In the news today, I've seen many articles about Kiera Wilmot. This 16 year old student from Florida was expelled from her school because she wanted to see if a 'works bomb' actually worked. What this amounted to was putting some household chemicals in a plastic bottle because she'd heard this interaction would cause the top of the bottle to blow off. There was also some smoke. Aside from the bottle top, nothing was damaged and no one was hurt. This was a matter of a young girl being curious about something that she didn't even believe would work and a system that is pretty broken.
You see, because Ms. Wilmot wasn't thinking this whole thing through (which happens from time to time, when one is a teenager), she failed to think about the fact that this violated the school's Code of Conduct policy. She wasn't suspended for a day or two. She was expelled. Expelled, for something that caused no damage to anything and no harm to anyone.
Not only that, she is now facing criminal charges in the legal system. Police got involved. She may be tried as an adult. This could ruin her future.
Now let's think about this for a minute. Earlier this year, a girl was sexually assaulted by football players and this was put on video. They clearly harmed someone. Yet, they weren't tried as adults and were given very light sentences. This girl does an experiment that harms no one and will more than likely be tried as an adult and possibly face years in prison.
We live in a strange place.
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