A 14-year-old Muslim boy who became a sensation on social media after word spread that he had been placed in handcuffs and suspended for coming to school with a homemade clock that teachers thought resembled a bomb says his suspension from school still stands.
"I guess everyone knows, I'm the person who built a clock and got in a lot of trouble," Ahmed Mohamed said.
The teen said he built the clock to impress his teacher and when he showed it to her Monday, she thought it was a threat towards her.
He ended up being detained by police in the school later that day.
"It's really sad that she took the wrong impression of it," Mohamed said.
He added that he is suspended from school until Thursday and that the incident has made him reconsider whether he wants to go back to school there at all.