{"id":1645,"date":"2012-08-28T21:51:02","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T01:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monachuslex.com\/?p=1645"},"modified":"2012-08-28T21:51:02","modified_gmt":"2012-08-29T01:51:02","slug":"anti-gun-wacko-of-the-week-grand-island-ne-school-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monachuslex.com\/?p=1645","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Gun Wacko of The Week: Grand Island NE School Board"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"When I wrote last week’s Anti-Gun Wacko of the Week<\/a> column about University of Colorado\u00a0Professor Jerry Peterson, I chose the name of the column on a bit of a whim. I didn’t really expect that I would find that level of outrageousness on a weekly basis.<\/p>\n

But by now, you would think I would know better than to underestimate the ability of bureaucrats to make blindly stupid decisions.<\/p>\n

And that brings us to today’s story about 3-year-old\u00a0Hunter Spanjer<\/a>. \u00a0Hunter is, by all reports, a happy and well-loved child who attends preschool in Grand Island Nebraska. Hunter is just like all the other boys and girls except for one thing … the school board wants to take away his name.<\/p>\n

You see … Hunter is deaf and uses American Sign Language (ASL). \u00a0And the ASL symbol for Hunter or hunting is shown in the video below. \u00a0Hunter then crosses his fingers to show it is a formal name instead of the concept of hunting. \u00a0It is the official sign for his name.<\/p>\n

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But the\u00a0Grand Island School Board<\/a> doesn’t care. \u00a0They say that the sign runs afoul of their ‘Weapons in Schools’ policy which bans \u201cany instrument … that looks like a weapon<\/em>.\u201d Forgetting for a second the ridiculousness of banning objects based upon mere looks, the level of stupidity and insensitivity that it takes to stretch such a rule to encompass a deaf child using official ASL signs is staggering.<\/p>\n

As a matter of fact, it has been brought to my attention that math class will apparently have to be cancelled for all deaf students as well since the number 21 also looks like a ‘scary’ finger gun.<\/p>\n