This is the logical result of "if you see something, say something."
And, I can assure you that almost any science fair project found in a bathroom or under a car would look suspicious. So would a backpack or cardboard box.
14-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to School
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#572A story. So, this thirteen year old kid with a Syrian father once got flagged up by Hewlett Packard because he was ordering electronic components. I'm sure you can imagine what happened next... Yeah, Bill Hewlett offered him a summer job, he got hooked on making stuff, wound up founding a company out of his garage with his buddy Steve Wozniak, and created the biggest electronics company in the world. Thank goodness h…
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Wrong decade...
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It is as stupid as it sounds. 4 year old will listen to instructions and if they disobey you take away toys or have silent time, etc. But signing something? That's just really stupid. It's not enforceable and not even understandable.
While the scenario described does sound ridiculous, I disagree that it's "not even understandable." (My understanding is that you meant the four year old wouldn't understand?) Many toddlers younger than three could grasp the idea of signing something as a promise to do that thing in the future. A three or four year old could easily understand it.
sorry I meant not understandable as a blanket policy especially since this is at a school.
I would expect the school (being a place with lots of teachers) to understand that you get the parent to sign the document - with legally enforceable terms that the parent is responsible for whatever the kid does.
That's what a kindergarden - grade 8 elementary school field trip permission form looks like!
I'm sure they've made and processed hundreds of thousands of these forms before. It's just not understandable why they wouldn't do something similar with this open house.
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#574Looks like he's been invited to the White House:
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#575Earlier quoted context omitted.
Great list. How about teacher Julie Amero, whose browser was apparently hijacked, possibly while students used it while she was out of the room resulting in students seeing nudity briefly and uninentionally [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut_v._Amero
> Amongst the most noteworthy, Detective Lounsbury stated in the trial that a red link proved that Amero had deliberately clicked on the link to visit a particular pornographic page. Huge blown up pictures were shown to the jury. In fact, forensic investigation showed that the link visited color for the browser was olive green. The link was colored red because there was a font tag on the page turning the link red. I…
I would think some enterprising employment lawyer would smell blood and there would then be a wrongful termination suit.
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#576Apparently the authorities have determined that the best way to stop terrorism is to discourage any manifestation of personal intelligence, so that the population turns into mindless sheep. "If you don't know how to make a clock, you won't know how to make a time bomb" is their reasoning. It is seriously disturbing. I am reminded of stories of kids opening a command prompt and being accussed of "hacking", only this i…
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
A wise tool to be employed by the malicious.
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#577President Obama has extended an invite to Ahmed to show his clock off at the White House: https://twitter.com/potus/status/644193755814342656
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Of course, people would rather that part of his heritage weren't brought up, leaving us with Michael Fassbender portraying him on the big screen.
Really, that's why? Or is it because most people would rather watch a movie where the actors look like the characters? I don't know of any Syrian actors that look like Steve Jobs. And I definitely don't know of any Syrian actors who could play him as well as Fassbender could.
Only Michael Fassbender looks nothing like Steve Jobs.
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#579A story. So, this thirteen year old kid with a Syrian father once got flagged up by Hewlett Packard because he was ordering electronic components. I'm sure you can imagine what happened next... Yeah, Bill Hewlett offered him a summer job, he got hooked on making stuff, wound up founding a company out of his garage with his buddy Steve Wozniak, and created the biggest electronics company in the world. Thank goodness h…
Biological father. His (adoptive) father was white, and Jobs didn't look middle eastern , the key part. There's a whole spectrum of skin tones within ethnicities that affects how you are treated in the US more than where your parents originate.
> There's a whole spectrum of skin tones within ethnicities that affects how you are treated in the US more than where your parents originate.
That is so true. Personal I look very very stereotypically Scots/Irish but I also have a lot of Native American ancestry. As sad as it makes me to say I've had a far easier path in live than my cousins who were undeniably Native but from an extremely similar background and level of income growing up, in a 10 mile radius of each other. I was certainly treated differently then them.
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> Jobs didn't look middle eastern Jobs didn't look stereotypically middle eastern.
> Jobs didn't look stereotypically middle eastern. No kidding. Many people in the Middle East are completely "white", by every definition. In fact, it's amusing that the word "Caucasian" has been corrupted into a euphemism for "white", given where the word comes from....[0]. (Most people who are Caucasian aren't even white!) While we're on the topic, the most pale and fair-skinned people I've met in my life were not…
For added comedy points, the word 'aryan' means Indo-Iranian, at least according to Tolkien, who I suspect knows a thing or two about the meanings of words. http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/03/i-have-no-ancestors-of-...