A major problem is that some school administrations are total morons, like the one in Irving, Texas.

If you have seen the picture put out by the Irving PD, that is not what the student brought to school. He built his clock and had it inside the pencil box. He never said it was a bomb, so I don’t understand why the police arrested him. It was the teachers and administrators who said it was a bomb which constitutes a ‘bomb hoax’.

This is an international story with the BBC reporting Ahmed Mohamed’s huge invite list – Facebook, White House, Twitter.

Bombs with timers are extremely rare this century, with cellphones, and remote controllers the choice of terrorists and other people of ill intent. If you called in the police for every student with a cellphone, a garage door opener, or a remote key for a car, you would empty the high schools and fill up the jails.

The school district has refused to admit they screwed up and have given Ahmed a three-day suspension. I doubt he cares at this point because he has already indicated that he isn’t going back to that school, nor does he need to.

[You really need to check out the BBC article because the snark is strong among the reactions to this situation.]

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