Student suspended for Pro 2 Amendment project

[Regular_Atheist]

If only he had gutted a clock and put its components into a briefcase so that it resembled a suitcase bomb.

Are people still mad about this? I think it’s kind of sad that grown adults are still bitter that a 14 year old boy was given some preferential treatment to make up for what was probably a somewhat stressful experience. It was never about the clock itself. I don’t believe the student in the article should have been suspended, however, and I’m not sure I really understand the school’s position.

 

[minion]

I guess it’s true what they say, the 1st amendment is only protected by the 2nd.

 

[oliver927]

from the nj.com article

“She said my project would be perfectly fine,” said Harvey, "I presented the video to the class and took a few questions from my classmates. My presentation went over well. The whole idea of the assignment was to expose students to an idea they hadn’t considered before.

Sounds like there is a whole class room of witnesses to determine if the student or the teacher is telling the truth.

 

[starshiptrooper]

Are people still mad about this? I think it’s kind of sad that grown adults are still bitter that a 14 year old boy was given some preferential treatment to make up for what was probably a somewhat stressful experience. It was never about the clock itself.

I bet that the school faculty and students also had a somewhat stressful experience due to the actions of that young provocateur.

I don’t believe the student in the article should have been suspended, however, and I’m not sure I really understand the school’s position.

It is simple, the student is a pro-gun white male. Therefore they will make an example of him because he is not a member of a protected class.

 

[zz912]

Are people still mad about this? I think it’s kind of sad that grown adults are still bitter that a 14 year old boy was given some preferential treatment to make up for what was probably a somewhat stressful experience. It was never about the clock itself. I don’t believe the student in the article should have been suspended, however, and I’m not sure I really understand the school’s position.

Yes, people still are upset about that incident. Everything about the incident was a lie, and people still pretend that it was real. So as long as people still pretend it is real, and as long as his family is still suing people over it, reasonable people will be upset by it.

To reiterate:

1. He did not make a clock. He took the casing off of an old alarm clock.
2. He put the guts of the clock in a locked briefcase/pencil case with wires hanging out, intentionally making it look like a bomb.
3. He was not doing a school project. He did this on his own, as he claimed, to impress his engineering teacher.
4. He took the “project” to another classroom where it started beeping. When the teacher saw what it was, she rightly called in the administration.
5. He repeatedly refused to answer questions from the police and was intentionally unresponsive.
6. His sister was involved in another bomb hoax incident as well.

The entire incident was a manufactured hoax intending to cause a reaction, and also to intimidate other people from reporting real incidents to police.

 

[XndrK]

For those that actually care, this is a video of the presentation he made. Note it is from 5 months ago (i.e. last school year).

wevideo.com/view/639013890

Sarcasm mode on.

Let’s give a list of reasons why the video is dangerous and proof of psychological imbalance:

1. 
   *]The opening slide reads “About Guns” and lasts 15 seconds. Anyone who thinks it takes any more than five seconds to read those words must have contempt for others’ intelligence.
   *]The slide titles do not follow proper punctuation and capitalization convention, implying a disrespect of authority.
   *]Other text-wall slides also have the same 15-second length, forcing readers to press the pause button on the video and causing them inconvenience: further sign of sadistic tendencies.
   *]Political cartoons cited in video contain mild swearing, showing disrespect for conventions of courtesy and by extension anarchist tendencies.
   
   Obviously, this person deserves nothing less than five hours of thorough psychological examination.