Fourteen-year-old Ahmed Mohamed wanted to impress his engineering teacher, so he brought a homemade clock to school. His English teacher was less than enthusiastic when the project started beeping in her classroom. She mistook the device for a bomb. Mohamed was handcuffed, fingerprinted and detained. The chief of police defended this response, saying, “We live in an age when you can’t take things like this to school.” The list of things that aren’t welcome at school is impressive. Schools won’t tolerate anything that looks like a weapon. Last year a seven-year-old was suspended for biting his Pop Tart into the shape of a gun. Hand sanitizer isn’t welcome because of the alcoholic content. In the 90’s schoolkids had Tamagotchis in their pockets and their moms brought cupcakes to class on their birthdays. Today all electronic toys are contraband, as are homemade treats. Don’t even think about packing a PB and J for lunch: there are just too many peanut allergies.
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