What's more absurd that he was suspended for either a silly prank, or for plugging an alarm clock with exposed wires and a transformer into an AC socket which went off during a class, refused to cooperate with the school administrators, and later then police or that Google invited him to the Science Fair for putting a radio shack clock in a box which put him in the same club as other attendees like 17 year old Olivia Hallisey who got her spot for inventing a new faster, cheaper, and more reliable method of detecting Ebola http://googleforeducation.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/spotlight-o... or 13 year old Pranav Sivakumar who designed a machine learning algorithm that can detect Quasars through gravitational lensing which is now also being used to discover dark matter clusters http://googleforeducation.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/spotlight-o...?

The administration knew it wasn't a bomb. If they actually thought it was a bomb, even slightly, they would have had a bomb drill. They have bomb drills for anonymous phone calls for shit's sake. They knew it was a hoax and he was attention seeking which is why he was sent to the office.

> The administration knew it wasn't a bomb. If they actually thought it was a bomb, even slightly, they would have had a bomb drill.

That may make unwarranted assumptions about competence of the particular officials involved. Though, I'd say that if they thought it was a bomb, then their reaction was just as bad as if they didn't, for a different set of reasons.

What's most absurd is that his parents weren't wise enough (optimistic theory) to tell their kid that this was a very shitty idea.

This is a case of parents using their child as a publicity stunt (pessimistic theory).

That's irrelevant to the question of Ahmed's intent