Before Ahmed’s fame: fantastic inventions and a fight with authority

[TexasTowelie]

If you want to know Ahmed Mohamed — not the hoax bomb suspect or the vindicated celebrity, but the motormouth kid with a schoolbag full of inventions and a head full of questions — ask a teacher.

Ask at Sam Houston Middle School, where the boy from Sudan mastered electronics and English, once built a remote control to prank the classroom projector and bragged of reciting his First Amendment rights in the principal’s office.

It’s also the school where Ahmed racked up weeks of suspensions, became convinced an administrator had it in for him and — before he left for the high school where he turned famous — prompted Irving ISD to review claims of anti-Muslim bullying.

If you want to know about the boy before the fame, ask Ralph Kubiak: Ahmed’s seventh-grade history teacher and fellow outsider.

Read more: http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/northwest-dallas-county/headlines/20150926-before-ahmeds-fame-fantastic-inventions-and-a-fight-with-authority.ece

[Hydra]

1. Great Article

I hope all goes well for Ahmed...but it's not likely.

[murielm99]

2. He sounds like a very bright kid

who needs the guidance of adults who understand kids like him. He needs to be in a math and science school, or a first-rate gifted program.

Some bright kids are always pushing at their boundaries. I raised a son who was very much like this.

I hope this kid gets what he needs to build a great future.