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Freshman arrested for bringing a clock to school
Young boy built an electronic clock, brought to his high school to show to his electronics instructor. School put on alert, boy arrested. Of course the boy's name was Mohamed.
http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/northwest-dallas-county/headlines/20150915-irving-ninth-grader-arrested-after-taking-homemade-clock-to-school.ece
Obama invites boy to White House. Classy move.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/09/15/student-detained-police-mistake-clock-fake-bomb/72348060/
I despise zero tolerance policies.
http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/northwest-dallas-county/headlines/20150915-irving-ninth-grader-arrested-after-taking-homemade-clock-to-school.ece
Obama invites boy to White House. Classy move.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/09/15/student-detained-police-mistake-clock-fake-bomb/72348060/
I despise zero tolerance policies.
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"In the first place, God created idiots. That was for practice. Then He created school boards." --Mark Twain
...and by inference, school administrations in general. I've seen very little to belie Twain's quote in my over half century on the planet - if you're looking for idiots and lunacy, look no farther than the nearest school building.
I think being an idiot is a prerequisite to even run...
As for School Boards.... Ours has become very much controlled by state and local businesses. Our upcoming election of a superintendent is heating up, and our present one has about $400,000. in his campaign fund. Why would a position dedicated to the education of children, have a massive campaign fund like this? :silly:
55 in about 6 weeks and getting more cynical and grumpy all the time! If people would just listen, I'd solve all their problems straight away! :jester::tooth::guns::mad::roll2::devil:
But I've been told I look 30-ish in a dim room or when I have my makeup on! :rotflmao:
Dang, Zorba. You said something I agree with. Must be the aging process. Now I just need to figure out for whom.
Gun control laws make about as much sense as taking ex-lax to cure a cough.
:agree:
Lets see, A Muslim, wires and electronic parts that most in that school have no idy what they are. I can see their concern.
Age or sex hasn't stopped them in the past. Been different if a science teacher had assigned them a project with a list of parts and asked the kids to bring it in so he could evaluate their progress.
The cuffing and all the hype could have been handled differently.
Sorry, that is just the way it is these days. I do agree school boards and administrators act **** with some of their asinine decisions.
Words of wisdom from Big Chief: Flush twice, it's a long way to the Mess Hall
I'd rather have my sister work in a whorehouse than own another Taurus!
second, the math teacher was a moron to keep it in her desk for a while then have the code brown moment to call the cops.
Third, the cops were morons for not excecising a little discression and giving the kid a talking to, and letting him go.
BUT... as for this being racial- Horsesqueeze. I know a guy personally that had the cops and BATFE called on him from a small school in central TX for popping a plastic soda bottle with dry ice. The two kids are white and redneck as possible, and they did something on thier own that was done just a few hours before in a science class, and had the feds sicced on them by morons
-Mikhail Kalashnikov
Words of wisdom from Big Chief: Flush twice, it's a long way to the Mess Hall
I'd rather have my sister work in a whorehouse than own another Taurus!
Words of wisdom from Big Chief: Flush twice, it's a long way to the Mess Hall
I'd rather have my sister work in a whorehouse than own another Taurus!
The ENGLISH teacher, (based no doubt on her many years in EOD) THOUGHT it looked like a bomb....and panic ensues...
The COPS who should know better, rather than defusing the panic...participate in it
The SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION, buying into the panic, and spouting "It's all about safety!" suspends the kid for bringing a freaking CLOCK to school...and once they know it's a clock, keep the suspension in place...
and...if you're trying to tell me that the fact that the kid is a Muslim didn't have a lot to do with the panic.....well I've got some beachfront property in Idaho I'd like to sell you....
After looking at the "device" it in no way resembles an IED...
Stupid English teacher needs to be slapped so hard her mother screams. Ignorance is no excuse for a panic. The cops went way over the top with their response, too. And FWIW, you with kids should be telling them not to talk to the cops when questioned in a situation like that. Demand parents be present and shut up; in a case like this, the cops are not their friend.
― Douglas Adams
Especially "...and once they know it's a clock, keep the suspension in place..."
If THAT isn't typical school administration IDIOCY and STUPIDITY, I don't know what is. We keep seeing this over, and over, and over, and over again - and the common factor EVERY single time is an IDIOTIC school administration. Don't forget the pop-tart fiasco.
I expect people....particularly those people who keep hollering about the importance of the 2nd Amendment of the Bill of Rights in the Constitution, to recognize the right to worship as we see fit is ALSO a Constitutional Right....I've about had it with the Muslim hate/panic I see exhibited by normally right-thinking people...If they're dangerous, criminals/terrorists...kill 'em....if they're law abiding citizens they ain't a damn bit different than you or me....
Yep, lawsuits cost money, school districts are big targets, our district is only 1000 students, my wife got paid $1300 last year, works out to less than $10 an hour.
Your wrong, that is what the job pays, the job sucks, we got at least 250 hours out of our superintendent off the clock last year, our superintendent trains other superintendents how to do their jobs efficiently, our district has a $12Million budget, his salary while substantial in the low 6 figures, is justified. With 60% of our students eligible taking the ACT, their average was 22-23, not all school administrators are low functioning amoeba, I would say most of the small districts in our area are run WELL.
Teachers would bitch if they were hung with a new rope, they are spoon fed the union line and repeat it often and regularly, they are working 9 months out of the year and get every made up holiday off with pay, they get opportunities to advance their education and degrees which results in pay increases, they get off work in the early afternoon, they get to retire with full benefits in their 50's if they choose if they started teaching when they got out of school, two of my dads best friends were teachers, they were not hurting when they retired, at all. The koolaid drinking union teachers are a joke. I am not speaking for my wife.
Jerry
Oh, and we had a part time librarian in later years.
I do agree about teacher's unions - in fact, if I'm not sure how to vote on a particular issue, I see what the California Teacher's Association has to say about it. They have something to say about just about everything whether it concerns them or not. In any event, I'll usually vote opposite! But I've know my share of excellent, dedicated teachers - and they do have it pretty tough, especially in this Libtard state.