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

[Wayne Campbell]

I understand what you are saying, Bill. However, it is not always a
middle-eastern descent student that causes the problems. The Columbine
affair was perpetrated by two white boys. While that was guns, not bombs,
the issue is the same. Any child, regardless of his/her ethnicity will be
subject to the same type of adversity when bringing things like this to
school unannounced. I am not saying that the racial aspect is not there. I
am saying it can be more clearly seen and identified as such if all other
motives are removed. Advance notice removes all other reasons/excuses.
There is also the idea that advance notice could result in "no, we don't
think it is a good idea" as the resulting answer. If paranoia runs that
deep, we may never get out of the rut we find ourselves in today.


On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 9:51 AM, Bill Loguidice <bill at armchairarcade.com>
wrote:

> I don't think I agree with the "reasonable advanced notice" thing. It's a
> school. Kids bring things to school. I myself have two out of three school
> age daughters and when they soldered electronic blinking light pins for
> themselves the first time, they brought it into school to show the teacher
> and their friends what they made. This is more a combination of where the
> kid lived, racism, technophobia, etc., than any highlighting of a realistic
> need for a "solution." I don't think something like this would have
> necessarily happened in most other school systems and particularly if the
> kid wasn't who he was. In other words, "reasonable advanced notice"
> side-steps the actual, likely fairly specific, issue.
>
> -Bill
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> On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 12:43 PM, William Mikrut <wmikrut72 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I agree Wayne.
> >
> > In this day and age, reasonable advanced notice wouldn't hurt anyone.
> >
> >
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