This arrest, clearly, should never have happened. But one would like to expect at least that the Irving school, after just a cursory glance at the clock and maybe a conversation with Mohamed's engineering teacher, who had praised the project, would realize its mistake. That the school would apologize to Mohamed for humiliating and terrorizing him, acknowledge its mistake, and use it as a teaching moment to discuss racism and profiling.
That is not what has happened. Instead, even after learning that the clock was just a clock built as an educational project, the school suspended Mohamed for three days and sent out this letter to parents on Tuesday:.
Hoping to show off his tech skills to teachers at his school in Irving, Texas, by bringing in a homemade clock, 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed was https://www.eyeem.com/u/vinnmatguid instead arrested on suspicion of building a “hoax bomb.” When The Dallas Morning News interviewed Ahmed in his room, he was “fiddling with a cable while a soldering iron dangled from the shelf behind him.” In case his Maker cred needed any more cementing than that, note the t-shirt he was wearing when he was brought to juvenile detention.
The letter, which acknowledges no mistake whatsoever on the school's part even though by then school officials knew the clock was harmless, is infuriating to read for its tone-deafness.
It seems to imply that Mohamed was at fault for violating the "Student Code of Conduct." The letter also asks students to "immediately report any suspicious items and / or suspicious behavior," in effect asking students and parents help to perpetuate the school's practice of racist profiling, even after that profiling had been clearly demonstrated as without merit. It is appalling that school officials would still think this way even after their arrest had been exposed as a horrible mistake, but it is especially telling that they would wish to announce this fact to students' parents as well.
At Wednesday's CNN debate, Carly Fiorina did what no other Republican has been able to do: she stopped Donald Trump cold.
CNN's Jake Tapper provided the https://www.codeplex.com/site/users/view/vinnmatguid opening. "In an interview last week in Rolling Stone magazine, Donald Trump said the following about you. Quote, 'Look at that face. Would anyone vote for that? Can you imagine that, the face of our next president?' Mr. Trump later said he was talking about your persona, not your appearance. Please feel free to respond what you think about his persona."
Fiorina didn't flinch. "I think women all over this country heard very clearly what Mr. Trump said."
That is not what has happened. Instead, even after learning that the clock was just a clock built as an educational project, the school suspended Mohamed for three days and sent out this letter to parents on Tuesday:.
Hoping to show off his tech skills to teachers at his school in Irving, Texas, by bringing in a homemade clock, 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed was https://www.eyeem.com/u/vinnmatguid instead arrested on suspicion of building a “hoax bomb.” When The Dallas Morning News interviewed Ahmed in his room, he was “fiddling with a cable while a soldering iron dangled from the shelf behind him.” In case his Maker cred needed any more cementing than that, note the t-shirt he was wearing when he was brought to juvenile detention.
The letter, which acknowledges no mistake whatsoever on the school's part even though by then school officials knew the clock was harmless, is infuriating to read for its tone-deafness.
It seems to imply that Mohamed was at fault for violating the "Student Code of Conduct." The letter also asks students to "immediately report any suspicious items and / or suspicious behavior," in effect asking students and parents help to perpetuate the school's practice of racist profiling, even after that profiling had been clearly demonstrated as without merit. It is appalling that school officials would still think this way even after their arrest had been exposed as a horrible mistake, but it is especially telling that they would wish to announce this fact to students' parents as well.
At Wednesday's CNN debate, Carly Fiorina did what no other Republican has been able to do: she stopped Donald Trump cold.
CNN's Jake Tapper provided the https://www.codeplex.com/site/users/view/vinnmatguid opening. "In an interview last week in Rolling Stone magazine, Donald Trump said the following about you. Quote, 'Look at that face. Would anyone vote for that? Can you imagine that, the face of our next president?' Mr. Trump later said he was talking about your persona, not your appearance. Please feel free to respond what you think about his persona."
Fiorina didn't flinch. "I think women all over this country heard very clearly what Mr. Trump said."