Lol, no, then MIT would have about 4 students. The kid is awesome, he made a bad judgement call, the school totally overreacted, fix it and move on.
I'm not sure what security checks whites are targeted for in order to prevent mass shootings... What are you talking about? I'm talking about preventative security measures for places like airports. I would rather use ones that work. Your answer doesn't even make sense. You've already been busted for posting a fake news story on someone reading the bible. Maybe you need to check where your getting your information from before making such drastic judgments.
You don't have any idea what you're talking about do you? There was no incident involving stereotyping on a train that saved 100's of lives. There was an incident that didn't involve stereotyping where people prevented a terrorist attack. But it wasn't their stereotyping that got it done, it was the fact there was a guy in the restroom with rifle and they took action that got it done. You believe and try to spread fake news stories, don't know what racial profiling is in regards to security, and don't really know the facts about real news stories that did happen. You're incredibly unreliable.
That clock was simply something he threw together from spare parts lying around in his room on Sunday to show his Engineering teacher (yeah, right) what he could do. That alone won't get him into MIT - his two pending patents however should be enough to seal the deal.
Point taken. I had a talk with my son who's really into computer science about my personal experiences. He was dumbfounded when I told about how I was "counseled" to give up pursuing science and engineering and pressured to " learn a trade" when I wanted to enter the Science Fair. This kid is facing the same ignorance that I did over 40 years ago. Now, unlike Ahmed, I was fortunate because in those days they merely ignored kids like myself instead of locking me up. I'm better today but my neighbor Shamir who also has a 15 year old son interested in science is beyond pissed and I don't blame him one iota. Thank god that kid is transferring to another school that's actually interested in educating him instead of profiling him.
I'd say it was handled correctly. Is a teacher supposed to know exactly what a bomb should and shouldn't look like? A bunch of circuit boards all wire together would confuse any teacher except those teaching computer courses probably. I'd only have a problem with it if the student was white and the teacher didn't take the same action. In this day and age, it might have been wise for the kid to inform his teachers what he was going to bring in that day instead of just doing it. And, I'm not so sure this isn't some ploy by the kid to get attention because he obviously wants to go to MIT really badly according to his own words. Also, did he actually bring the "clock" in a briefcase? Hasn't he ever seen "Airplane" the movie? A buh...no...not a buh....a clock.
This was not true. It was another American who confronted the terrorist with a gun as he was coming out of the bathroom. It was not stereotyping when you carry a big gun on a passenger train. You are trying to spin reality into lies again. The teachers if they thought it was a bomb should call the police. It's not their job to decide if a clock is a clock or a bomb. You'd think that one of them would be smart enough (especially the science teacher who did recognize it was not a bomb) to assure other s that it was just a clock. The science teacher recognized the problem and should have held onto the clock. So he failed in his job. The problem with the other teachers is that they associated his background with the fact it was a bomb. If he were white they would have been able to better see that it was a clock. They assumed from movies that anything in a case with wire and a clock is a bomb. I think their perception was blurred by his background. Newsmax is a notorious for twisting facts and you shouldn't be quoting it. I also pointed out to you earlier that the 79% number was inaccurate but you continue to justify its use. This is why you have no credibility. You lied there and in this thread. You are someone who doesn't care about the truth.
The English teacher is a dumbass for actually taking a potential bomb herself (if she actually thought it was) which endangers herself as well as her students. First thing they tell you in every bomb protocol is to leave the suspicious object be, evacuate the area, and notify the authorities. Had she followed that, the bomb squad would have been called in, the school may be evacuated, the bomb squad would have determined no danger, and the whole thing would have been glossed over and labeled a misunderstanding. It would have just been a 20-sec segment on Irving local news instead of this *****storm that made it to the President's office and BBC. And now her, the school, the police, and even Texas look like racist f**ks.
If they actually thought it was a bomb, the whole school would have been evacuated. It did not seem like it was. Either way, the school f***ed up.
It's not a matter of looking like racist. At the very least all involved were almost criminally ignorant.
Once again another feeble attempt to somehow blame this kid for well being a student who simply wanted to impress his teachers. According to folks like you, his only sin was that he forgot that because he was Muslim, before he could do so, he (1) had to publicly inform his teachers (especially the dumbass English one), principal, staff and Irving PD that he was (a) not a terrorist and (b) further explain (again with nice pictures) what a digital clock made from basic logic gates actually looked like. It's abundantly clear that they had no idea that a minority Muslim student could actually possess the intellectual capacity to build such a device on his own initiative. After all, the fact that he was Muslim and brown-skinned made that imperative because he bears some sort of responsibility for what other Muslims have done and are doing in other parts of the world. Also because MIT is his "dream school" he must have some sort of ulterior motive but had he been a white kid, that desire would not only have been encouraged but celebrated. This is the kind of attitude that makes me glad that he's transferring to another school where true education and not where BS Tea Party paranoia is being taught. But you are right about one thing: that so-called teacher is a perfect fit for the stupidity and ignorance being sold under the guise of education in Irving ISD.
I'll go one step further: As anyone who has had children in public schools knows, nearly every school has a police officer assigned to that school. If that fool had actually believed that was a bomb, then why didn't she immediately contact said police officer and implement the protocol you described? Because she, the principal and Irving PD saw this kid's last name and labelled him a terror threat. Had he been white, he'd have been given the benefit of the doubt because, as everybody knows, the good white students pose no threat to public school safety.
Again, it's not a brief case. It's not even remotely the size of a brief case, it's more like the size of a cell phone. Dunno who send out those cropped initial pictures of the clock, but it makes the clock look huge and brief case sized. The later uncropped images showing a thumb put the size in much better perspective.
Seems like the police department is trying to make themselves look better by repeatedly calling it a "briefcase" but in reality it's a pencil box the size of a large cell phone. http://www.amazon.com/Vaultz-Locking-Pencil-Inches-VZ01479/dp/B001BXZ28K
Didn't his engineering teacher tell this kid it wouldn't be wise to show some one else the clock? Let's be real guys, it doesn't look like a clock and his engineering teacher knew it. I can see why the English teacher panicked, especially with all the crazy crap going on in schools and on college campuses. I don't know if it was handled appropriately by the police or if the teacher thought it was a bomb because Ahmed was Muslim, but If someone just put that on the table, "clock" wouldn't come to mind... Seriously though, if something beeps and someone pulls this contraption out of a back pack no one is giving the side eye, locating exits?
From the articles about this, it does not appear that ANYBODY treated the clock as possibly an ACTUAL bomb-- not the teachers, not the police, not the administrators. Nobody asked the premises to the immediately cleared. Nobody called in the bomb squad. If anybody thought this thing could have been an ACTUAL bomb, they wouldn't have just kept it around while they talked to the kid. The police didn't even accuse him of making an actual bomb during interrogation, only a "hoax bomb" or "movie bomb." So, nobody actually was concerned about student being in any kind of actual danger-- there is no "better safe than sorry" at work here because nobody thought they were in fact unsafe. All the authorities accused Ahmed Mohammed of doing is maybe trying to scare people with a device that everybody knew was NOT a bomb.
