A high school senior will not be going to prom this weekend after wearing a fake bomb to ask his date to the dance.
It happened at La Center High School. The district stands by its decision to suspend the senior, but the student says he didn’t do anything wrong.
âA promposal, like a proposal, you gotta go big,â senior Ibrahim Ahmad said.
Ahmad did go big, and for school administrators, that was the problem.
âYou think of something clever, funny, you know, something extravagant. So, I thought of a nice, clever idea,â Ahmad said.
Ahmad spent some time working on his plan. During the lunch hour on Monday, he got on the stage in the cafeteria.
âI made a sign, it said “I know it’s a little late, but I’m kind of the bomb! Will you be my date to prom? And, I had a paintball vest with paper tubes and some wires hanging out,â Ahmad said.
It was a vest made to look like a suicide bomb.
âIt was some paper tubes and a paintball vest. It was very terrible. It didn’t even look like a bomb,â Ahmad said.
It didn’t take long for the principal to notice.
âI only had it on for a good like 20 seconds and then, she just walked up, took it and then took me to the office,â he said.
Ahmad was suspended for five days, which includes the senior prom.
The district says the punishment could have been much more severe, including charging him with a class “C” felony, but they chose to keep it to a five day suspension.
Superintendent Mark Mansell did not want to talk on camera tonight, but he released this statement:
“Our administrators and staff are committed to creating learning environments where all students are safe and parents feel comfortable sending their children to school. Given all that is going on in the world today, even simulated weapons/devices can undermine our collective efforts to create a safe school and therefore are handled with appropriate disciplinary actions.”
âI figured it was really funny and everyone else that was there thought it was good and funny,â Ahmad said.
School officials say, it wasn’t funny at all.
âGo big or go home. You’re supposed to go all out,â Ahmad said.
Ahmad said he’s still going to go to get dressed up and go to dinner with his date; he just won’t be allowed at the dance.
via 19ActionNews
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