Posted on 08/28/2012 2:23:16 PM PDT by lowbridge
A deaf 3-year-old from Nebraska is being asked by the school district to change his name, his family alleges, because the way he refers to himself in sign language resembles “weapons.”
Apparently the Grand Island school district has a policy that prevents students from bringing “any instrument…that looks like a weapon” to school, and now hands can be considered “instruments.”
“Anybody that I have talked to thinks this is absolutely ridiculous. This is not threatening in any way,” Hunter Spanjer’s grandmother Janet Logue said.
Brian Spanjer, the boy’s father, added: “It’s a symbol. It’s an actual sign, a registered sign, through S.E.E. [Signing Exact English]”
Hunter signs his name by crossing his middle and index fingers– leaving his thumbs up– and then wagging his hands.
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Have any kids been kicked out of school for using sign language that “resembles” gang signs?
OK I need names and a plane ticket cause I just need to bitch slap every idiot involved with this decision!
What if your name is Gunn, Colt, Cannon, Archer, Knight, Ruger, Smith, Wesson, Glock?
Were he my son, I’d have him adopt a very simple, one fingered sign for a new name! One to be used at school for school administrators exclusively!
Oh no, it’s “He who must not be named”
Could be worse, his name could have been, “The Shocker”.
Ron “Tater Salad” White. Funny guy. Texan.
Hey Teach, Read my lips.
CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?
At one time not so long ago someone suggesting this would be taken away by the men in white coats
Clothes can actually BE weapons. You can suffocate somebody with them. Or strangle somebody with the pants legs! The kids ought to be going to school naked.
And what about a lunchbox! Pencils! You can even hit somebody over the head with a desk if you're strong enough.
I'd say put the kids in straightjackets, but they could loop the arms over somebody's head.
Maybe we could just put the school officials in straightjackets.
” OK I need names and a plane ticket cause I just need to bitch slap every idiot involved with this decision!”
And slip the kid a gun. He is surrounded by lunatics who
may be dangerous.
Are you sure you don’t mean Ron White?
Sure, double barrels are always twisted around each other.
God’s way of telling us to HOME SCHOOL.
Failed system.
You will have this sort of stupidity when you have a single payer socialized school industry.
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