http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/16/us/texas-student-ahmed-muslim-clock-bomb/
Recently a Irving ISD freshman student at MacArthur high school had been accused for what seem to look like a bomb being brought to school .The student had created this clock to impress his science teacher but one of his teachers thought the clock look like a bomb, so the teacher called security to stay under protocol in such situations . The security put him in handcuffs and took them out of the school very forcefully. Also the school had suspended ha ha also the school had suspended Ahmad for bringing a clock/"bomb" to school. Many people think that this is a religious discrimination against Muslims in the Irving ISD platform . There has been very much controversy about this to whether or not this could have been a religious discrimination or not .
I feel that it's OK to take protocol but there's an extent to taking protocol to the next level by suspending the student for trying to impress his teacher . I feel in our school districts with in the whole United States that we should push our students to want to learn and impress our teachers by creating things that are useful In an engineering aspect so that they can learn and grow and want to succeed . Well I feel by punishing the student by suspending him they are stopping his learning while he is gone others are learning and he is trying to succeed on his own with out a system support system behind him in an educational environment . As a student personally I would prefer to be in an environment where the teacher said ported me learning and trying to educate myself outside of school to impress them each and every day then to degrade my hard work when I was trying to personally without being asked do a project to impress them . I can understand how they might think this is being considered a racial discrimination because there have been many controversies and incidents with in this ISD about the discrimination against Muslims especially so I see how they can think that this is a racial issue.
I think it is important for schools to embrace and encourage students' creativity. Although I understand the initial concern, I don't think it was necessary for it to go so out of hand.
ReplyDelete- Victoria Garza