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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You just cannot fix stupid! - Joe White
somebody send them the pic of Obama gang signing....idiots!
Zero Tolerance = Ultimate Stupid
Oh! For the love of....
Full title: SCHOOL ALLEGEDLY ASKS DEAF PRESCHOOLER TO CHANGE HIS NAME BECAUSE SIGN LANGUAGE VERSION RESEMBLES ‘WEAPONS’
Whoa. My name in its original language means something to cut off the heads of stupid people.
Boy have these “administrators” devolved.
Please check your hands at the door.
Tell the school officials to shove their suggestion up their collective smelly Obamas.
ARTH ping
My grandson’s name is HUNTER, and if someone said that to him I’d probably be in jail for assault!............(I’m nearly DEAF myself).......
Employees of the public school system have become our semi-official repository for the mentally disturbed much the way asylums used to be in ages past.
That’s a nice looking fully automatic 12-gauge AK-47 assault pistol. It looks just like a hand sign. I’m traumatized just looking at it!
Good thing the boy’s last name isn’t Gunn or Speer.
Too bad if they don't like it. That's the child's name. Deal with it.
Who do these people think they are to even suggest this nonsense? Parents - not the teachers union - name their children.
So we’ve become Europe, is that it? I graduated in 1978. I recall taking my rifle and shotgun to school so that I could hunt on the way home. I suppose that’d make their heads explode. And I was next door, in Iowa!!
I have a sign for the school board:
http://swaggernotstyle.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/johnny-cash-finger.jpg%3Fw%3D500
It's possible, but it sometimes requires some tar and feathers.
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