I wish I got $15 million every time I got called to the principals office.
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#32This makes no sense. The standard award for one death is $8m. In no world is what he went through equal two people losing their lives.
You obviously haven't been around the internet too long, if another kid takes a apart a clock and puts it in a briefcase he could easily cause $15 million in damages from cultural appropriation alone.
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#33I encourage everyone to dig into this story a bit more. This family acted in a provocative way, and now they to attempt to punish the school and taxpayers.
> This family acted in a provocative way Lucky for them, then, that the school and police were as racist as his family expected, and they walked right into his trap.
exactly. if the school conducted itself in a humane and respectful manner in the first place there would never have been an incident at all, which is exactly the point. there should have never been an incident at all.
regardless of whether or not mohammed and his family were well-prepared to exploit the media for a favorable narrative, they were still wronged.
even if they deliberately provoked the incident, they were still wronged.
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#34This thread makes me want to stop coming to HN.
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#35Sorry, that seems opportunistic. I felt bad for him, but no way he was scarred to the tune of $15 million. Even the bad experience had a major upside - he was offered an internship to Twitter and an invitation to the White House. Schools are budget-deprived enough without adding frivolous lawsuits to the mix. In this case everyone involved in suspending him should have been seriously reprimanded and an apology given…
> Schools are budget-deprived enough without adding frivolous lawsuits to the mix. I'm sorry, in what way is this frivolous?
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#36I encourage everyone to dig into this story a bit more. This family acted in a provocative way, and now they to attempt to punish the school and taxpayers.
> This family acted in a provocative way Lucky for them, then, that the school and police were as racist as his family expected, and they walked right into his trap.
This had nothing to do with race. Children have gotten into serious trouble just for drawing guns (see links below). This is a result of "zero tolerance" policies which have been in place for a while now.
This child repeatedly brought out a clearly provocative object which he didn't even make and which looked like a count down timer in a small container. He also ignored e very single teacher who politely asked him to put it away. Until finally one teacher got freaked out enough to take action.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2486036/Eight-year-o...
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/13-year-old-suspended-for-doodli...
I don't agree with his arrest just like I don't agree with those kids getting into trouble for drawing guns. But to try to paint this as a race issue is plainly ignorant at best.
When you look at the details of this case (the father who is a Sudanese politician, the sister who tried something similar a few years ago, Mark Cuban saying that when he was talking to him he was being fed lines and told what to say, the fact that he didn't make the clock and has not even a cursory knowledge of electronics commensurate with his age or skill - claiming in an interview to 'solder' CPUs, etc.) then it becomes clear what this was really about.
I feel sorry for the child because it is clear that his father orchestrated all of this.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
I couldn't disagree more. Schools & cities both ought to live in fear of lawsuits to stop this kind of nonsense from occuring as a kneejerk reaction and give common sense an opportunity to prevail.
Well, it allows certain opportunistic individuals to claim he's just in it for the money (and it does look rather bad, although I'm certainly not that reactionary). It comes as a charge to taxpayers, as well. Also, I find the phrase "live in fear" to be a little... strong. Is that really what you meant?
At 15 mil, how is it anything but opportunistic?
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#38Internet outraged to lose boy hero.
Meanwhile Ahmed laughs all the way to the bank.
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#39Sorry, that seems opportunistic. I felt bad for him, but no way he was scarred to the tune of $15 million. Even the bad experience had a major upside - he was offered an internship to Twitter and an invitation to the White House. Schools are budget-deprived enough without adding frivolous lawsuits to the mix. In this case everyone involved in suspending him should have been seriously reprimanded and an apology given…
> Schools are budget-deprived enough without adding frivolous lawsuits to the mix. I'm sorry, in what way is this frivolous?
In that getting called into the office for your homemade 'clock' is not a big deal, and certainly not a $15m big deal.
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#40Seems like an effective way to teach the state not to be so racist/reactionary. Assuming he wins. Of course the lawyers will no doubt take most of it.
No, it signals that the only way to get ahead is to rent seek and ask oppressed instead of working hard to make the world a better place. I don't know how you think it's racist? The police could just have just as well thought it was a bomb, this just in timed bombs actually do look like bombs and the police were probably just being overly cautious. It's not like there haven't been students that want to blow up their teachers.