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‘They thought it was a bomb': Ahmed Mohamed, Texas 9th grader, arrested after bringing a home-built clock to school
Ahmed Mohamed thought the project would get him noticed by his teachers. Instead, they had him taken out of school in handcuffs.
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Irving MacArthur student arrested after bringing homemade clock to school
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Ahmed Mohamed's father was a Sudanese presidential candidate
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That is so depressing to see since I live in the US and have to be compared with idiots like this. I hope this does not deter Ahmed to keep tinkering.
I live in Texas, so my depression is compounded even further.
This paranoia and the fear mongering fueling it really has got to stop. Unfortunately if the cycles of history are to be believed, it will be another ten years or so before we can really be past all this.
1-31-07
Wow. "Engineering teacher"??? I cannot think of a more detrimental and entirely unproductive thing for an educator to do, WTF?!