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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
Because, like I have been saying, I do NOT believe that Zero Tolerance covers "anything that looks electronic" or some similar wording. The teacher HAD to think something was suspicious about the device. They had to suspect him of malicious intent IF (and only if) ZT policy doesn't cover "electronic 7-seg displays" or the like. No bit of Zero Tolerance documentation I have found supports that. I would honestly love for you to prove me wrong.
Zero tolerance includes everything defined as a crime. In Texas it does not matter what Ahmed claimed (and you and I agree 100%, it was a clock!), the device need only "cause concern to an authority figure". All the teacher or administrator need have is a sliver of doubt about what or why and they pass the buck (up) in a CYA exercise, classic bureaucratic behavior. Note that the police did eventually decide Ahmed had no nefarious intent, that he was "harmless". Finding out why they did not release him at school will be interesting - I do not understand why we was detained.

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I think it is important to note that accusing this teacher and administrator of racism in no way accuses other Texans or other adults at the school of racism. I think this goes without saying.
So without any facts you are accusing the teacher and administrator of racism? You say it goes without saying but that is not the tone in the media.
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