[Danihan]

You mean the kid who disassembled a clock radio, intentionally made it look like a bomb in a suitcase, used it as a distractant in multiple classes, eventually got appropraitely disciplined for it, but then got tons of free stuff, scholarships from universities, free money and swag, and personally invited to White House by the President?

Yeah, heaven forbid anyone be treated that poorly.

[whatshisface]

Woah, I've never heard the story told like that. Could you link me to an article or something? If true that's pretty depressing, I've seen a lot of kids randomly blessed by corporate PR teams that want to look like they're supporting education but I thought at least that story was true. (It's not hard to make a clock and electronics in public places have caused a silly bomb scare before...)

[Danihan]

It's mostly explained that way on the Wikipedia article, if you read between the lines a bit.

His sister was also suspended from school for a bomb threat, so it seems to be a sort of recurring pattern with his family.