You have a very interesting way of interpreting that law.
Two key words that you have completely ignored are these: KNOWINGLY and INTENT.
Why did you do that?
Indeed you can discuss if the kid knowingly did that. Point made.
Why do you continue to blame the victim of this outrage, when almost the entire world has spoken out in support of the kid?
No it is not that binary. I don't blame him for the outrage and the rediculous results like the arrest, I agree totally way out of proportion.
That is what the outrage is all about, that is the second part.
I do blame him for the first part, as any other kid (like mine few months ago) from bringing something to school that was not discussed before and should not be there.
School rules dictate what a student may or may not do. And a lot of schools have explicit rules not to bring stuff to school that might disrupt class, like balls, ipads, pets etc.
You can argue what you want but if you want to learn at a school you have to obey school rules.
The whole concept of "innocent until proven guilty" seems to be outside of your ken.
I personally don't find him guilty for producing a hoax bomb, but do find him guilty for crossing school rules and disrupting class as he admitted, the clock beeped in class,
How again can a mains powered clock beep in class? Are we all sure that was an accident and not a prank he ofcourse will now never ever admit?
Are you sure about that? I am not. I am not sure it was an accident, but also not sure it was deliberate. So let's give him the favour of doubt in that one.
If anything, a CHILD should be afforded this right to an even greater extent than an adult.
Agree, most countries already have that. Sentences for children are much less harsh for the same offense as adults.
And the kid's clock was NOT in a "suitcase", but a much smaller "pencil case".
The foto is what was shown, that is what I and you should react on, I don't know pictures of a pencil case and frankly looking at the size of the pcb
I do not think that will fit, do you? Or what kind of pencil cases do they have in Australia? Here they are max. about 15 to 20cm long.
What precisely is your hidden agenda - or are you just pig-headed and simply want to have an argument?
I do not have a hidden agenda I just think and feel that if the police was not called we would not have this discussion, would we?
The whole outrage is over the absurd reaction of the police on this matter. And I agree, rediculous. But that is just the second part of this drama.
I tend to focus on the first. A lot of people here think it is ok to bring anything to school to show off, consequences of that action are for the rest of the world,
not for them. A lot of parents think their kids are great and teachers stupid although the teachers often spent more time with their kids then they do.
They fail to see that it is the kids and their responsibility to prevent such things from happening in the first place.
Why did his father/mother not know that he was bringing this device? Do his parents know what he is doing building? Is there any contact?
Should he have asked if he was allowed to bring the device? I think he should have. Why? Because it is agains school law to do this, he might not know but his parents would.
Now if he asked his father he probably would have said to ask the science teacher first. Then nothing would have happened, maybe even the teacher would have spent an hour
in class to discuss the project. That would have been great.
But I stop now, since obviously I get the impression that everybody here thinks kids should take anything everywhere.
Those that do, check your childs suitcase before taking an international flight or your holiday might look completely different than you imagined.
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