Ahmed's Clock

Continually amazed at what goes on in this country! 

First, why has everyone cried "racism"?  If any other color of student brought that same contraption to school, I feel that the same thing would have happened. Is there no one in a position of authority in our schools that has common sense?  Why would you call the police without finding out the facts first?

Our government has taken away the right of schools and school officials to make any disciplinary decisions.  If this kid took it to show his teacher, didn't the teacher know him?  Don't teachers know which kids are normal and which ones are "out there"?  And why were his parents not called first?  Obviously they are middle-upper class people.  If this kid made a "bomb" or a "hoax bomb", why on earth would he show it to a teacher?  Kids who do that usually don't volunteer that they have a bomb, or at least not to a teacher.

This comes from the government meddling in private lives way too much.  When my son was 7, yes SEVEN, he was sent to the principal's office for shooting spit wads.  I had to go see the principal for spit wads.  In my day, the teacher would have promptly handled the situation without a call to the parents or notification of the principal - they would have told me to knock it off.  They might have made me stay in from recess.  They may have had me wash the wall.  But they wouldn't have contacted the principal.  I don't get why teachers immediately throw up their hands and bow out of every situation.  Are they not allowed to handle those things?

And if this kid showed this clock to his teacher, did the teacher not examine it?  I just don't get it.  Most likely he didn't show this to his P.E. teacher or his English teacher - I assume he showed it to a physics or chemistry teacher, one who would have been interested in his invention. 

Why is is that every thing that happens today is immediately directed at discrimination?  I don't feel that was the case here, but I don't know why the police were called.