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

[William Mikrut]

I agree Wayne.

In this day and age, reasonable advanced notice wouldn't hurt anyone.



On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 10:03 AM, Wayne Campbell <asa.rand at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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