09-30-2015, 03:21 PM
(09-30-2015, 11:46 AM)fredtoast Wrote: How did the boy not cooperate with the police?The only legitimate reason that I see for suspension is that of bringing in a device that could electrocute a student.
What should he have been suspended for?
And why was he handcuffed? What was the point of that?
The transformer seemed to be loose, which could allow the contacts of the AC current to conduct through the metal of the case.
I only bring that up, as it was said that he plugged it in.
That presented a possibly lethal situation.
If it only ran off of the 9v battery, I would have a tough time suspending him.
(09-30-2015, 12:52 PM)fredtoast Wrote: People need to read the entire article in the Dallas Morning News instead of the Foxnews version.
http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/northwest-dallas-county/headlines/20150926-before-ahmeds-fame-fantastic-inventions-and-a-fight-with-authority.ece
Some of his middle school teachers were surprised to hear that MacArthur High staff called police this month after Ahmed brought a homemade clock to class. He had dragged far more elaborate gizmos into Sam Houston all the time.
When a seemingly possessed projector kept shutting off midlecture, young boys’ snickers surrounded Ahmed’s desk, where he sat with a hand-built remote control in his lap.
When a tutor’s cellphone went dead, Ahmed’s jerry-rigged battery charger brought it back to life.
Some of these creations looked much like the infamous clock — a mess of wires and exposed circuits stuffed inside a hinged case, perhaps suspicious to some. But no one interviewed by The Dallas Morning News remembered Ahmed getting into trouble for bringing his creations to Sam Houston.
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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.’”
Bond said the principal overturned the suspension after meeting with Ahmed.
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“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.”
It sucks that the kid was being bullied.
The projector gag doesn't bode well for him though.
