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The people making these insane Zero Tolerance policies are the same ones teaching indoctrinating our children. My guess is they want to create an entire generation of adults who will be so traumatized by the appearance of a real gun that they would be incapable of defending themselves.
You can’t make this stuff up. The good news: 3-year-old Hunter
Spanjer, who is deaf, knows how to sign his name. The bad news: His
school says his hand sign looks too much like a gun and has asked him to
change it.
The school, in Grand Island, Nebraska, is forcing Hunter to change
the way he signs his name, because they say his gestures violate their weapons policy. Lunacy reigns supreme, America.
Hunter’s personalized name sign is a registered sign with Signing
Exact English – a modified form of American Sign Language – and involves
extended index fingers that the district says resembles a gun. “We are
working with the parents to come to the best solution we can for the
child,” said Jack Sheard, Grand Island Public Schools spokesperson.
Really, Jack? I have a suggestion: Take your heads out of your butts and
allow him to use the registered sign for his name. Problem solved.
As reported by 1011now.com,
Grand Island’s “Weapons in Schools” Board Policy 8470 forbids “any
instrument…that looks like a weapon.” But a three year-old’s hands?
Here’s Hunter’s dad, Brian:
“He’s deaf, and his name sign, they say, is a violation
of their weapons policy. It’s a symbol. It’s an actual sign, a
registered sign, through S.E.E.”
Hunter’s parents say that by Monday, lawyers from the National
Association of the Deaf are likely to weigh in for Hunter’s right to
sign his own name.
Despite whatever rules and regulations may exist, some Grand
Islanders said they don’t think it’s right to make a three year-old
change the way he says his name.
“It’s his name. It’s not like he’s going to bring a gun to school when he’s three years old,” commented Dana Schwieger.
“I find it very difficult to believe that the sign language that
shows his name resembles a gun in any way would even enter a child’s
mind,” said Fredda Bartenbach.
First, an 8-year-old boy in Baltimore is suspended from school for
allegedly chewing his Pop-Tart into the shape of a handgun. Then, a
6-year-old Massachusetts boy is forced to apologize for “traumatizing”
his schoolmates on the bus by brandishing a tiny – the size of a quarter
– Lego-figure gun. And now, a 3-year-old deaf child may be forced to
change the only sign he knows for his name.
And all because of what? Overreaction? Politically correctness? Mass
hysteria among school officials or just downright stupidity? Whatever
the reason, does it really matter? The bottom line is this: This
nonsense is out of control. Period. Get a grip, people.
I wonder if the sign for “get a grip” looks like an “assault” rifle?
By extension (no digital punnery intended --- well, maybe just a little!) "crossing" one's fingers for luck would also be something sure to invoke the righteous lightening bolts of wrath from Mount Head-up-your(well, you can guess the rest).
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