The Schools Loss Here In My Opinion

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-34324917

This lad seems to be what every school needs...a bright, articulate pupil. What a pity that the school didn't recognise that.

[-Talbot-]

The clock was rubbish and when I heard him speak....articulate was not a word I would use when describing him.

[stuey]

What they all need to do in the Lone Star State is hire themselves a passel of bomb-sniffin' teachers. Ridiculous.

[Baldric]

a Muslim teenager
a homemade clock
mistaken for a bomb

Yes, I suppose it's possible it could happen, I mean I'm guessing the Teacher knew her Pupil ... ... .

[mikey4444]

The school should have a bit of common sense, and that image of a school boy in handcuffs still disgusts me !

[jourdain2]

Complete over-reaction by the school. Agree that it is their loss.

[youngmafbog]

But would it disgust you if it had been real Mickey?

The World is not a nice place, at the present thanks to fanatical Muslims.

If he was that bright then surely he would have realised what could happen.

[Svejk]

The wheels are coming off this story as we post.

[Baldric]

Handcuffs/Restraints are used as much to stop a Prisoner hurting themselves as much as hurting anyone else

[stuey]

Imagine the reaction if the boy had rigged the clock so that as the teacher was examining it the display suddenly lit up BOOM!

[Baldric]

To be fair, the charges have been dropped, so he won't be doing Time

[vulcan42]

A boy makes a clock and takes it to school. Was it part of his lessons, did anybody else take a clock, why did he take it?, from the photograph it looks more like a bomb than a clock. Why is the UN involved, why is he going to the white house, would all this happen to a child that isn't Muslim?

[naomi24]

I don't understand why people from the UN want to meet him - or why he is going to the White House. If it's by way of some sort of apology, it's a bit over the top.

[naomi24]

I think so too, divebuddy.

[Svejk]

Over $100,000 at the moment, db.

[Baldric]

Wonder what he'll take to the White House?

[naomi24]

^Oh my!

[naomi24]

^That was to svejk.

[stuey]

A "normal" child would have just secreted the bomb in a locker and scarpered right outta there.