Quote:And the school district just got the ultimate smackdown from the highest level: President Obama has invited Ahmed Mohamed, the clock's creator, to the White House.

 

Take that, school district.

Conservative Blog Headlines: President Obama meets with Suspected Bomb Maker >_>


They ended up punishing him for a 'hoax bomb'.  Police say that he wasn't more forthcoming other than saying "It's a clock."  I can only imagine how that interrogation went.


Police: WHAT IS THIS?!


Ahmed: A clock.


Police: What does it do?


Ahmed: It... tells time?


Apparently the police chief said that this was the sort of thing people shouldn't bring to school.  -_-


I asked my wife what she thought about all this.  She said "If the clock went off in my classroom, I might ask him to turn it off.  If he showed it to me, and told me it was a clock I might ask him to show me how it works, and what made him take an interest in it.  Then I'd probably remind him not to let it go off in class, and send him on his way.  If he was evasive about it, I might ask the engineer teacher, or one of the AP's about it."

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