{"id":4312,"date":"2015-09-17T12:27:28","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T17:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rebeccafrech\/?p=4312"},"modified":"2015-09-17T12:27:28","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T17:27:28","slug":"about-ahmed-mohamed-and-his-clock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rebeccafrech\/2015\/09\/about-ahmed-mohamed-and-his-clock.html","title":{"rendered":"About Ahmed Mohamed and His Clock"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

We live relatively close to Irving, Texas (it\u2019s on the other side of the Dallas area) and all anyone here can talk about is Ahmed Mohamed and his clock.<\/p>\n

If you don\u2019t know who he is, he\u2019s an engineering genius child who built a homemade digital clock and brought it to school to show his teachers. They thought it looked like a bomb and called the police. Ahmed was arrested, and the whole world seems to be reaching out to this child and verbally smacking the school officials around for their stupidity.<\/p>\n

I see nothing wrong with any of that. What happened to him was wrong. Period.<\/p>\n

There are a lot of reasons why the teachers might have been twitchy about his engineering project \u2013 1) It really does kind of look like a bomb. 2) All of those teachers have memories of Columbine. 3) They all are aware of what\u2019s going on in the world and people names Mohamed seem to be blowing stuff up a lot.<\/p>\n

You can debate whether or not they were wrong and it was racist, but I think that\u2019s the secondary discussion we need to be having.<\/p>\n

All of these educators be fired. They thought some kid had brought a good-sized bomb to school, and nobody evacuated the school.<\/p>\n

Which means either they were reckless with the safety of the students in their care, or they never really though that it was a bomb after all.<\/p>\n<\/iframe>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We live relatively close to Irving, Texas (it\u2019s on the other side of the Dallas area) and all anyone here can talk about is Ahmed Mohamed and his clock. 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