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Title: 14 year old who makes homemade radios and clocks gets arrested in school for?...
Post by: atrainradio on September 16, 2015, 1535 UTC
For bringing a homemade clock to school.

This makes me wanna vomit. This school oughta be ashamed for themselves.

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/northwest-dallas-county/headlines/20150915-irving-ninth-grader-arrested-after-taking-homemade-clock-to-school.ece

Title: Re: 14 year old who makes homemade radios and clocks gets arrested in school for?...
Post by: ff on September 16, 2015, 2046 UTC
This school oughta be ashamed for themselves.

I doubt its possible for any modern school administrator to FEEL ashamed about anything.  But what a bright kid.  He can go far.  There's a growing movement among American tech startups and angel investors to support bright young high school graduates BEFORE they go off to college and be ruined by the "educators".  This lad would probably qualify and maybe this treatment at his school will prompt him to consider that path.  I'm amazed because his "workbench" is almost as messy and cluttered as mine is!   :D
Title: Re: 14 year old who makes homemade radios and clocks gets arrested in school for?...
Post by: John Poet on September 16, 2015, 2059 UTC
F**kin' Texas.  Profile much?

I'm willing to bet that if the kid had been a W.A.S.P., he wouldn't have wound up in handcuffs.





Title: Re: 14 year old who makes homemade radios and clocks gets arrested in school for?...
Post by: Pigmeat on September 16, 2015, 2310 UTC
Jade Helm is over. The people of Texas need something else wacky to worry about.

Title: Re: 14 year old who makes homemade radios and clocks gets arrested in school for?...
Post by: ChrisSmolinski on September 20, 2015, 1811 UTC
http://blogs.artvoice.com/techvoice/2015/09/17/reverse-engineering-ahmed-mohameds-clock-and-ourselves/ (http://blogs.artvoice.com/techvoice/2015/09/17/reverse-engineering-ahmed-mohameds-clock-and-ourselves/)
Title: Re: 14 year old who makes homemade radios and clocks gets arrested in school for?...
Post by: ff on September 20, 2015, 1959 UTC
Great article Chris!  I started wondering about it all after seeing an NBC newscast interview in Ahmed's home where the boy showed his workbench - a small table built in to the wall in the family den with no tools, no good lighting, and piled high with board games and magazines.  I wrote the book on messy and cluttered workbenches but that one just looked impossible to me.  I still feel bad for the kid though...