Idiots at School Go on Lockdown over Child’s Science Project that has “Wires”

And this is a Science school?

Needs the VP transferred here to be the head, main teacher, substitute and janitor at one of our fine state schools. Preferably where the school is a dilapidated prefab that fell down ten years ago.

He will go back after his year with a renewed appreciation of his worth and abilities, if he goes back at all.

This country is so screwed on so many levels.

The “terrorists” have clearly won.

At my school in 1990 we had a day where they featured collections. We had 2 students bring in at least 50 guns each of various types to show. They had to disable them but the school was EXCITED to have them. No one was injured and no cops showed up. It was a normal day. I would spend 1 day a month sharpening knives in woodshop. Students and teachers alike would bring in their sheath and folding knives for me to sharpen. Nothing more than a small cut ever happened. I’m surprised they allow Chemistry, woodshop, autoshop, music, art and so-on. Anyone of those classes have items that can be used to harm people and property.

If I were that kid I’d be absolutely furious.

Is everyone a terrorist? Why couldn’t one approach the child ask about the item? Look at it? Fricking coward. Probably Vice-Principal Cheney.

Remember the days when doing something on your own initiative was rewarded in school? That’s what this kid did. That’s the kind of thing that resulted in the US becoming the center of innovation and creativity. This kid will never do anything on his own initiative again. This is a perfect example of why we are in decline.

Being an Egg Timer salesman must be really hard when traveling.

I hope his parents can find him a new school with a real science class.

That’s the key. This school is obviously pretending to be a tech school.

To be fair, electronics is not popular in high schools and almost non-existent in middle schools. Why? Because the students don’t want to do math. Thanks to IT classes (Cisco, Microsoft, A+) the truly important stuff, the foundation skills, have largely gone away. There’s some indication electronics will make a return, but not in a big enough way to matter, and HS students creating interesting electronics projects is a thing of the past. This is not good, IMO.

Nothing to see here, get counseling and move along.

Thats all.

#13 Newsflash, you have a new president & vice president. Sheeple!

Does anyone else want more info in the liquid filled motion detection device or is it just me. Not a bad idea for s student. It is amazing what could have been learned is the teachers and administrators had just asked the student.

A few months ago I woke up to helicopters hovering over my house. Three blocks away there is a high school, where an ex-student had brought in several pipe bombs and started throwing them. He was also wearing an explosive vest. The guy was tackled by one of the teachers and kept from detonating himself. All this in a neighborhood where houses start at 1/2 million dollars.

http://ktvu.com/news/20531360/detail.html

In the OP article, a kid brings in a strangely wired device, is interviewed by police and they find other strange devices in the kid’s backpack. Suspicions rise and the school is evacuated while they make sure that the kid is not gun and explosive nut. Well done.

Thus is not a story about terrorism, it is a story about caution based on repeated bad experiences in other schools.

‘…fire officials also went to the student’s home and checked the garage to make sure items there were neither harmful nor explosive. “There was nothing hazardous at the house,” Luque said.’

This is a problem of degrees.

Someone who has dangerous materials but does nothing dangerous in not a danger. The car you drive is a dangerous weapon filled with almost 100 pounds of explosive gas, are you a danger because you have a car?

We all have to use our intelligence and experience to make rational decisions. By the account, the VP acted irrationally.

HE SHOULD HAVE TO PAY FOR THE COST OF OPERATING THE BOMB ROBOT! THE PUNISHMENT NEEDS TO BE MORE SEVERE!

and on, and on, and on. we’re fucked.

Terrorists cannot destroy America. They can only scare America into destroying itself.

@ Awake:

The horrific event you describe, and the tactics used to respond to it IN NO WAY translate as a REASONABLE RESPONSE to the situation described in the story above. Oddly enough, according to your account, a SCHOOL EMPLOYEE, acting with selfless BRAVERY, brought about the safe disarming of the suspect. A suspect who was a FORMER student, who had no approved access or reason to be on the campus IN THE FIRST PLACE. His presence alone indicated a basic breach of campus security. The CHILD in the above story was a STUDENT at the school in question, and had every right to be there, and should have been recognized on some PERSONAL LEVEL by the administrator in question. The kid attends the school DAILY for crying out loud. The VP had only to inquire about the nature of the project, and contact the affiliated teacher, and the child’s PARENTS to discern the non-threatening nature of the project. In related news, The Boy Scouts of America can no longer carry SWISS ARMY KNIVES because of the deadly threat they pose to law-abiding American citizens. I am disgusted with the whining terrorists-in-our-soup mentality that has gripped otherwise reasonable people in this country. Every freedom we strip away out of unreasoning fear is another victory for the comparatively few murderous assholes who hide in cracks and crevices, attempting to change the world by scaring it to death. Stop terrorizing and haranguing our own kids, and each other, and put in place RESPONSIBLE and EFFECTIVE security measures that address actual threats instead of attempting to placate the populace with SECURITY THEATRICS.

Sheesh. If I brought a bottle of water to that school, I guess I would be considered a potential bomber.

‘Cause there’s a red, under my bed
And there’s a little yellow man in my head

A MAST robot took pictures of the device and X-rays were evaluated. About 3 p.m., the device was determined to be harmless.

Gatorade is now terrified that the X-ray pictures will be posted on the internet. In a news release following the incident, a spokesman for Gatorade said, “If God had meant for people to see our naked bottles, we wouldn’t have invented labels.”

“Exactly how stupid are these people? No wonder the kids learn nothing in California schools.”

You mean the principal, the police and the bomb squad. It’s just too bad JCD wasn’t there to set them all straight.

“When police and the Metro Arson Strike Team responded, they also found electrical components in the student’s backpack, Luque said. After talking to the student, it was decided about 1 p.m. to evacuate the school as a precaution while the item was examined.”

RBG

Paranoia! Who says we don’t manufacture anything in this country anymore???

#9 gets my vote and I stopped reading. If you are that ignorant about tech you don’t need to be at a school trying to teach tech because you have no clue.

If this is a tech school the kids should be hauling around projects with wires all the time.

In fact the simple failure to get the teacher to come take a look suggests this person is clueless in more than one way.

A wild over reaction after talking to the student and teacher would have been to take the thing outside and let the bomb squad look it over. Once outside even if the bottle had been full of hydrogen and oxygen the boom wouldn’t have done any damage.

I think its funny that the school officials suggest that the student and parents “seek counseling”. For what? Learning how to live in a society run by fuktards?

I had read somewhere else the authorities were afraid the bottle contained dihydrogen monoxide and you know how dangerous that can be.

So let’s bring this back to partisan wrangling:

Which political party has worked the hardest to install a climate of constant fear in the country?

Anyone? Bueller?

So I guess making the model volcano is no good anymore?

@Phydeau:

Which party says that we should put our trust in the public school system?

Remember – Columbine happened long before Bush took office. That’s the event that ramped up all the “zero tolerance” nonsense.