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

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Originally Posted by Monochron View Post
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 many ways, the zero tolerance rules at local schools are worse than the TSA. They automatically pass almost everything up to the police. This is what I'm saying - the automatic escalation from teacher to administration to police is an entirely bureaucratic response. Many in this thread are asserting some sort of -ism is involved and that may be but it would not be the school at fault but the police. Even charging the police with -isms is a stretch w/o more information since the police also have standard operating procedures. In this case the police decided not to act further. How did the police treat the student? We don't really know. I agree with you that the local police end up being less strict than the TSA (who can sniff test things they don't understand). I disagree about the requirement for security - a bomb or gun or hoax on a plane or in a school are both great risks.
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