Quote:Well... someone did say the world was going to end in September!


People keep thinking this was a briefcase sized thing (How did he fit it in his backpack?).  It's the size of a pencil box (a pencil box was used as a case in fact I believe).

 

Students should be encouraged for this sort of thing.  Taking things apart, and learning how they work is a good way to learn.  I know my wife has a student in one of her classes who loves doing that sort of thing, and even though my wife knows absolutely nothing about most electronics she's always up to listening to her student talk to her about it.  Students need encouragement, especially when they don't get it from home.  But even when they do, getting input from a teacher on a project, or even advice is a great help.  I know growing up I had teachers who encouraged me.  One thing our teachers need to be doing is encouraging kids.  It's not always easy, because class sizes are getting outrageous.  

 

Absolutely these kids should be encouraged to to this sort of thing.  Ever since I was a young kid I was taking things apart and experimenting.  I can remember blowing fuses (as opposed to tripping a breaker) in my home as a youngster while messing with electronic stuff.

 

We should look at one important matter as it relates to politics and this story.  Our current education system is in serious trouble, and something like common core doesn't solve anything.  This story also highlights what we should be teaching our children.  It should be a 21st Century education, not a 20th Century education.  Nobody is saying that the basics are not important, but someone that graduates from high school should be better prepared to enter into an entry level job, and should have the basic fundamentals of how this world works right now.  These kids today know how to use the smart phones that many of them possess.  They can operate and use a "smart TV" or a DVD player better than most "older" people can.  It's often brought up about working for McDonnalds and how that's an entry position into the working world.  What do companies like fast food restaurants use?  It's not a cash register like what I grew up with, it's a computer.

 

What if kids graduating knew not only how that computer works in the fast food restaurant, what if they knew how the computer that runs most modern cars on the road right now works?

 

The kid in the OP is far ahead of the game, and the administrators and police are still stuck back in the 20th Century.

 

The only candidate for President that I've heard talk about the future is Marco Rubio.  All others seem to be fixated on the past.

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