Moron Alert
The stupidity is getting harder to keep up with:
A San Diego school vice-principal saw an 11-year-old's home science project (a motion detector made out of an empty Gatorade bottle and some electronics), decided it was a bomb, wet himself, put the school on lockdown, had the bomb-squad come out to destroy X-ray the student's invention and search his parents' home, and then magnanimously decided not to discipline the kid (though he did recommend that the child and his parents get counselling to help them overcome their anti-social science behavior).
I have a better idea: fire the idiot vice principal, congratulate the student for trying to build a cool science project, and send the entire staff at that school back to grade school. Or let them and the students swap places.
Seriously, what the heck is wrong with the staff there? Based on the reporting, it looks like the vice principal is listed here. After someone fetches him clean underwear, can they also hand him a remedial education course?
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Re: Moron Alert
[anonymous] January 18, 2010 4:45:27.310
The San Diego police seems to be incredibly competent, too:
"When police and the Metro Arson Strike Team responded, they also found electrical components in the student's backpack, Luque said. After talking to the student, it was decided about 1 p.m. to evacuate the school..." (from the news article, second link in James' post).
Note the "*After* talking to the student...". They found "electrical components" - elec-trickery, huh? Did they send Catweazle ([link 1]to investigate?
And the school board? "The student violated school policies" - they should think a bit about those policies.
[1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catweazle) ]