I DON'T KNOW

[sally]

Maybe the school should check their policies in that case. If they don't want kids making things that beep and tick maybe they shouldn't have a robotics class.

I think the problem was showing it outside of the engineering lab because it could qualify as a "suspicious looking device" to a lay person. And, it did.



Ahmed said he brought the clock, which he had fashioned with a digital face in an inexpensive box, to school on Monday to show to an engineering teacher, who said it was “nice” but then told him that he should not show the invention to other teachers.

But when it beeped during an English class, Ahmed revealed the device to his English teacher, according to an account in The Dallas Morning News. “She was like, it looks like a bomb,” he said. Ahmed reportedly told her, "it doesn't look like a bomb to me, it looks like a clock."

He's 14. This part bothers me most: He said he was fingerprinted, and mug shots were taken at a juvenile detention center. He was not allowed to call his parents but was released when they came to get him.

Full story: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/17/us/tex....html?_r=0

So the engineering teacher said it was nice but don't show it to other teachers? WTF was the kid supposed to do when it started beeping and the English teacher asked what that noise is? I see this as the school's failure to follow policy, not his. If it was going to cause a problem the engineer teacher should have said to keep the project in his classroom and pick it up after school.

I'm failing to see why the kid should be punished when a teacher at that school assigned the project and accepted the project.