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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 definitely agree that the Zero Tolerance system made this situation significantly worse than it should have been. I'm just not sure that any student with some sort of electronic board in their backpack would be treated the same way. See my above post about the school determining that Ahmed had malicious intents. If the letter of the Zero Tolerance law is "if you suspect something to be a bomb, you must report it to the police", then the school still suspected him of malicious intent.
I see what you are saying. I doubt the school ever thought it was a real bomb or they would have evacuated the school. But even perpetrating a silly hoax is not legal in Texas. And like I said above I have been treated with some suspicion in airports for unusual looking stuff in my luggage. And I'm not brown or young or Muslim.

I think the kid did a silly thing. His engineering teacher told him to put it away and he didn't. But 14 year olds, of all colors, do silly things all the time. Then the bureaucracy reared its ugly head.
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