If this story doesn't make you ashamed to be living in the same country as these morons, we don't know what will:
A ninth-grade student in Irving, Texas, was arrested and sent to juvenile detention Monday after bringing a homemade clock to school, according to The Dallas Morning News.
Ahmed Mohamed, a 14-year-old at MacArthur High School who is Muslim, told the outlet he's passionate about robotics and decided to link a circuit board, power supply and digital clock display together inside a pencil case. He brought the device to school hoping to impress some teachers, but the first one who saw the clock immediately told him "not to show any other teachers."
Later that day, Mohamed was pulled out of class and taken to the principal's office. He says he was threatened with expulsion, asked if he tried "to make a bomb" and led out of the school in handcuffs by police officers.As is pointed out in the article, if the child's name were "Jimmy," this would never have escalated into handcuffing and juvenile detention. The picture in the linked article of the child in handcuffs is enough to make your blood boil.
Every yahoo peabrain involved in this outrage, from teacher to principal to police, should be fired and then sued, period. Call it "Zero Tolerance - for Morons."
COOL UPDATE:
Assumptions and fear don't keep us safe—they hold us back. Ahmed, stay curious and keep building. https://t.co/ywrlHUw3g1
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) September 16, 2015
