Not outside the realm of possibility. He seems to be a highly functioning kid with ADD who often found trouble and was bullied for being muslim. Within a couple years of learning english he was citing the first amendment to the principle in an effort to get out of detention.CID1990 wrote:I for one believe it was intentional. That is what I was alluding to before.Ibanez wrote: Why do you think it was intentional? What is there for him to gain? To highlight the weak security of his school?
I admit, I'm giving a stranger the benefit of the doubt.
I think this kid brought this gadget (which was an electronic clock with the cover removed.... he didn't build it - he took the cover off an existing clock) to school with the intention of getting a rise out of school officials
when he was questioned about it he became intentionally coy and evasive
This kid got exactly what he and his father wanted and more- to prove a point about "bigotry against muslins" based on the reaction
and they got an unexpected invite to the White House from President "They Acted Stupidly If I Had A Son Trayvon Sure Wish I HAd Advisors Who Would Tell Me To Keep My Mouth Shut"
And he also had a history of bringing homemade gadgets to school long before this incident.
http://www.dallasnews.com/news/communit ... hority.ece" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;Not that the preteen was a full-time philosopher. Another teacher remembered Ahmed after school: He and his friends would line up on opposite ends of a field, careen into each other at full speed, then get up and do it again.
But Ahmed’s intelligence shone through in the classroom, in robotics club, and in the homemade inventions he would often cram into his backpack.
Some of his middle school teachers were surprised to hear that MacArthur High staff called police this month after Ahmed brought a homemade clock to class. He had dragged far more elaborate gizmos into Sam Houston all the time.
When a seemingly possessed projector kept shutting off midlecture, young boys’ snickers surrounded Ahmed’s desk, where he sat with a hand-built remote control in his lap.
When a tutor’s cellphone went dead, Ahmed’s jerry-rigged battery charger brought it back to life.
Some of these creations looked much like the infamous clock — a mess of wires and exposed circuits stuffed inside a hinged case, perhaps suspicious to some. But no one interviewed by The Dallas Morning News remembered Ahmed getting into trouble for bringing his creations to Sam Houston........
A larger boy had been choking Ahmed, Bond wrote. What’s more: “Ahmed also alleges that everyday, students in the school are calling him ‘Bacon Boy and Sausage Boy and ISIS Boy.’”
Ahmed blamed an administrator at the school who, Bond wrote, the boy felt “has been terrorizing him since the 6th grade” — hindering him from praying in school and unfairly punishing him. The News is not naming the administrator because it has not yet been able to investigate Ahmed’s complaints.
Bond’s letter called the boy’s treatment “Muslim bashing” — previewing outrage from people across the world after Ahmed blamed Islamophobia for his handcuffing this month.
Bertha Whatley, who was Irving ISD’s attorney last year, said “high-level” officials at the district reviewed Bond’s letter. Bond said the principal overturned the suspension after meeting with Ahmed.
Kubiak was no longer Ahmed’s teacher in eighth grade, but he said the two still talked in the hallways nearly every day. Discussions of politics or religion sometimes turned to his resentment at the powers that be. “His eyes were pretty watered up” the day he told Kubiak he was being bullied, the teacher said.
“This kid was being pushed. At least he thought he was being pushed,” Kubiak said. “He’s got a habit for attracting or being in situations — being on the outside.”
Ahmed wasn’t the only one.
Kubiak, the eternal civil rights ideologue, was growing uncomfortable with Sam Houston’s administration. He complained to the superintendent that the school was too quick to suspend children and said he refused to use a new student evaluation system that “wrote some kids off.” He was booted down to teach sixth grade last year — and he knew he was done.
