[Coco] OT - Kid gets arrested for building a clock

Wayne Campbell asa.rand at gmail.com
Thu Sep 17 11:40:02 EDT 2015


On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 8:36 AM, Mathieu Chouinard <chouimat at gmail.com>
wrote:

> How can you teach to a kid such thing if most of the adult
> don't even know what "advance notice" is ?
>
>
This is the whole point. We as a society need to start practicing advance
notice so that parents and teachers alike can teach it to our kids. It's
not that we don't kn ow what it is, we just don't think about it.


> On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 11:03 AM, Wayne Campbell <asa.rand at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I have read this entire thread, and there is one thing missing that no
> one
> > has thought of. Something so simple it could be overlooked, especially
> > given that we have never really taught our children to practice it. It's
> > called advance notice. I suspect that if this child had gone to the
> school
> > ahead of time and said, "I have made a clock and want to show it off to
> my
> > class", they would have likely wanted to examine the thing first to
> ensure
> > it is what he claimed it to be, but then he would have been allowed to
> > bring it with no adverse reaction. It was the surprise of bringing it
> > unannounced that set off all of the alarms.
> >
> > In this day and age of paranoia being the driving force, we need to think
> > more about this type of behavior. I have been through enough in my 60
> years
> > to know that I could have saved myself much aggravation over the years
> if I
> > had just spoken to someone before I acted. I think our schools and our
> > parents need to consider teaching this to the kids, and explaining why it
> > is important to inform before acting.
> >
> > My 2 dinars.
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 7:37 AM, Mark J. Blair <nf6x at nf6x.net> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> > On Sep 16, 2015, at 12:23, Raymond Jett via Coco <
> coco at maltedmedia.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Our local Dallas Makerspace (of which I am a member) is collecting for
> >> the Maker Fellowship Fund and is talking with the family about giving
> them
> >> a membership.
> >> > http://dallasmakerspace.org/contribute/maker-fellowship-fund/
> >> > This is a good use of the fund... get the kid into an atmosphere of
> >> creating and learning.
> >>
> >> Thanks for getting involved and helping!
> >>
> >> The idiots in charge of his school clearly didn't think it's an actual
> >> bomb, since they didn't evacuate the school. I hope the principal will
> be
> >> tried as an adult in the inevitable civil rights suit.
> >>
> >>
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> >> Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
> >> http://www.nf6x.net/
> >>
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