A kid wearing a NASA teeshirt, member of the robotics club, misses his student council meeting because he was arrested in a government school for bringing a simple circuit that devised to tell time. Seriously, guys, if you don’t give this guy the presumption of innocence, I’d say there’s some pretty distorted prejudice. His accusers are government school teachers and Irving cops. Both groups routinely blow things way out of proportion: government school teachers with zero tolerance nonsense, and Irving cops with unwarranted roadside cavity searches (aka, raping citizens).
At 11 a.m. CDT, the Irving cops and school system have a press conference. We may just learn the facts of the matter then.
YES! Thank you. Sure, this is a troublesome demographic. But IF this kid is innocent, the school and police just made it a little harder for him to believe that the US really is about freedom, our common law traditions, and so forth.
Of course, we have reached critical mass WRT to ignorant and thoughtless teachers in state schools. The good ones are in the minority and are pressured to be mediocre. So a circuit board without anything that could be an explosive on it is taken by the wonderously stupid school as a potential ... bomb!
Oooh, transistors! LEDs! Beepy noises just like in the MOVIES! Everybody under his desk, STAT!