[Coco] OT - Kid gets arrested for building a clock

[Salvador Garcia]

Did the article mention this? I agree with you, although the adverse reaction was still too extreme.


On first read I do not recall the article mentioning that the student just brought the clock out of thin air or whether he had had any kind of previous discussion about it with someone at the school. Maybe I missed it?


Salvador




-----Original Message-----
From: Wayne Campbell <asa.rand at gmail.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Thu, Sep 17, 2015 10:03 am
Subject: Re: [Coco] OT - Kid gets arrested for building a clock


I have read this entire thread, and there is one thing missing that no one
has
thought of. Something so simple it could be overlooked, especially
given that we
have never really taught our children to practice it. It's
called advance
notice. I suspect that if this child had gone to the school
ahead of time and
said, "I have made a clock and want to show it off to my
class", they would have
likely wanted to examine the thing first to ensure
it is what he claimed it to
be, but then he would have been allowed to
bring it with no adverse reaction. It
was the surprise of bringing it
unannounced that set off all of the alarms.

In
this day and age of paranoia being the driving force, we need to think
more
about this type of behavior. I have been through enough in my 60 years
to know
that I could have saved myself much aggravation over the years if I
had just
spoken to someone before I acted. I think our schools and our
parents need to
consider teaching this to the kids, and explaining why it
is important to inform
before acting.

My 2 dinars.


On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 7:37 AM, Mark J. Blair
<nf6x at nf6x.net> wrote:

>
> > On Sep 16, 2015, at 12:23, Raymond Jett via Coco
<coco at maltedmedia.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Our local Dallas Makerspace (of which I
am a member) is collecting for
> the Maker Fellowship Fund and is talking with
the family about giving them
> a membership.
> >
http://dallasmakerspace.org/contribute/maker-fellowship-fund/
> > This is a good
use of the fund... get the kid into an atmosphere of
> creating and
learning.
>
> Thanks for getting involved and helping!
>
> The idiots in charge
of his school clearly didn't think it's an actual
> bomb, since they didn't
evacuate the school. I hope the principal will be
> tried as an adult in the
inevitable civil rights suit.
>
>
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>
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