[hackerspaces] Irving Texas student suspended for bringing a circuitry-control clock project to school

[Morgan Gangwere]

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On Wed, 16 Sep 2015 04:56:48 -0700
Mitch Altman <maltman23@> wrote:

> WTF? 
> 
> This guy needs to be encouraged, not discouraged. 
> 
> I got the Dallas Makerspace address from hackerspaces.org.  According
> to Google Maps, it's a 22 minute drive to Irving (or a 3 hour 41
> minute walk). 
> 
> I'll email someone there, and see if they can contact Ahmed. 
> 
> Best, 
> Mitch. 

Sadly, this is Texas. Dallas Makerspace will be happy to have him, as
will every other hackerspace in an 0xFFFFFFFF kilometer radius, but
otherwise? Being a kid in some parts of Texas with the name "Ahmed
Mohamed" is a target roughly the size of being an Issei in San
Francisco shortly after Perl Harbor was hit. 

(I tread very carefully with that statement; you'll see why)

I'm mixed on seeing various groups step in. On one hand, this is a case
of discrimination at its core; on the other, it's Texas, and it has a
very low chance of changing anything out of this.

Sad to say this will either make history in a good way or simply blip
on the radar.

Either way, that school may well have killed a kids' interest in STEM
permanently. 

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Morgan ``indrora'' Gangwere
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