A disobedient, disruptive student should not be honored by the President of the United States. After showing the "clock" in a box to his science teacher, the science teacher told Ahmed: "Nice job. DO NOT SHOW IT TO ANYONE ELSE." Instead of obeying the science teacher little Ahmed went to English class and plugged the thing in and it started making noise, disrupting the English class and frightening the poor English teacher, who as one might expect had no idea what the contraption was and why it was being activated in English class. Perhaps if the President and others did not encourage disobedient, disruptive students, something might get accomplished in the public schools. Students might even learn to read and write in English class.
Moreover, it is "more probable than not" that bright young Ahmed's naivete concerning the problematic nature of his contraption is disingenuous, especially after he was warned by the science teacher not to show it to anyone else. That the high school principal and district superintendent are Latino is omitted and for some reason irrelevant to this story, which is being positioned to highlight American racism.
As a parent with children in public schools and a member of their middle school's site council, I'm fed up and infuriated by the disingenuous excuses students and their parents make for bad behavior. Just last month my young daughter went to the nurse's office with her friend who has diabetes and needed an insulin injection. Besides insulin they also keep extra clothes there for children with dress code violations. An irate lady teacher dragged in a boy "by the ear." What did I do wrong wailed the boy. The infuriated teacher yelled: "You have a picture of a woman with naked breasts on your t-shirt!" I could go on and on.
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