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School tells 3-year-old deaf student named Hunter to use a new hand sign for his name as it looks like a gun
A school district has demanded a three-year-old deaf student named Hunter use a different hand sign for his name as the current gesture resembles a gun, his parents have claimed.
The Grand Island, Nebraska district reportedly has a policy forbidding children from bringing ‘any instrument that looks like a weapon’ to school.
School administrators claim Hunter Spanjer’s name sign, which he makes by crossing his index finger and middle finger and then shaking his hands, violates that policy, his parents said.
While it is perhaps unsurprising that the sign for the name Hunter resembles a gun, supporters of the family have argued that it is not something the little boy will be aware of.
‘Anybody that I have talked to thinks this is absolutely ridiculous. This is not threatening in any way,’ the boy’s grandmother, Janet Logue, told KOLN.
‘His name sign, they say, is a violation of their weapons policy,’ his father, Brian Spanjer, added. ‘It’s a registered sign through S.E.E.’ – which stands for Signing Exact English, a sign language system.
h/t Huckleberry
Hybrid Lemon
August 30th, 2012
I’m glad I didn’t name my deaf son Peter.
Xavier
August 30th, 2012
The school has relented due to massive public pushback. I’ll try to find the link.
Bad Brad
August 30th, 2012
This zero tolerance brain dead P.C. craps going to continue until Tar and Feathers becomes popular once again.
Xavier
August 30th, 2012
Here ’tis:
http://www.1011now.com/home/headlines/School-District-Says-Deaf-Student-Not-Required-to-Change-Name-167784235.html
ronterf
August 30th, 2012
School tells 3-year-old deaf student named Hunter to use a new hand sign for his name as it looks like a gun! all the while the republican national convention still goes on!
Sorry for Hunter,these same nuts who want to force everyone to respect them for who/what they are but how about Hunter? noooooo.
AbigailAdams
August 30th, 2012
@ronterf — You are so right! Where is the darling of the Left, the ACLU, on this?? And where are all the other Leftist groups who stand up for the marginalized??
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Xavier
August 30th, 2012
@AbigailAdams
Can you bring this up tonight at the convention? I know you’ve got some pull.
IOpian
August 30th, 2012
As if the little guy doesn’t already have enough of a burden to deal with the last thing he needs is a bunch of idiotic politically correct morons giving him grief.
serfer62
August 30th, 2012
Next time name hom teachers-an-asshole
AvgDude
August 30th, 2012
I’ve got a suggestion for a new sign for his name, just for his school administrators.
Nutjob
August 30th, 2012
I hear gang signs are appropriate in public schools.
GM Car Of The Future
August 31st, 2012
So… if his hand is in his pocket, it’s a ‘concealed weapon’?
F U and the horse you rode in on.
Elaine
August 31st, 2012
Can’t get to model Britain fast enough it seems. Government there told nursery school and daycare center workers to record every racist comment the litle kiddies utter. Such as? If they say “yuk” while eating a food not common to their traditions.
Foso de liberales venenos
August 31st, 2012
The school administrators need some serious behavior modification. The beanbag prison riot shotgun might be a good therapy tool for use on the brain-dead liberal child abusers.
venturaguy
August 31st, 2012
this is why our children are failing – the people in charge are mind numbingly STUPID
Friend of the family
August 31st, 2012
It’s called paranoid schizophrenia. These people are sick with unwarranted disillusions that are overwhelming their reasoning and discerning capabilities. To think, how far it has come when we witness college educated people being terrified of a small child who makes a hand sign that looks like a gun. The audacity of treating him like a character taken from the Village of the Damned is mind blowing. God help the boy if he should ever bring a toy gun to school or play cops and robbers in the playground: the ATF would S.W.A.T. down on him and crush him to death without evening realizing it or even caring when they do.