The thing I find questionable about this whole thing is how the school reacted.
The teacher reports that the student has something that resembles a bomb. Student gets escorted to office with his clock.
Faculty explains that his clock might be a bomb and that they needed to detain him for safety reasons.
Then the faculty take this clock, which they just that they are unsure whether it is a bomb or not, and then they confiscate it and put it into a school building.
Where was the Bomb Squad??? Where was the school evacuation???
I mean if they really thought it was a bomb and they didn't evacuate or call the bomb squad that is very irresponsible.
The alternative is that they knew it was not a bomb, but they had the local police arrest him because it COULD* be mistaken for a bomb... Which isn't really a crime. Actually it probably is a crime... but discerning what could be mistaken as a bomb and what could not be mistaken for a bomb is so subjective and up to interpretation that it shouldn't be left up to individuals to decide when the law is being broken or not.
Taking all this into account, the school acted irresponsibly.
Cool all the tech companies and MIT reached out to the kid though, he's definitely stoked now and the school still has him on suspension. Which is pretty much like a surprise vacation at that age
