"The student will not be prosecuted, but authorities were recommending that he and his parents get counseling, the spokesman said. The student violated school policies, but there was no criminal intent, Luque said."<p>What possible sane school policies could exist at the "Millennial <i>Tech Magnet</i> Middle School" that the student could have violated?  Don't do anything with what we're teaching you outside of school?<p>I suppose there might be a rule of "don't bring in anything unless you get it screened first", but ... geez.  Given the level of screening they considered necessary for this device, that doesn't sound likely.<p>I'm <i>really</i> glad I went to school in the 1970s; heck, for my 2nd year in JROTC teaching unit (my senior year in high school), where we went beyond writting a lesson plan to actually teaching a lesson (in anything we wanted, didn't have to military related), I used a page from the <i>Ranger Handbook</i> to show how to build an improvised booby-trap, with a bottle rocket as the thing which went "boom" (mounted in a 2x4 block of wood; much better than a firecracker, makes a lot of noise building up to the boom without as high a single impulse).<p>The instructor was concerned for a moment until he remembered who was giving the lesson ^_^.  If someone tried that today they'd probably end up in jail (then again, I suspect my home school district isn't this insane).