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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
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.
As I see it, there is the issue. The teacher is only required to report the clock if it caused him/her concern. AND the teacher knew that reporting it would involve the police and put Ahmed into their custody (I say this because teachers are given training in Zero Tolerance policy procedures in my area and must be intimately familiar with what to do in these situations). Ahmed's electronics project did cause the teacher concern and he/she made the call to involve the police via reporting.

From what I have read, Ahmed was forthcoming with the fact that it was a clock from the beginning. The teacher didn't believe him and was concerned by his project. The teacher distrusted Ahmed's word, and it is hard to see why the teacher would think that escalation, and thus involving the policy, was the right call to make.



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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.
We have been discussing why it could be racism for a couple pages now, there is no need to say I have no facts. We are both presenting our deductions.
And luckily, CD is not the media, and this discussion is not about calling Texan's or other school officials racist. If that is the discussion you want, you should start another thread.