"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.
Talkative to a point of disruption to class, Ahmed...
"...tried to get out of detention by reciting the First Amendment in the principal’s office." ..."While his discipline record is confidential and his father didn’t want to discuss it, the file was thick by some accounts.*****
Ahmed said he was suspended for several weeks in sixth grade. A family friend, Anthony Bond, said the boy and a cousin were blowing soap bubbles in the bathroom, and the school overreacted.
"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." ... "Bond’s letter called the boy’s treatment “Muslim bashing”
"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".
"...“I told you one day I’m going to be — and you told me yourself — I’m going to be really big on the Internet one day,” Ahmed said."
*****
Now, after all is said and done...
Clockmed was not “handcuffed” at school. The only reason his classmates and student population are aware of his notoriety is because he was guided by those he trusted most to go to the media. The fact that clockmed refused to be forthcoming with details to the authorities resulted in self inflicted trauma.
Then talk about CHUTZPAH!
yet...
Despite this: via CNN: "Irving police had held onto the clock as evidence, but on Thursday, they told CNN that it's ready for Ahmed to pick it up." (last week)
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WHO KNEW?! Ahmed is entitled to disrupt class at will – it’s his ‘right’!
*****appears the kid is easily manipulated and ill advised about media celebrity. Any trauma was self inflicted and encouraged by the people he trusted most.
Between the mexican and muslims, this is the Cuban boatlift times a million!!
Only neither of these groups are going to become republicans one day.
“...appears the kid is easily manipulated...”
Looks like it is the other way around — the president of the United States, Zuckerberg (face book billionaire), school district, United States media, European media, etc.