A pair of students at Mark Twain JHS School 239 for the Gifted and Talented in Brooklyn were a little too enterprising for their own good. They were "hauled out of class yesterday after trying to peddle a homemade chemical bomb." While the school will discipline them, they were arrested and charged with conspiracy.
The two 13-year-olds (honors students!) were telling a third friend about a Youtube video (of course) of a homemade bomb made with household items. The Post reports the third friend asked them how he could find the video, but his "friends decided they'd rather sell him the explosive."
The would-be transaction was snarled when a teacher got a hold of a note saying one of the ingredients would cost $5. A source told the Post, "The kids were brought in and were very remorseful and crying. They wrote letters of apology." And the parent of a student at the school said to WABC 7, "It's amazing what they were able to do without their parents being aware of, especially at that age. This is just awful."
IS 239 is the school a South Asian girl wanted to attend but couldn't because her test scores were too low for the minority student requirement (but her scores were well within the white student requirement). The incident led the Department of Education to move to overturn the quota.
