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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It did occur to everyone that this wasn't a bomb.

However, because it had wires they thought that it was something intended to LOOK like a bomb.

They thought the boy was going to hide it somewhere and fake people out to make them scared, i.e. "what was your point in bringing this to school?"

The boy's response ( "It's a clock I made myself, I wanted to show my teachers how I made something out of electronic equipment") just didn't seem believable to the police officers, who kept pressuring him (without his parents present) to admit he had a more sinister purpose (i.e. he made a hoax bomb to scare people)[/quote]

The engineering/science teacher told him to put it away and not get it out in school.  It later beeped in English class.  Wires and circuit boards making a homemade beeping timer object in a briefcase is just not something to bring to school.  He was building a clock but it didn't look like a clock.  What if the thing was on the street in DC [ie area cordoned off with police and bomb squads and building evacuated] or in the airport? Announcements always ask to report suspicious packages.
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Sure, fine.   All these things are reasons why it is understandable that the boy's device was reported, even investigated if school administrators didn't feel themselves capable of determining what the wire/circuit thingy was.   However as the high school HAD an engineering class, I shouldn't think that something with wires and circuits was not allowed in school.   And please keep in mind that MANY objects in school have wires and circuits.

[b]Still, seeing wires and a circuit board, attached to an LED display (the thingy that shows the numbers on a digital clock) might make some fear for their lives.  OK I get it.  Call the police, sure.   BUt once it has been established that this is not a bomb, do not arrest the boy and do not suspend him.[/b]

Also sounds like it might be time to get some more STEM  (the E stands for Engineering) lessons into Texas high schools, and require knowledge basic circuits and batteries (5th grade science curriculum stuff) in Texan schools.
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This. I understand why the teacher would send him to the office with the clock/bomb/wired up thing.   I dont understand why he was arrested. I am glad the police are not pressing charges. I do NOT understand why the school is suspending him.

(I also don't understand why a pop tart gun is worth more than a detention for disruptive, annoying behavior.)[/quote]

Yep, it's the fact that they didn't evacuate, call in explosives experts (who'd have laughed and had a long lunch over it), or do anything to mitigate the perceived risk ... that moves it from "tragic but honest mistake" to "harassment." [/quote]

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