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

[K. Pruitt]

But we are talking about a 14 year old kid trying to impress his new 
teacher. Not exactly an age group motivated by logic and proper reasoning. 
We hire adults to apply the proper reasoning and logic to a situation. Those 
adults have replaced that proper reasoning and logic with a butt-covering, 
pass-the-buck policy called zero-tolerance.

I also firmly believe the response to a request to bring his device to 
school would have been a definite no and probably a visit from the police. 
Nobody wants to be the school administrator who overlooked a potential 
red-flag. We're going to keep seeing more and more of this.

When I was in school the device would have been kept for the day and 
returned to the kid at the end of day with a reminder to not bring it on 
school grounds again. This was the policy for everything from yo-yo's to 
pocket knives to sling-shots. Worked really well for a whole lot of 
generations. Perhaps we've moved too far beyond that simple solution.

Yeah the kid should have known better. But at the end of the day he's just a 
kid. He knows now.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William Mikrut" <wmikrut72 at gmail.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2015 9:43 AM
Subject: Re: [Coco] OT - Kid gets arrested for building a clock


>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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>> > http://www.nf6x.net/
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