With a name like Ahmed Mohamed... Imagine if his last name were Goldstein or Johnson. That teacher would have nominated him for an award instead of calling the cops.
The rules underwent a huge change after Columbine in Texas. Texas schools dance to what a stupid ass Texas Legislature puts out. That's the bottom line. This is why teachers don't know what the to enforce at any particular moment. Read the Bullying rules... Started by suicides because of kids teasing online. Schools dance to the moment because the Texas Legislature overreacts to current events.
Because WE do.
On your knees for Obama? Not surprised
Wrong as usual pigskin, drop trou for Trump clown
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Last edited by Blake; 09-17-2015 at 07:39 AM. Reason: dumb post
Only in Texas.
The clock did kind of look su ious...Only in Texas.
it didn't help that he is Muslim either.
What more do you need to know about that story, Darrin?
Seven other kids not named Mohamed who brought homemade clocks to school
Hoping to impress the teachers at his new school, an Irving, Texas, high school freshman named Ahmed Mohamed brought a homemade clock with him to MacArthur High Monday morning, which he’d assembled before bed the night before. When he showed it to those teachers, though, they were something other than impressed, and by Monday afternoon, Mohamed was being led out of school in handcuffs. Ahmed’s English teacher believed the
device was a bomb.
Texas High School Has Muslim Teenager Arrested for Building a Clock
A Muslim teenager who built a clock for a class project won a prize he really didn’t want: a…Read more
Why? Could it have something to do with Ahmed Mohamed’s name, or the color of his skin? His father thinks so. “He just wants to invent good things for mankind,” Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed told the Dallas Morning News. “But because his name is Mohamed and because of Sept. 11, I think my son got mistreated.”
Mohamed’s father might be right. Below are seven students, not named Mohamed, who got off scot-free for the heinous crime of DIY timekeeping, plus a bonus kid who brought an actual inert bomb to school and wasn’t suspended. (Mohamed got three days.)
Peter Mathis of Wilmington, North Carolina
Another student who likes clocks made a clock of his own. Peter Mattis of Gregory elementary wanted to make a clock more complex than a sundial, so he made his own liquid clock.—Wilmington Morning Star, March 10, 1999
The clock drips green fluid into a container to mark the hour. And while Peter doesn’t use the clock to tell time at home because it tells time by hours instead of minutes, he can think of one situation where the clock would come in handy: a hurricane.
Haley Zinke and Tasha Williams of Turtle Lake, North Dakota
Haley Zinke and Tasha Williams researched whether or not water clocks kept accurate time. They built their own clock for the project and demonstration.—McLean County Journal, May 22, 2014
Logan Weimer of Holland, Ohio
During the Holloway Elementary School science fair last week, kids crowded around Logan’s exhibit as he explained how he used veggie power to keep track of time.—Toledo Blade, March 22, 2007
“I tried to get an alarm clock to come on with no batteries,” Logan explained, pointing to copper wires and chunks of potato and lemons. Citric acid in the lemon kept the clock working for hours, but the potato “spuddered” out rather quickly.
However, he said he was really happy with his experiment because “if the power goes out, I will get to school on time.”
Indy Brumbraugh and Cesar Limas of Dade City, Florida
Indy Brumbraugh and Cesar Limas also worked together on their “Clock-o-matic,” an alarm clock that squirts water on those not-so-early risers.—St. Petersburg Times, December 15, 1999
“I wake up late and my mom and dad wake up late, so I was thinking of an idea to wake them up early,” Cesar said.
Tori Clark of Ellis, Kansas
“I didn’t know anything about building,” said senior Tori Clark, the only girl in the class of 14. “I built a clock in (Carroll’s) industrial tech class last year, and he’s a good teacher so I decided to try this.”—Hays Daily News, December 5, 2010
It was a good decision, Clark said.
“My dad said he wishes he would have had something like this when he was in school,” she said.
Plus, here’s an anonymous kid in Kiowa, Colorado who brought an actual inert bomb and wasn’t suspended (his teacher was)
A high school student’s science project was meant to demonstrate how heat is involved in transferring energy. But because the project was an inert bomb, the student and his teacher are taking some heat of their own.—New York Times, January 18, 2002
The bomb, made with fertilizer and diesel in a test tube, was displayed last week at a science fair with traditional experiments when an anonymous caller alerted the authorities. The bomb was made with the approval of the 17-year-old student’s teacher.
...
The student, whose name officials refused to release, remains in school and will not be disciplined by the school, because he had his teacher’s approval for the project.
If you or your child ever brought a homemade clock to school and somehow escaped arrest, feel free to share your story below.
http://gawker.com/7-kids-not-named-m...-to-1730999866
Christian Sharia says, Christian hate and paranoia message: all Muslims
It was a metal box with wiring boots. Not a frggn lemon with electrodes stuck in it.Seven other kids not named Mohamed who brought homemade clocks to school
Hoping to impress the teachers at his new school, an Irving, Texas, high school freshman named Ahmed Mohamed brought a homemade clock with him to MacArthur High Monday morning, which he’d assembled before bed the night before. When he showed it to those teachers, though, they were something other than impressed, and by Monday afternoon, Mohamed was being led out of school in handcuffs. Ahmed’s English teacher believed the
device was a bomb.
Texas High School Has Muslim Teenager Arrested for Building a Clock
A Muslim teenager who built a clock for a class project won a prize he really didn’t want: a…Read more
Why? Could it have something to do with Ahmed Mohamed’s name, or the color of his skin? His father thinks so. “He just wants to invent good things for mankind,” Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed told the Dallas Morning News. “But because his name is Mohamed and because of Sept. 11, I think my son got mistreated.”
Mohamed’s father might be right. Below are seven students, not named Mohamed, who got off scot-free for the heinous crime of DIY timekeeping, plus a bonus kid who brought an actual inert bomb to school and wasn’t suspended. (Mohamed got three days.)
Peter Mathis of Wilmington, North Carolina
Another student who likes clocks made a clock of his own. Peter Mattis of Gregory elementary wanted to make a clock more complex than a sundial, so he made his own liquid clock.—Wilmington Morning Star, March 10, 1999
The clock drips green fluid into a container to mark the hour. And while Peter doesn’t use the clock to tell time at home because it tells time by hours instead of minutes, he can think of one situation where the clock would come in handy: a hurricane.
Haley Zinke and Tasha Williams of Turtle Lake, North Dakota
Haley Zinke and Tasha Williams researched whether or not water clocks kept accurate time. They built their own clock for the project and demonstration.—McLean County Journal, May 22, 2014
Logan Weimer of Holland, Ohio
During the Holloway Elementary School science fair last week, kids crowded around Logan’s exhibit as he explained how he used veggie power to keep track of time.—Toledo Blade, March 22, 2007
“I tried to get an alarm clock to come on with no batteries,” Logan explained, pointing to copper wires and chunks of potato and lemons. Citric acid in the lemon kept the clock working for hours, but the potato “spuddered” out rather quickly.
However, he said he was really happy with his experiment because “if the power goes out, I will get to school on time.”
Indy Brumbraugh and Cesar Limas of Dade City, Florida
Indy Brumbraugh and Cesar Limas also worked together on their “Clock-o-matic,” an alarm clock that squirts water on those not-so-early risers.—St. Petersburg Times, December 15, 1999
“I wake up late and my mom and dad wake up late, so I was thinking of an idea to wake them up early,” Cesar said.
Tori Clark of Ellis, Kansas
“I didn’t know anything about building,” said senior Tori Clark, the only girl in the class of 14. “I built a clock in (Carroll’s) industrial tech class last year, and he’s a good teacher so I decided to try this.”—Hays Daily News, December 5, 2010
It was a good decision, Clark said.
“My dad said he wishes he would have had something like this when he was in school,” she said.
Plus, here’s an anonymous kid in Kiowa, Colorado who brought an actual inert bomb and wasn’t suspended (his teacher was)
A high school student’s science project was meant to demonstrate how heat is involved in transferring energy. But because the project was an inert bomb, the student and his teacher are taking some heat of their own.—New York Times, January 18, 2002
The bomb, made with fertilizer and diesel in a test tube, was displayed last week at a science fair with traditional experiments when an anonymous caller alerted the authorities. The bomb was made with the approval of the 17-year-old student’s teacher.
...
The student, whose name officials refused to release, remains in school and will not be disciplined by the school, because he had his teacher’s approval for the project.
If you or your child ever brought a homemade clock to school and somehow escaped arrest, feel free to share your story below.
http://gawker.com/7-kids-not-named-m...-to-1730999866
Christian Sharia says, Christian hate and paranoia message: all Muslims
Horrible comparisons above. " , he brought a clock that used sand in a glass tube..."
Nonetheless the consternation on all sides is amusing.
^Totally agree. It did kind of look like a bomb -- though there was clearly an overreaction.
The timing part is totally stupid.
Its the very rapid expansion of some fluid or solid with surrounding metal (shrapnel) that's scary. You know, the actual bomb part of the bomb. Apparently no one looked for the real part of a bomb. , he could have brought a mousetrap with a candle and some wax and had a crude timer.
Yeah, and him randomly bringing it to school to show it off, not for a science fair project, didn't help.
Although it makes me wonder if the reaction would be similar if it actually were for a science project
This really puts things in context:
His engineering teacher understood what it was and also that it might alarm (no pun) someone who didn't know... which it did.He said he took it to school on Monday to show an engineering teacher, who said it was nice but then told him he should not show the invention to other teachers. Later, Ahmed’s clock beeped during an English class, and after he revealed the device to the teacher, school officials notified the police, and Ahmed was interrogated by officers.
-NY TIMES
Like all America, the schools staffs are scared less.
Their intimidation, police-state, zero-tolerance strategy, based on the bull that school staff and kids are adversaries, is more proof that America is ed and un able.
police arresting the kid is the troubling issue here, imo.
Not entirely without reason though.
As always, 9,999 kids are suspects because 1 was bad.
If public schools were allowed to get rid of the 1% repeat offenders the schools would change dramatically. So much effort goes into trying to contain out of control hormonal boys.
And the general recipe :
1. Male
2. Single parent mom who works and is away or just does not care
3. Poverty
4. Bad experience in early formative years with school
A deeper investigation into black-psycho-on-TV-reporter violence, no doubt.
#Halfabomb Explodes on Twitter After Think Tank Calls Boy’s Clock a Threat
After an outpouring of sympathy for Ahmed Mohamed, the 14-year-old Muslim high school student arrested on Monday for bringing his homemade clock to school, a neoconservative think tank funded by major defense contractors tried to justify the actions of local police and school officials, calling what the boy built “half a bomb.”
Following our story about the Center for Security Policy’s comments, social media users responded with mockery — some providing their own examples of what else could be construed as #halfabomb.
https://theintercept.com/2015/09/18/...-clock-threat/
texas is on a mission to keep their children dumb. i pray that when i start a family its not in this state.Only in Texas.
.. or any red state.
AL just put stickers in their science books that, paraphrasing, "evolution is a controversial theory", and probably don't even mention AGW, another "controversy".
Red states especially are gerrymandered, voter suppressed, Christina Sharia, ed and un able.
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