A 14-year-old, Ahmed Mohamed, was detained for bringing a “suspicious” device that his engineering teacher believed was a bomb. Ahmed, who attended Dallas high school was handcuffed by the police officers after the school officials accused him of having a bomb. The 14 years old received a lot of positive attention from Mark Zuckerberg and Pres. Obama, including state officials from Texas as a result of the inaccurate accusations.
Ahmed has evidently proved his brilliance multiple times by fixing his dad’s car, computers, and also building his own go-cart. The talented and gifted high-schooler has experienced insensitive prejudice from his teacher, whose job should be to support her students, and an educator whom the students should look up …show more content…
Obama and Mark Zuckerberg showed a lot of support to Ahmed, and how what happened to him should not happen again to any other person who are vulnerable to such stereotypical reactions due to ethnic background. Mr. Obama invited Ahmed to the White House for Astronomy Night on Oct. 19, which is an event that is attended by scientists, engineers, astronauts, teachers and students to spend a night stargazing from the South Lawn.
I think what has happened with Ahmed is logical, because of the stereotypes and circumstances that we are currently going through, the teacher’s classical conditioning was met by a conditioned response, as a result, she did what she thought was best to the ensure the safety of the students. What is confusing to me is that the police’s reaction is not that of a response to a bomb threat, at least the school should have been evacuated or may be a bomb squad should have been clearing the situation on site, but none of that happened. I hope what happened was not to just shame him for who he is.
People’s opinions are going in every direction about this, some say that the detainment should not have happened and some say the teacher had every right to react that way. My opinion is that a 14 years old should never go through such an experience. Instead of arresting him, he should have been rewarded and how his raw talent should have been sharpened by his
Ahmed has evidently proved his brilliance multiple times by fixing his dad’s car, computers, and also building his own go-cart. The talented and gifted high-schooler has experienced insensitive prejudice from his teacher, whose job should be to support her students, and an educator whom the students should look up …show more content…
Obama and Mark Zuckerberg showed a lot of support to Ahmed, and how what happened to him should not happen again to any other person who are vulnerable to such stereotypical reactions due to ethnic background. Mr. Obama invited Ahmed to the White House for Astronomy Night on Oct. 19, which is an event that is attended by scientists, engineers, astronauts, teachers and students to spend a night stargazing from the South Lawn.
I think what has happened with Ahmed is logical, because of the stereotypes and circumstances that we are currently going through, the teacher’s classical conditioning was met by a conditioned response, as a result, she did what she thought was best to the ensure the safety of the students. What is confusing to me is that the police’s reaction is not that of a response to a bomb threat, at least the school should have been evacuated or may be a bomb squad should have been clearing the situation on site, but none of that happened. I hope what happened was not to just shame him for who he is.
People’s opinions are going in every direction about this, some say that the detainment should not have happened and some say the teacher had every right to react that way. My opinion is that a 14 years old should never go through such an experience. Instead of arresting him, he should have been rewarded and how his raw talent should have been sharpened by his