So a 9th Grader Walks into School with a Homemade Clock
And apparently school officials in Texas overreacted. Just a little bit. From the Washington Post: Ahmed Mohamed just wanted to impress his teachers with a homemade invention. The story of what happened next has made the 14-year-old from Irving, Tex., the object of national outrage and attention. Eager to show off to his engineering teacher, Mohamed walked into MacArthur High School on Monday morning with his hastily assembled invention: A digital clock. Hours later, the ninth-grader was escorted out of the school in police custody after teachers mistook the device for a bomb. Note; he showed it to his engineering teacher who thought it was cool but warned him not to show any other teachers. But it beeped in English class, he showed it to the teacher who said it looked like a bomb. They took him out wearing a NASA t-shirt and handcuffs. Twitter and social media is exploding with this story - #IStandWithAhmed. President Obama tweeted: