Inexcusable over reaction...

The irony of a 9th grader being arrested because he took a clock he made to school is not only big, but quite disheartening as well.

One should think that schools would a place a student should be able to bring something like that without fear, specially of being arrested and suspended because of it. As a matter of fact, the reaction one would expect from the teachers and other staff would be the opposite. I mean, they should be quite interested in fostering that kind of skills and mentality on their students for the better.

This issue is made even worse, when one takes into account that the US is starting to lag behind other developed countries on that skill set. Not only that, many of the teenagers and kids are loosing interest on perusing and engineering or science degree stuff like this will only push them further away from those fields.

Schools should be one of those places where their students could safely share and practice building things like that. Specially, since schools are one of those places where they can be guided by people who have the knowhow to put them on the right track to be able to safely do those things.

Also, they can form groups with their peers who have the same interest so they can achieve more than they could do on their own.

That the reaction on this matter by this school was this, is something that should be frown upon and that shouldn't be repeated. There should be an official apology, by both the school officials and the police because of this incident.