You can imagine how proud he was, he really wanted to show off his clock. I can think of a few times I got shut down by bored adults when I wanted to present something I built.
But he wasn't met with boredom, he was met with an arrest. Police still threatening charges.
I cannot tell you how mad this made me. The racism, the refusal to appreciate the nerdy kid, the police idiocy, the bad teacher, the horrible administration. 5 police officers interrogating one 14-year-old who just likes tinkering because he brought in a clock.
Does anybody know a good way (that is, polite and unlikely to be percieved as menacing) to send something to the family? I'd totally go in on a giant AdaFruit gift certificate for the young fellow. Or a scholarship fund. Or both.
Thanks for this! I offered a FaceTime tour of our scientific robotics labs. When I was in middle school learning and playing with electronics I would've loved that.
This experience, may make the boy turn into a terrorist- -being racially profiled..I could imagine someone being like "well they think I'm already a terrorist, might as well not let them down...' -- I mean seriously -- I hope the cops, and principle have their arses sued off for this crap.
Or he could become an activist. Or he could do nothing, take the slight, and mor forward with his life. No one simply becomes a terrorist. They are groomed. They are sought out and programmed.
Tsaernev was heavily influenced by his older brother who was heavily influenced by members of his mosque and I would say his own family. I doubt Ahmed is going this route. He's been contacted by CAIR, Anil Dash, and is a raised by an activist father. I don't see extremism in his future. Far too many people care about him.
You're being downvoted for hyperbole, but there is some truth in what you are saying. This is exactly the type of scenario that groups like ISIS take advantage of, hence their unusually high number of western educated recruits.
Foley artists and prop guys are so responsible for this (obviously not morally).
Guns don't "sound like guns" (pew! pew! click!), bombs don't "look like bombs" (red dynamite strapped to a modernist circuit board with dramatic technicolor wiring), drowning doesn't "look like drowning" (dramatic flailing & yelling) etc. etc.
"Mr. X, it's like you're not a real teacher! You haven't even given a dramatic monologue about believing in myself yet!"
I am just baffled at the ignorance. Not only does everybody in that school automatically assumed it was a bomb, but the police has the audacity to: "They led Ahmed into a room where four other police officers waited. He said an officer he’d never seen before leaned back in his chair and remarked: “Yup. That’s who I thought it was.”"
The engineering teacher advising him to not show anyone else is just sad. He just wants to show people his passion, but everybody else's inability to for one second think that maybe this kid has great potential, rather think that he made a bomb, because what else could he possibly be making. This is infuriating.
Irving, TX's Irving high school[1] has 34 athletic coaches[2], so you can see their priorities. I can't find any course descriptions on their site, other than a few online courses. ("Web design - Learn industry-standard software including Adobe Fireworks, Dreamweaver, and Flash with helpful videos.")
> "He just wants to invent good things for mankind,” said Ahmed’s father, Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed, who immigrated from Sudan and occasionally returns there to run for president.
it's not unusual for people to occasionally return to their country of origin to engage in politics. quite often the reason they're abroad is the security risk involved in being in opposition to the political status quo.
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But he wasn't met with boredom, he was met with an arrest. Police still threatening charges.
Does anybody know a good way (that is, polite and unlikely to be percieved as menacing) to send something to the family? I'd totally go in on a giant AdaFruit gift certificate for the young fellow. Or a scholarship fund. Or both.
What, if anything, could these dimwitted officials do to atone for this outrage?
Tsaernev was heavily influenced by his older brother who was heavily influenced by members of his mosque and I would say his own family. I doubt Ahmed is going this route. He's been contacted by CAIR, Anil Dash, and is a raised by an activist father. I don't see extremism in his future. Far too many people care about him.
Guns don't "sound like guns" (pew! pew! click!), bombs don't "look like bombs" (red dynamite strapped to a modernist circuit board with dramatic technicolor wiring), drowning doesn't "look like drowning" (dramatic flailing & yelling) etc. etc.
"Mr. X, it's like you're not a real teacher! You haven't even given a dramatic monologue about believing in myself yet!"
The engineering teacher advising him to not show anyone else is just sad. He just wants to show people his passion, but everybody else's inability to for one second think that maybe this kid has great potential, rather think that he made a bomb, because what else could he possibly be making. This is infuriating.
You can buy your own damn clock kit on Amazon for $6! http://www.amazon.com/Electronic-Production-Suite-Clock-…/…/
How are these people in these positions?
Yeah, I suspect that he was trying to be diplomatic to some extent, but that's gotta be crushing for the kid.
[1] http://www.irvingisd.net/Domain/8 [2] http://www.irvingisd.net/Page/6032
Wait... run for president?