Well, yeah, kinda. Care to define what a “fake bomb” looks like? And care to do that in a “zero tolerance” environment? The teachers don’t make the rules, they just get blamed if they don’t enforce them. And they get blamed with they do enforce them.
The kid was told to not show it to other teachers. Why do you think that is? I agree with those who said the Engineering teacher should have taken it and not let him cart it around school all day. Maybe the Eng Teacher didn’t know it had a timer that would go off, but the kid did.
Later in the day, the English teacher (not the Engineering guy) had to deal with a kid who had a beeping device in a brief case with a timer on it. In a zero tolerance environment.
To me, this is a fuck-up all 'round. The kid should not have taken what might look like a bomb (or a fake bomb) to school. The Engineering teacher should have known that a less technical teacher might freak out, and should have confiscated the device. The kid should have disabled the timer. Or left the damn thing in his locker.
This is like the perfect storm of what NOT to do as a teenage kid in High School. And the cops should have NOT cuffed the kid once they determine the device was not a real bomb. They could have detained him without the cuffs. And they should have called his parents IMMEDIATELY, not giving him the third degree like he’s already a criminal.
I can’t wait to watch the media fall all over themselves praising the next muslim who does something groundbreaking like changing a lightbulb or washing their hands or not fucking a goat.
The thing is, no one is gonna change their opinion on this story regardless of the facts. The people who think he was trying to create a fake bomb will still think that even if Jesus steps in and tells them different. The people who thinks he’s an innocent toddler will still think that even if he goes on Oprah and chants “death to america”.
Everyone has chosen a side and they’ll stick to that opinion under pain of death.
I’m just not impressed. When I was 14 I wasn’t glueing clocks back together and claiming to be the second coming of Edison for doing so.
Kid better learn what button to push for large fries…
Frankly, I blame the media for destroying this kids confidence. Right now, everyone is telling this average kid that he’s a special snowflake and the world is his oyster when all he’s shown is a below average intelligence and being handy with a screwdriver.
When his 15 minutes of fame are up and the media moves on to the next faux outrage he’s gonna be stuck wondering why assembling pre made clock parts pays about 2 dollars an hour in China if he’s even lucky enough to find a spot on their assembly line.
This is literally the best thing he’ll most likely ever achieve and that sucks for him…