Texas Teen Still Suspended Despite No Charges, Will Change Schools

Re:Texas Teen Still Suspended Despite No Charges, Will Chang... by rayiner on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @07:00PM (#10230552)

The more I think about it, the more I'm skeptical that the teachers were too dumb to tell a circuit board apart from a bomb. He could have gotten in trouble for making something that looked like a bomb even if nobody that it was one. Just as in most schools kids get in trouble for making (or even drawing) things intended to look like guns even when it's totally clear to everyone that it isn't an actual gun.

That's a stupid policy too, but a different kind of stupid.

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Re:Texas Teen Still Suspended Despite No Charges, Will Chang... by pvg on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @10:58PM (#10231338)

The first teacher who saw the clock told him not to show it around. They definitely knew it wasn't a bomb. It's not even that hard to have some sympathy for the teachers or even school administrators who are subject to all sorts of stupid policies. The insane thing seems to be that in the entire chain of escalation from teacher to principal to police nobody appears to have thought of some better way to resolve the situation than handcuffing a 14 year old at school and carting him off to juvie.

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Re:Texas Teen Still Suspended Despite No Charges, Will Chang... by gyardley on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @07:11PM (#10230605)

Yep, you're probably right - this is on par with that six-year-old who nibbled his way to a semiautomatic PopTart.

Zero percent tolerance, one hundred percent stupidity.

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