Mark Zuckerberg posted this today to Facebook: "You’ve probably seen the story about Ahmed, the 14 year old student in Texas who built a clock and was arrested when he took it to school. Having the skill and ambition to build something cool should lead to applause, not arrest. The future belongs to people like Ahmed. Ahmed, if you ever want to come by Facebook, I'd love to meet you. Keep building."
I also asked my friends at BoingBoing to cover it as well: http://boingboing.net/2015/09/16/making-while-brown-texas-scho.html?utm_source=moreatbb&utm_medium=nextpost&utm_campaign=nextpostthumbnails And the school district doubled down, asking parents to report anything that scares them, assuming that to be smart young men of brown shade who are makers: http://www.irvingisd.net/cms/lib010/TX01917973/Centricity/Domain/9/ParentLetter_SuspiciousLookingItematMacArthur.pdf?utm_content=bufferfca92&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer bb spoofs Apple in the garage history "Man of Syrian descent found in garage building what looks like a bomb" (the Apple I): http://boingboing.net/2015/09/16/arab-looking-man-of-syrian-des.html And President Obama invites boy who was arrested for making clock to the Whitehouse: http://boingboing.net/2015/09/16/president-obama-invites-the-bo.html I'd say when the kid is compared to Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak and the President of the U.S. Invites the kid, that the idiots who did this have effectively been spanked. I'd think more about the kid's opportunity for a lawsuit for the false arrest and impingement to his character, the future lifetime of lost income, etc. by having his character assailed by Idocracy morons at the school and in the local law enforcement, etc etc. Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 16, 2015, at 02:17, petehand <peteh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Although nothing should surprise me by now about the insanity of the American > school system, this one touches a nerve. A kid - a young teenager - made a > clock of his own design, took it to school, and found himself in police > custody accused of making a fake terrorist bomb - a "movie bomb". Maybe it > wouldn't have happened if he'd used nixies instead of 7 segment displays, as > then the morons at his school might have asked him what it was instead of > instantly recognizing it as a deadly bomb like the ones they've seen in > Hollywood movies. Way to go, teachers, for discouraging him from ever doing > anything creative like that again. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to neonixie-l@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/F91CC3CC-7690-4E9C-98D7-FA0BE53E34D0%40degeere.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
