Still suspended
Here is Ahmed Mohamed talking to Chris Hayes yesterday.
He’s still suspended from school though, and his parents are looking for a new and less ridiculous educational facility for him.
Ahmed was still suspended by school officials. He said Wednesday that his family is looking for a new school for him after he was placed in handcuffs.
“I built the clock to impress my teacher, but when I showed it to her, she thought it was a threat to her. So it was really sad she took the wrong impression of it,” Ahmed said at the press conference.
School district spokeswoman Lesley Weaver declined to confirm the suspension, citing privacy laws. Weaver insisted school officials were concerned with student safety and not the boy’s faith.
You can’t blame them, really…The clock contained a circuit board. You never see those except in bombs.
Umm. Even after a supporting tweet from the president himself?
Oh, I forgot. He is another brown guy, and a muslim to boot. Of course one can’t take a hint from him.
I’d bet that “zero tolerance” is at the root. They can’t reverse a suspension no matter how ridiculous it turns out to be. Kids playing cops and robbers with finger-guns? Drawings of soldiers? Terrorism! A vitamin pill in your lunch box? Drugs! Pulling a girl’s pigtails? Rape! Zero tolerance: the offender must be suspended for 1 day on a first offense, 5 days on a second offense, and expelled on a third offense.
If it turns out it was a drawing of a cell phone, well, we’re just so sorry Mr. Amadou Diallo Junior, but we have a zero tolerance policy for anything that looks like it might be a representation of a firearm. Put your hands behind your back.
It’s so clear they can’t admit they screwed up. And they think to convince people they didn’t make a mistake so the student stays suspended. Looking at what Ahmed did, it’s clear that it isn’t connected to anything that is an explosive. Talk about having no common sense
I really want to know what would happen if someone took a the case off a PC and left it exposed overnight, to be discovered in the classroom the following morning.
What appears to be missing is anything that looks like it might, you know, go asplodey.
I think Ahmed’s father’s question is very valid: If the officials truly thought it was a bomb, why didn’t they evacuate the school and let the bomb squad handle the device? Instead, they passed it around like it was the harmless electronic device that it was.
And we have a conservative (black ) criticising the President for inviting Ahmed. Wont anyone think about
poor starving African childrenpoor slain police officershttp://time.com/4039972/cj-pearson-obama-viral-video-ahmed/
I must say I’m surprised (and not in a good way) by how Taslima has reacted to this on twitter. She seems to give the teachers and the cops the benefit of doubt.