Little-Acorn
Well-Known Member
Remember back when a couple of five-year-olds got thrown out of their **Kindergarten** for forming their fingers into little guns and saying "Bang, you're dead" to each other during recess?
That was "Zero tolerance" in action. Thank God they kept the rest of the schoolkids safe from those kids' deadly forefingers. Who knows what could have happened?
Well, you ain't seen nuthin' yet.
A THREE YEAR OLD kid is deaf. And his name is Hunter Spanjer. And he's learning how to do signing, the sign language for the deaf.
And the sign for his name Hunter, is the forefinger and thumb held at a right angle to each other. And he might get tossed out of the school for it. Because it looks like what those 5-year-old kindergartners were doing with THEIR fingers, way back when.
No, I'm not kidding.
Some purported "adult" thinks that's a violation of the schools Zero Tolerance For Weapons policy.
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http://www.1011now.com/home/headlin...Sign-Language-for-His-Own-Name-167394325.html
Grand Island Preschooler Asked to Change the Sign for His Name in School
Reporter: Steve Ross Email
Posted: Fri 8:34 PM, Aug 24, 2012
Updated: Mon 11:11 AM, Aug 27, 2012
Hunter Spanjer says his name with a certain special hand gesture, but at just three and a half years old, he may have to change it. "He's deaf, and his name sign, they say, is a violation of their weapons policy," explained Hunter's father, Brian Spanjer.
Grand Island's "Weapons in Schools" Board Policy 8470 forbids "any instrument...that looks like a weapon," But a three year-old's hands?
"Anybody that I have talked to thinks this is absolutely ridiculous. This is not threatening in any way," said Hunter's grandmother Janet Logue.
"It's a symbol. It's an actual sign, a registered sign, through S.E.E.," Brian Spanjer said.
3-year-old Hunter Spanjer makes the sign for his name, with his left hand
S.E.E. stands for Signing Exact English, Hunter's sign language. Hunter's name gesture is modified with crossed-fingers to show it is uniquely his own.
"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.
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Umm, no, you are NOT working to come up with the best solution for the child, Mr. Jack Sheard. If you were doing that, you would have dropped this silly "issue", bought the kid a lollipop, and told him to go back to class.
That was "Zero tolerance" in action. Thank God they kept the rest of the schoolkids safe from those kids' deadly forefingers. Who knows what could have happened?
Well, you ain't seen nuthin' yet.
A THREE YEAR OLD kid is deaf. And his name is Hunter Spanjer. And he's learning how to do signing, the sign language for the deaf.
And the sign for his name Hunter, is the forefinger and thumb held at a right angle to each other. And he might get tossed out of the school for it. Because it looks like what those 5-year-old kindergartners were doing with THEIR fingers, way back when.
No, I'm not kidding.
Some purported "adult" thinks that's a violation of the schools Zero Tolerance For Weapons policy.
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http://www.1011now.com/home/headlin...Sign-Language-for-His-Own-Name-167394325.html
Grand Island Preschooler Asked to Change the Sign for His Name in School
Reporter: Steve Ross Email
Posted: Fri 8:34 PM, Aug 24, 2012
Updated: Mon 11:11 AM, Aug 27, 2012
Hunter Spanjer says his name with a certain special hand gesture, but at just three and a half years old, he may have to change it. "He's deaf, and his name sign, they say, is a violation of their weapons policy," explained Hunter's father, Brian Spanjer.
Grand Island's "Weapons in Schools" Board Policy 8470 forbids "any instrument...that looks like a weapon," But a three year-old's hands?
"Anybody that I have talked to thinks this is absolutely ridiculous. This is not threatening in any way," said Hunter's grandmother Janet Logue.
"It's a symbol. It's an actual sign, a registered sign, through S.E.E.," Brian Spanjer said.
3-year-old Hunter Spanjer makes the sign for his name, with his left hand
S.E.E. stands for Signing Exact English, Hunter's sign language. Hunter's name gesture is modified with crossed-fingers to show it is uniquely his own.
"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.
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Umm, no, you are NOT working to come up with the best solution for the child, Mr. Jack Sheard. If you were doing that, you would have dropped this silly "issue", bought the kid a lollipop, and told him to go back to class.
