{"id":11740,"date":"2015-11-24T04:27:59","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T04:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11740"},"modified":"2015-11-24T04:27:59","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T04:27:59","slug":"boy-family-seek-15-million-for-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11740","title":{"rendered":"Boy, family seek $15 million &#8230; for what?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/ahmed.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11741\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/ahmed-300x180.png\" alt=\"ahmed\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/ahmed-300x180.png 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/ahmed.png 619w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ahmed Mohamed once was in the news.<\/p>\n<p>He was doing a science project for his school in Irving, a Dallas suburb. Ahmed brought a homemade clock to school. But the clock was confiscated, Ahmed was detained, questioned intently by school officials and police who thought he had made a bomb. He then was suspended.<\/p>\n<p>The incident brought a lot of attention because Ahmed and his family are Muslim.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. and Mrs. Mohamed were so upset &#8212; and rightfully so &#8212; that they took their son out of school and moved to Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>That should have been the end of the story.\u00a0 It isn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>The family is now seeking reparations from the school district totaling $15 million.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right. <em>Fifteen million bucks!<\/em> They also want a written apology from the school district.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmed&#8217;s reputation, they family says, has been damaged beyond repair. They want the Irving district to pay them.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m generally in favor of allowing plaintiffs the right to sue for as much as they can get &#8230; within reason, of course.<\/p>\n<p>However, not for something like this.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmed&#8217;s detention and the publicity he got over the bogus bomb scare brought him a great deal of <em>positive<\/em> attention. President Obama invited him and other science students to the White House for an astronomy demonstration project.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/us\/%e2%80%99clock-kid%e2%80%99-seeking-dollar15-million-in-damages\/ar-BBnm4ae?li=BBnb7Kz\">Ahmed&#8217;s damages, <\/a>such as they are, pale in comparison to\u00a0what his parents&#8217; reputation will endure by\u00a0making such an unreasonable demand for reparations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahmed Mohamed once was in the news. He was doing a science project for his school in Irving, a Dallas suburb. Ahmed brought a homemade clock to school. But the clock was confiscated, Ahmed was detained, questioned intently by school officials and police who thought he had made a bomb. He then was suspended. 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