> Children are encouraged “specifically [to] not bring items to school that are prohibited.”
What, clocks? Or the NASA t-shirt he was wearing? (https://i.imgur.com/PMgDR7m.jpg)
14-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to School
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#12With such paranoia as this, you also can bring the inventive genius of a nation down.
The US has so much talent, but when such things will continue to manifest, the terrorists already have won!
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#13Why not link to the original news article instead of to a blog that quotes it?
Because at least for me, the dallasnews website has been pretty much down all morning.
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#14Stupid kid confused school with a place that supported learning and curiosity.
I'm pretty sure that I wouldn't make it through high school today.
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#15Say what you will but I would be slightly concerned if Ahmed Mohamed brought this to school http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/northwest-dall...
A circuit board? There is nothing dangerous about a circuit board. In case you didn't notice, every bit of electronics has one.
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#16A picture of the clock in question would have been nice for inquiring minds to see..
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#17Go into any Electrical Engineering department at any university and you'll find plenty of students with boxes filled with circuit boards and electronics. Everybody who's played with electronics knows that stuff is brittle and needs to be protected carefully. One wire coming loose renders your entire work obsolete and unlike software, there's no debugger to tell you where you potentially screwed up... Racial profiling…
That's not even the issue to me. It's like fine you "suspected" it. How difficult was it to not suspect it anymore? Like did the arrest and the accusations need to happen. It's almost like attempting to traumatize the kid and his peers for no good reason and for what? Security theater? Because he was brown or a Muslim and did not know that brown or Muslim people should not bring electronics that might be suspected with them to school because they should fear being suspected? Perhaps we can excuse his ignorance for not being old enough.
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#18It is definitely profiling and I bet his race had a lot to do with it.
But I think the same thing would've happened if I had brought such a device to school - having been a super dark dressed goth in school, the fear would've been it's a bomb.
Schools are generally very very extra worried about everything these days, suspending him was unnecessary but with it only being three days I don't see it being a terrible thing. The record will get set straight.
So then this just falls back to being unfortunate racial profiling.
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#19Engineering While Brown.
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#20This really needs to end in a civil lawsuit.