This post from reddit does a good job summarizing my thoughts:
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IMO it looks sketchy as hell. I can see where the teacher and the police could see where a similar device could be maliciously dropped somewhere in school and cause a panic. That is what they are accusing him of, not creating a real, working bomb.
But they handled it poorly. He showed the clock to his engineering teacher earlier in the day and the teacher warned him that he shouldn't show anyone else. They police should have had a quick conversation with that teacher to confirm that the boy was telling the truth; he built a clock and was excited to show it to his engineering teacher. End of story and no one has to handcuff a kid and interrogate him without his parents present (another huge mistake on the polices part.)
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William Aberhart High was evacuated a number of years ago because of a briefcase (that looked very similar) that was placed in a garbage can. In the end, I think it was just full of clothes or something, but the idea of a bomb threat was treated very seriously.
As somebody who doesn't know much (anything) about explosives, I can understand why someone would think the clock looks like a bomb, or was intended to look like a bomb. I don't really understand the purpose of mounting this clock in a case like that though.
The situation was just handled extremely poorly.