14-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to School

Post by leoc » Sun, Sep 20, 2015, 4:18 PM UTC

jerf wrote: post #707

leoc wrote: post #489

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> but plenty of white kids have gotten in plenty of trouble for stupid reasons too. Of course they have. However, the authorities everywhere don't consistently flip their wigs—certainly not as badly as this—every time a student does something like bringing in this project. So the fact that they wigged out badly in this particular case probably—not certainly, but really pretty likely—does have some relation to the fac…

You can not assert a consistent behavior off of one example. You're finding something you seem to be looking for. I was not kidding about being arrested and getting ordered to not touch computers for some period of time. Wigs have been flipped. I do not know that school administrators have "consistently" flipped out at white kids, either. I don't know what the baseline occurrence of these events are. My suspicion wou…

Post by fao_ » Wed, Sep 23, 2015, 8:51 PM UTC

logfromblammo wrote: post #984

fao_ wrote: post #888

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Unschooling is a subset of homeschooling. No, Unschooling is a subset of Home Education . So is Home Schooling. The distinction is important, since while both count as education, only one is school-at-home. The rest of the post is rather accurate though, although I would say that with the robotics, the unschooling parent would probably take the kids to a local Radioshack (Or Maplin's, if you're in the UK!) and buy a…

If you go to Radio Shack tomorrow, looking for robot parts, you're going to come back disappointed.

  buy a book on electronics, along with a few bits and bobs (motors, etc)