Yeah, they totally manufactured this story out of nothing. It’s not like it was already front-page news, or anything. :dubious:
Getting down to “I bet the clock was a shock hazard!” is essentially saying you have no argument at all. The idea of “shock hazard” played no part in any of the decision making leading up to the kid’s arrest and people are just getting absurd in their reaching to try and justify it. The clock was a greater threat in that you could throw it at someone’s head than that someone was in danger of getting zapped.
Ah HA ! So you admit the kid’s a violent terrorist !
Forgot already, have we?
[Quote=Dallas Morning News]
It didn’t take Ahmed long to learn fluent English. Once he did, he had a habit of overusing it — trying to impress classmates with a nonstop stream of chatter, teachers said, and often annoying them instead.
“I love him dearly, but sometimes it got to be a little much,” Kubiak agreed. “He just went on and on.”
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Ahmed said he was suspended for several weeks in sixth grade. A family friend, Anthony Bond, said the boy and a cousin were blowing soap bubbles in the bathroom, and the school overreacted.
“Kids are kids,” said Bond, who has known Ahmed since he enrolled at Sam Houston. “He was a little boy in a new environment, and they were acting out.”
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By eighth grade, the young inventor was complaining of bullying — not just by students, but by staff.
In November, Bond wrote a letter to the superintendent, school board president and other officials, protesting that Ahmed had been suspended for defending himself during a hallway fight.
A larger boy had been choking Ahmed, Bond wrote. What’s more: “Ahmed also alleges that everyday, students in the school are calling him ‘Bacon Boy and Sausage Boy and ISIS Boy.’”
Ahmed blamed an administrator at the school who, Bond wrote, the boy felt “has been terrorizing him since the 6th grade” — hindering him from praying in school and unfairly punishing him. The News is not naming the administrator because it has not yet been able to investigate Ahmed’s complaints.
Bond’s letter called the boy’s treatment “Muslim bashing” — previewing outrage from people across the world after Ahmed blamed Islamophobia for his handcuffing this month.
Bertha Whatley, who was Irving ISD’s attorney last year, said “high-level” officials at the district reviewed Bond’s letter. Bond said the principal overturned the suspension after meeting with Ahmed.
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Kubiak was no longer Ahmed’s teacher in eighth grade, but he said the two still talked in the hallways nearly every day. Discussions of politics or religion sometimes turned to his resentment at the powers that be. “His eyes were pretty watered up” the day he told Kubiak he was being bullied, the teacher said.
“This kid was being pushed. At least he thought he was being pushed,” Kubiak said. “He’s got a habit for attracting or being in situations — being on the outside.”
Ahmed wasn’t the only one.
Kubiak, the eternal civil rights ideologue, was growing uncomfortable with Sam Houston’s administration. He complained to the superintendent that the school was too quick to suspend children and said he refused to use a new student evaluation system that “wrote some kids off.” He was booted down to teach sixth grade last year — and he knew he was done.
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By the way: “[N]o one interviewed by The Dallas Morning News remembered Ahmed getting into trouble for bringing his creations to Sam Houston.”
As some one who’s posted in this thread that the clock was indeed a shock hazard (but also commented that we shouldn’t “overstate” the hazard), I want to sign onto this observation. For a semi-portable device thrown together as a ‘show and tell’ exercise, that clock was not really much of a hazard.*
In fact, this is mainly just another area where the school let Ahmed down. The shop/engineering teacher had a very convenient teachable moment about build standards, but seems to have been more concerned with whether the device would be scary to someone predisposed to panic. In either case, once the problem was recognized, allowing Ahmed to carry the thing around for the rest of the school day was poorly considered.
*The problem with the clock was the unprotected (or poorly protected) 120V power connection to that transformer, combined with poor component mounting and no provision of a grommet and strain relief for the cord. You’d have to try pretty hard to shock yourself deliberately, which doesn’t make it impossible or even ridiculously unlikely that someone might do so accidentally. Just not a high risk, and one that’s easily mitigated.
Hahahaha. You forgot Obama’s undermining of the school’s safety protocols, and Obama’s dismissal of the teacher’s and principle’s concern for the safety of ALL of the students, teachers, and employees at the school.
Since it was not a hoax bomb, Obama didn’t undermine anything. And since neither the school authorities nor the police cared a whit about the so called “shock” safety aspect, I don’t see how Obama undermined that either.
That’s your opinion.
I believe is it a valid argument. Remember, if you see something, say something. Whether you approve of the school’s safety policy has no bearing on the teachers or principles subsequent actions.
It was the kid who decided to take his unsafe and hazardous clock to school. This was not a school project. The kid was told to keep the clock in the briefcase. It was the kid who decided not to do as he was told. It was the kid who plugged the timing device into the wall outlet.
Once the 2nd teacher became aware of the unsafe and hazardous clock, he followed the school’s safety protocol and notified the principle. If you see something, say something.
Once the principle was made aware of the unsafe and hazardous clock, he followed the school’s safety protocols and notified the police. If you see something, say something.
The kid violated the school’s safety policy and ended up with a suspension. Obama chose to invite this kid to the WH.
What message did Obama send? If you do something stupid, and repeatedly violate school safety policy, Obama will invite you to the WH. Forget what those teachers tell you. Obama will make you an internet hero.
The kid didn’t violate the safety policy. That is the whole point. The policy is published in the student handbook; the reaction by authorities was inconsistent with that policy.
Yeah! Because nowhere in the policy does it state “you shall not bring any device that could be confused for a bomb to school”. So he didn’t do anything wrong.
Your quote is not an accurate representation of the student handbook.
And the authorities? They simply should look the other way and ignore anyone who calls them and is concerned over something that might be a bomb. Especially if the person who brought it to school, and made sure people saw it, is Muslim and has a father who is politically active and hates America.
Them Texas people sure is stupid.
You just can’t help making shit up, can you?
Except for the kid.
No, it’s a fact that no one from the school or police cited the potential for electric shock as a cause for what happened.
Hahahaha. That’s funny. You did see the picture of the clock, didn’t you? Bare wires + 120vac = Bad.
I could explain it to you, but I can’t understand it for you.
I doubt very much his bad wiring was even a factor in this matter.
The authorities didn’t care. Why should Obama?