Days after a Rancho Cucamonga High School teacher was placed on administrative leave for reportedly bringing a firearm to campus, parents and students have organized a rally, scheduled for Friday morning, to support the educator.

“I want his name to be cleared I want the bashing and slandering of his reputation to be dissolved,” said Ashley Biering, a friend of the educator and the person who organized Friday morning’s rally.

Biering said she’s received hundreds of notes supporting the teacher — who she said is also a survivor of the Route 91 Music Festival mass shooting in Las Vegas — and expects a good turnout Friday in front of the school located at 11801 Lark Drive.

“He’s a hero,” she said. “He carried a guy a mile to safety and he and his wife helped a group of nine young women.”

The FBI received a tip advising the unidentified teacher and reserve officer had brought a firearm on campus, according to Chaffey Joint Union High School District Superintendent Mathew Holton.

The federal officials contacted San Bernardino County Sheriff’s and district officials Tuesday, May 7, who removed the teacher from campus and placed him on administrative leave, according to district officials.

“The California Gun-Free School Zone Act makes it a crime for a person to possess a firearm on or within 1,000 feet of a school campus,” according to a statement from the district. “However, the San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department informed the district that the law makes an exception for certain individuals, including reserve peace officers who are authorized to carry a firearm.”

Despite the exception, the district maintains a policy regulation that prohibits any employee, besides the district’s director of safety and campus officers, from bringing firearms onto school premises.

But according to Biering, the legal exception supersedes the district policy and shows the teacher did nothing wrong.

While many on social media support the teacher’s actions, there are some who worry a student could access the firearm.

“The gun had been on campus for a while,” she said. “He deals with criminals on a daily basis, I’m pretty sure he could take a student down.”

The rally will take place between 7 and 9 a.m., Friday May 10.