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

[Brian Blake]

The article I read stated he put it together on a Sunday night, hoping to
impress his teacher.

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On Sep 17, 2015 11:29 AM, "Salvador Garcia" <ssalvadorgarcia at netscape.net>
wrote:

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