Maybe because the story is fake. And maybe because you're doing so to avoid calling Ahmed's situation what it is: wrong. Why does this have to be a competition for you? Wrongs aren't corrected by shouting "Hey! Look at this problem, too! Why aren't you just as mad about this?" and seeking to establish false equivalency. Tell us: Was it right for this 14-year-old to be held without access to his parents? Was it right for him to be placed in handcuffs? Was it right for the school to see enough of a "threat" in him to send him to a juvenile detention facility, but not evacuate the school like common sense would dictate during a bomb threat? Please try not to deflect to another topic.
In other words, Obama didn't speak about this Bible suspension case for the same reason he didn't send a condolence letter for the passing of Lennay Kekua.
And now Ahmed gets to go check out Google, Facebook and the White House. He'll get to see what nurtured invention looks like and be inspired by the people who truly change the way the world works instead of being "taught" by those who have watched too much "24."
If you look at the home page, I don't see how anyone could be fooled: "Black teens start no pants fashion trend" "Concern grows as Walmart announces plan to sell breast milk" "American Psychological Association to classify belief in God as a mental illness" "CDC says Ebola vaccine only works on white people" "Allen Iverson seen begging for change outside Atlanta's Lenox Mall"
and the morons at that police department thought this was a bomb? nothing here even remotely resembles explosive material, did those idiots think circuit board can cause explosions now?
Why do wingnuts regularly humiliate themselves by passing on fake news stories? It's astounding how often this happens. Reminds me of the time bigtexxx confused a fake Al-Jazeera web site for the real thing, after informing us that he read Al-Jazeera "quite frequently". http://bbs.clutchfans.net/showthread.php?p=2017011&highlight=al-jazeera#post2017011 Good times.
I mean, he's 14. He could decide he isn't interested in electrical engineering soon. My point was that it's a good PR look for Google and Facebook, two huge American companies, to invite him to their offices. Maybe it'll spark something in him, maybe it won't. Conversely, it's a bad PR look for a school to punish curiosity so harshly and stupidly. That he was interrogated without a guardian present and arrested, because an English teacher was stupid enough to think he'd brought a "movie bomb" to class, is a farce. Those in charge with encouraging his curiosity did the exact opposite.
The bit that annoys me is that even though law enforcement realized how untenable their situation is and already announced they'd bring no charges, the school has still settled on a 3 day suspension. For what exactly? Well he disrupted the class right? But 3 days suspension for a first time offense by a 9th grader? What do they do when a cell phone rings in class? http://www.irvingisd.net/cms/lib010...Student Code of Conduct 2015-2106 English.pdf The phone is confiscated and can be retrieved by a parent at the end of the day, with a $15 confiscation fee. They also give themselves some wiggle room to assess more punishments, but how many kids get 3 days suspensions if their phone rings in class one time? So, he's actually being punished for the 'bomb hoax' that wasn't. It reminds me of Catch-22 when the colonels have to pick between punishing Yossarian and making themselves look bad or giving him a medal to make themselves look good. Except, in Irving they chose to make themselves look bad. Truer words have never been spoken.
