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Re: Can someone in the Irving TX area "draft" this young man?

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Originally Posted by wireties View Post
I once tried to take a similar set of H/W through (custom FPGA boards, a test harness but no batteries) the Tel Aviv airport. It cost me an entire day (was delayed 6 hours but next flight was the next day) while they asked a person to come in who was qualified to tell them my stuff was not dangerous! The same H/W usually gets me a dusting and a explosives test in most US airports, but not always. And I'm an old white guy.

Blame the bureaucracy and impeach the Irving mayor for stupidity.
I think the situation of airport security and highschool classroom security aren't all that comparable. The security measures that are in place in airports can be mandated by the government and are almost universally more strict than a Texas high school. Metal detectors, fully body scanners, cavity searches, and the like are not found in Ahmed's school. Bringing a STEM project to school should not require the same screening as bringing one to an airport.

In your case it's clear that skin color had nothing to do with it, you just brought the electronics to a place with astronomical security.