On behalf of Americans everywhere, kindly accept my Sign Language Greeting.
Sincerely,
frankenMonkey.
Posted on 06/07/2013 7:52:13 AM PDT by IbJensen
Liberals believe in creating institutions to solve problems. Conservatives believe the individual is better at solving problems.
A 3 year-old deaf boy in Lincoln, Nebraska is being bullied by public school officials to change his name because the hand sign for Hunter Spanjer looks like a weapon. The Grand Island school district has a policy that forbids kids bringing to school "any instrument ... that looks like a weapon." They can't change the sign, because it's the official hand sign for his name, registered through S.E.E., Sign Exact English.
Pressure from the National Association of the Deaf and the public has compelled the district into allowing the deaf boy to keep his name. Sadly, there is no humility or sense of shame from district authorities.
The fight for the individual succeeded. The institution proved to be a gargantuan failure, and neither the district superintendent nor the school principal was fired.
An 8 year-old Baltimore student tries to chew his Pop-Tart into the shape of mountain. It looks more like a gun, so he says, "bang bang." Anne Arundel County authorities declare this to be an "inappropriate" use of his imagination and so they suspended him from school.
Neither the district superintendent nor the school principal was fired.
Kicking children out of school for harmlessly exercising creativity is what passes for education in a world where parents and teachers feel they have no influence on their local schools.
Just a few weeks ago, a seven-year-old Virginia boy was suspended for pretending a pencil was a gun at his Suffolk school. His father and neighbors were furious. Then the story went away. But not the education. What did the boy learn? He learned that admitting to doing something he didn't know was bad behavior will get you the maximum punishment. He learned that apologizing for doing something that he didn't know was bad behavior will get you the maximum punishment. He also learned that teachers and principals do not want to teach children that pencils can be dangerous. They want to teach you that using your imagination to pretend any object is a gun is punishable with exile from society. He learned that they use so-called "zero tolerance" laws to cold-heartedly deny children an education in favor of capitulation to the politically popular reaction of the day.
Neither the district superintendent nor the school principal was fired.
A second-grade teacher was suspended without pay in April, charged with possessing, carrying, storing or using a weapon for showing his students the proper ways to use tools. According to Washington Irving Elementary School officials, these deadly weapons included wrenches, pliers and screwdrivers. They were kept in a secured toolbox out of the children's reach.
Perhaps the Washington Irving Elementary School principal should hold an assembly during which she could deliver a PowerPoint presentation demonstrating how children should call police if they ever find an unattended wrench.
Sadly, neither the district superintendent nor the school principal was fired.
These institutional "solutions" to violence in schools are an obvious failure to everyone except the principals and superintendents who are delightfully relieved of their responsibilities to educate and consider the context of each student's behavior.
In this utopian liberal world, all carbon-based life forms are equally subservient to the draconian laws bequeathed from the holy sanctuaries of their state legislatures.
It's time to show zero tolerance for these small-minded, short-sighted bureaucrats infesting your public schools.
In the real world, we parents need to exercise our rights and duty by protesting, lobbying and forcing the firings or resignations of principals and superintendents (not teachers) around the country who use these zero tolerance laws as a weapon against imagination and an excuse for avoiding the difficult job of actually getting to know each student and properly guiding and directing them toward learning.
I wonder what the name Slasher looks like?
Makes me wonder how these people get themselves dressed in the morning. Too stupid for words.
To all citizens:
You are no longer allowed to have a name with the letter “g” or “a” in it.
“G” stands for gun and we certainly do NOT want you to defend yourself against a thug or the government!
“A” could stand for ammunition. The same danger exists for a as it does for g.
Therefore you are hereby ordered to change your name if it has an a or g contained anywhere in it.
Might we suggest a nice number?
That is all. return to your activities.
All hail Obama>
Liberals: The dumbest people in any room.
The Ministry of Words has suggested to the State Tribunal that Nebraska drop the A's since a could stand for ammunition which is doubleplus ungood!
Besides, our hip young PR people in the Ministry of Though say that “Nebrsk” has a fresh, young, modern sound to it.
Grand Island Public Schools has not changed the sign language name of any student, nor is it requiring any student to change how his or her name is signed.
Ruling things “offensive”, and then having Zero tolerance is just part and parcel of the destruction of our country.
No one has common sense any longer, no one wants responsibility for their actions.
Take me back to the 50’s when I went to school. You did something wrong you got punished. Not suspended. Stay after school. wash the blackboards. Get your spanking if it was a major offense. Principals were backed by parents instead of attacked by them. Principals had good sense and were not liberal tards.
Change his name to “Killer!” Tell people the parents are Jerry Lee fans.
I can see a three page anti-Bible rant from the State about how that is against the Atheist Religious policy of the public schools.
Quick, change his name to Darwin or Adolf.
“The lines need to be drawn. We need to know who is on the side of America and who is against America.”
I have been advocating for many years here that we simply cannot co-exist with liberals. For the survival of the country, one of us has to “go”.
“The lines need to be drawn. We need to know who is on the side of America and who is against America.”
I have been advocating for many years here that we simply cannot co-exist with liberals. For the survival of the country, one of us has to “go”.
Change it to Dick.
The problem here isn’t erectile dysfunction.
It’s ELECTILE dysfunction. . .
OK sure. We’ll call him “Gunner”.
I call it Acirema - where everything is backwards. The lawbreakers get rewards; the law-abiding get punished. Those who pay no taxes get refunds; those who do pay out the nose. Those who wound destroy our way of life are protected; patriots are harassed and berated.
He should change it to F-U.
He’ll AT LEAST have to shorten his name to “No” so it would be No Gunner, then maybe everything would be all right.
ahhhh, but then , thinking about it, there’s still “Gunner” so we’re back to Square One. NO WAY OUT!
This has all come about in the name of “fairness”
At one time in the not so distance past, local school districts were created, funded and ran by the local population.
Because some neighborhoods were wealthier then others, it follows some school districts had more money to spend.
Along come the do gooders and a few court cases later it was determined that all revenue would go to the state first and then handed out to the school districts on a per student basis (with the government getting their cut first)
That old saying who pays the piper calls the tune comes into play as the locals no longer had control over the purse strings.
Central control over any organization will eventually cause it to fail ( unless, and this is a big unless, those on top allow those on the bottom to use their own initiative to get the job done. But that seldom happens in a big organization since those on top have to justify their pay by micro managing everything).
So the silver lining in all this is that the current educational system is failing and will eventually collapse (but not without causing a lot of harm first)
My advise to parent, home school your children. They will have a better chance in life.
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