervening because the outcome could have been far worse for the girl.”

“We have got to stop this political correctness. The student picked her up and delivered her to the nearest medical care. Bottom line. He did the right thing. It’s stupid to think otherwise,” Mary McKinney wrote, garnering 491 “Likes.”

“If he broke the rules the reprimand him… with a 10 second lecture on what the protocol is, and THANK HIM for stepping up to save her life.”