No, no. You're doing it all wrong.
You've got to do it with some style. Like this:
Get back to us when you've gotten your outrage up to par.
Posted on 02/04/2013 1:13:25 PM PST by Academiadotorg
Parents of a deaf child named Hunter were told by his Nebraska public preschool that they must change his name because he was in violation of the school district’s weapons policy. To sign his name, the three-year-old crosses his index and middle fingers then wags his hands. This sign apparently appeared to school officials to represent a gun.
Grand Island Public Schools’ policy section 8470 — Weapons in Schools states: “Students are forbidden to knowingly and voluntarily possess, handle, transmit or use any instrument in school, on school grounds or at school functions that is a firearm, weapon, or looks like a weapon. . . .”
Hunter Spanjer’s family has chosen to use Signing Exact English (SEE) as their preferred means of communicating with Hunter, but he is also learning American Sign Language (ASL). At one point, the school seemed to imply that Hunter’s parents had made a mistake by choosing SEE and that they should change to the district-preferred ASL. A district spokesman said, “The school district teaches American Sign Language (ASL) for students with hearing impairments. ASL is recommended by the Nebraska Department of Education and is widely used in the United States.”
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stupidity has no limits......
/johnny
...and all these years I thought people in Nebraska were intelligent.........
Welcome to Nebraskistan.
....or ‘My Teacher is a MORON’...........
Fingers don’t look like a gun.
What this is the attempt by the schools to punish the thought of a gun.
They expel kids for holding their fingers in what they say is a “gun” shape.
So if someone named Gunilla comes to school will they expel her for saying “gun”?
Madness.
“In a recent Facebook update Hunter’s grandmother indicated that the preschool has decided to let Hunter use his SEE name sign.”
If they change his name to Mohammed, they’ll leave him alone.
This is a spoof isn’t it?
Kind of like the “Old Gunny” was getting his new replacements and some baby faced kid, when asked “What is your name Marine?” “John SIR”...the Gunny goes “Don’t call me sir here and in the Corps we go by last names. First names are not to be used. NOW What is your name Marine?”
“Darling, John Darling”.
“Well John, lets see about getting you an assignment”.
Soon it will be illegal for students to have index and middle fingers.
Next, synonyms to guns, weapons and firearms will be deleted from text books. Learning history will be interesting: The civil war was fought with lupins.
Are teachers SO Stupid that a name is in violation of a weapon’s policy?!!
What will happen to the children who live in Fishkill or Westkill? Will they have to move or the towns have to change their names?
(ps: “kill” is a Dutch word for creek)
I am appropriately outraged! What do I win?
Animal rights activists tried to get “Fishkill” to change its name. (Isn’t it a river, too?)
I’m not making this up.
Good God...even red states are going to pot.
yes, it’s a river also.
/johnny
“stupidity has no limits......”
That sums it up.
You know what looks like a gun? A gun. Not my fingers or some pre-school kid’s fingers.
Give it a rest.
Do a subject search on "zero tolerance" on the FR search engine. You'll get references to hundreds of examples of "zero tolerance" outrages from every part of the country.
No, no. You're doing it all wrong.
You've got to do it with some style. Like this:
Get back to us when you've gotten your outrage up to par.
BAAAAWWWAAAHHAAAAAA!!!!
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