Actually, his family wants $15M. $10M from the city, $5M from the ISD.

 

Has anyone seen the list of "damages" the family is claiming? I mean, I don't know, being given admission to one of the most prestigious educations programs and his family paid to move to Qatar for it. If someone paid me to move my kid halfway across the world for an education light-years ahead of anything he could ever hope for in a Texas public school, I'd probably just stop while I was way ahead.

 

I initially defended the kid, and I still salute his ingenuity and think that the school officials and cops who handled the situation look like/are idiots, but I do think his parents quickly recognized this as something they could use to gain notoriety and reap some rewards. Accepting a scholarship to an outstanding educational program in Qatar I can understand, and frankly, I'd have done the same thing. Telling the country that embraced you while you're on a public stage in DC at the President's invitation that you're moving away is bull. For the family to come back and demand millions of dollars after already finding themselves far better off anyway is just insulting.

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