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

[Salvador Garcia]

The "advanced notice" just doesn't convince me. What if a student does mean to cause harm? And he just announces that he'll be bringing in a device that does something innocuous, but hidden in that device is something else, call it a knife, gun, bomb or whatever.


To what extent do school officials have to be trained to detect something harmful? Maybe hire out of work TSA agents? 


The simple solution: No one brings in anything, period. Sad, but ultimately inevitable. 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 12:07 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] OT - Kid gets arrested for building a clock


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.
>
>
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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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