RE: 14 y/o Muslim student arrested for bringing "bomb" to school[It was a Clock]
September 20, 2015 at 9:24 am
(This post was last modified: September 20, 2015 at 9:25 am by Neo-Scholastic.)
Those of us who were a little geeky still have memories of dumb teachers doing dumb things to us because they didn't understand the geeky kinds of things we did. I got in trouble for writing a computer game for a DECwriter in 1980. Why? Because it was too violent. Who cares that I was learning to code all on my own. So naturally we all want to project our experiences of being mistreated onto this kid. I had the same response: dumb school officials over-reacting. But there's more to this story.
He disassembled the clock.
He rearranged the parts into a pencil box to make it look like a bomb.
He lied to a teacher by saying he made it.
The teacher told him to put it away.
He kept showing it around.
He had it on and set to sound the alarm while in school.
He was passive-aggressive to the school authorities and police.
His father jumps to the microphone with CAIR to cry racism.
Sorry, if I'm a little bit skeptical. There's a right way to do things and a wrong way. My folks would have told me that they didn't care if the teacher was over-reacting or not. The fact remains, it was a stupid thing to do. And its even more stupid in a post 9/11 Columbine world. He may be smart but he's still an idiot.
He disassembled the clock.
He rearranged the parts into a pencil box to make it look like a bomb.
He lied to a teacher by saying he made it.
The teacher told him to put it away.
He kept showing it around.
He had it on and set to sound the alarm while in school.
He was passive-aggressive to the school authorities and police.
His father jumps to the microphone with CAIR to cry racism.
Sorry, if I'm a little bit skeptical. There's a right way to do things and a wrong way. My folks would have told me that they didn't care if the teacher was over-reacting or not. The fact remains, it was a stupid thing to do. And its even more stupid in a post 9/11 Columbine world. He may be smart but he's still an idiot.
