11-24-2015, 11:58 AM
I don't know if Ahmed Mohamed was just a geeky tech kid who inadvertently caused school staff to suspect that his clock-in-a-box engineering project was a hoax bomb, or if he was looking for attention by leading school staff to that conclusion.
Whichever the case, I don't believe he and his family could have predicted that the kid would be arrested, interrogated without his parents, booked and suspended.
In any event, Ahmed got his 15 minutes of fame when the story went viral. And, he got offers of future employment from heads of major technology companies. And, he got to travel to the White House and meet the President. And, he got a scholarship to a technical institute in Qatar where he and his family are now residing.
I don't believe that his family is deserving of the $10,000,000 payment that they are now demanding from the city of Irving, Texas nor the $5,000,000 they are now demanding from the school district. http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Muslim-...55461.html
Whichever the case, I don't believe he and his family could have predicted that the kid would be arrested, interrogated without his parents, booked and suspended.
In any event, Ahmed got his 15 minutes of fame when the story went viral. And, he got offers of future employment from heads of major technology companies. And, he got to travel to the White House and meet the President. And, he got a scholarship to a technical institute in Qatar where he and his family are now residing.
I don't believe that his family is deserving of the $10,000,000 payment that they are now demanding from the city of Irving, Texas nor the $5,000,000 they are now demanding from the school district. http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Muslim-...55461.html