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14 year-old boy arrested for creating a digital clock
wraith808:
but if you ignore the context of recent history, you're just leaving out too much.
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Bingo! :Thmbsup:
-nosh (September 16, 2015, 06:55 PM)
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I'd disagree. Looking at the item in question, you can see that there are no explosives. And the original teacher told him "not to show it to anyone" without telling him why. So the original teacher knew, and even after he told the sequence of events, was not consulted. And they took him away in handcuffs.
A little more common sense and a little less alarmism would have defused this situation before it escalated to the point that it did. After all, if he really was an extremist and they really did think it was a problem- why wasn't the school evacuated? Why was the item taken without a EOD specialist being there first? The excuses don't add up.
40hz:
One word: Grandstanding.
This wasn't an overreaction. This was a place called Irving TX suddenly deciding they would 'send a message.' Even if it still isn't all that clear what the message was trying to say.
And now that the expected nationwide support won't be forthcoming, expect to see some self-righteous justifications, convoluted rationalizations, a hefty dose of doublespeak, and the tiniest bit of resentful back pedaling coming out of Irving over the next few days.
;)
wraith808:
The largest problem I see with technology is the speed of the world. There was a bit with a terribly named product on DriveThruRPG recently. It blew up over the weekend. The company decided to slow things down, take time to download and read the product, and talk to the vendor. They were lambasted that it wasn't down immediately. Everything moves so fast- too fast when you can't let someone sort things out in business hours.
I see the same thing here... one teacher said "ooh, it could be a bomb!" and the ball was rolling at hypersonic speed. No one, at any point, said "Hey, let's slow this down for a minute and think that this is a 14-year old boy, and we're setting an example to all of the students here". In an e-mail they sent to the parents, they said "Talk to your child about what is inappropriate to bring to school." A clock that he created from a circuit board for a school project is therefore "inappropriate"?
And now that the expected nationwide support won't be forthcoming, expect to see some self-righteous justifications, convoluted rationalizations, a hefty dose of doublespeak, and the tiniest bit of resentful back pedaling coming out of Irving over the next few days.
-40hz (September 16, 2015, 09:02 PM)
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I'm getting my popcorn now. Because anything else isn't going to do anything, so I might as well get some use out of the flames as I fiddle... *sigh*
wraith808:
Not really a basement topic as it refers to tech... and especially since the relocation of the basement link has pretty much turned it into a wasteland.
* wraith808 sighs
Stoic Joker:
A little more common sense and a little less alarmism would have defused this situation before it escalated to the point that it did. After all, if he really was an extremist and they really did think it was a problem- why wasn't the school evacuated? Why was the item taken without a EOD specialist being there first? The excuses don't add up.-wraith808 (September 16, 2015, 08:31 PM)
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+1000 - Damn Straight. It's pretty fucking sad when the people tasked with teaching our children how to act don't even know how to themselves.
One word: Grandstanding. -40hz (September 16, 2015, 09:02 PM)
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Sadly true.
This wasn't an overreaction. This was a place called Irving TX suddenly deciding they would 'send a message.' Even if it still isn't all that clear what the message was trying to say.-40hz (September 16, 2015, 09:02 PM)
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Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by ignorance ... Which these folks have exhibited in spades..
This is more of a fear biting/contagious hysteria type of thing me thinks.
And now that the expected nationwide support won't be forthcoming, expect to see some self-righteous justifications, convoluted rationalizations, a hefty dose of doublespeak, and the tiniest bit of resentful back pedaling coming out of Irving over the next few days.-40hz (September 16, 2015, 09:02 PM)
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As long as the kid gets support from the masses, I'd say we're on the right track.
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