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Re:14-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to S... by codyb on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @11:23AM (#10227270)
I think thats a very cynical view point which reduces to a platitude an extremely complex issue especially when your evidence primarily appears to concern a smattering of cases among a system which serves millions of children a year.

Technology is very esoteric and almost brand new in a sense. It's been as little as two decades since the advent of schools even having computers.

The fact there are misunderstandings, growing pains, and abuse associated with the system that results should be a foregone conclusion.

The answer isn't to give up on the school system or assume bad intentions by administrators, curriculum developers, or legislators. The only thing that can come of that is an even more broken school system.

Re:14-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to S... by Domenic_S on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @02:42PM (#10228808)
Perhaps, but each family with a child will need to make a decision about how to school that child, and one family doesn't have the power to fix the system.

Tragedy of the Commons and all that. Maybe it's best for society if we don't give up on the public school system, but for my kid, today, given the options I have, is sending them there the best option? Rarely is the answer yes.

Re:14-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to S... by nitrogen on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @12:49PM (#10227969)
It seems we're talking about schools' failure to support exceptional students -- those most likely to make outsized contributions to society when older. So of course we are only looking at exceptional cases.
Re:14-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to S... by 0xdeadbeefbabe on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @11:34AM (#10227361)
It's also a dopey to think the student in this particular case is not getting an education.