*pkew*
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…
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hand ≠ “instrument”
I’ve always seen administrators, especially of schools, as being in desperate need of a real job, not a retirement in place with high pay program.
If they cannot contribute tangibly toward the educating of our children, they need to be given a broom or mop or, failing that, common sense to be applied up side their heads with a fresh sea bass and their walking papers.
Too much isolation from reality makes them crazy and not just useless, but dangerous.
I guess next they’ll feed all the teenage boys massive doses of saltpeter. Can’t have them pole vaulting around on their weapons.
The kind of stuff that makes me want to dick the everloving crap out of their brains. YOU’RE going to tell me whats best for MY child,. You sumnanabulches.Sure is OK to take a real rifle and kill 72 boys and girls, OH, but gad (that’s for the scrool system) don’t let a deaf kid…..
Says the attorneys for the Deaf are going to be landing any day now.
A human standing upright resembles a round of ammo – all students and personnel should crawl.
Doesn’t even look like a gun to me. I would change it though. Remington Spanjer would be cool. Or if both names all together need to change, how about Samuel Colt, or John Browning for the 3 year old’s name?
Tell them that you have discovered he is 1/32 East Indian and have decided to call him Upyurs Depinard.
I expect there is a sign for that.
Freaking government bureaucrats – stupidity on stilts. No wonder test scores are flat in spite of all the money that’s been spent on “edumacation”.
Maybe if the kid’s parents changed his name from “Hunter” to “Gatherer” or maybe “Farmer”, that would mollify the Board; or maybe go the opposite route and change the kid’s name to something really offensive like “Seymour Butts” or “Hugh G. Rection” (I’d wanna see the signs for those).
There is so much I’d like to say about this it forms a big ball in my throat and explodes into little pieces that can’t form a sentence.
Pity the petty bureaucrat.
His speak can crap more than his bellycan.
Y’know, when the rule itself, rather than the problem it was meant to fix, becomes management’s objective; then the problem isn’t being addressed. The authority of the officious incompetent is.
Heaven forbid that kids should be taught the difference between weapons, tools, recreational gear, and body parts (they can be one and the same).
I think there’s a label for this sort of thing, but I don’t know what it’s called or if it’s an actual disorder or a phase of mental development or … dunno. Something to do with naming a thing defines it. Ambiguity in a thing (e.g. tool/weapon) can’t be dealt with, and it leads to strange reactions. Need a psych-major’s input, here.
(What? Imagining things? Nah, that would be insane.)
Not to mention his name is Hunter– Hunters kill –
Political Correctness run amok! JFC, people point all the time with their index finger. Would that not be a *hammerless* pistol to these cardboard branes?
A nother question I have. I entered 1st grade at age 5. Are 3 yr olds in school now?
Yes Col.J. they are turned over to the government school system when they’re still Ping in their pants. Head Start, Pre school,prep kindergarten,kindergarten that is now all day.
If I ever have a son, I am going to name him Howitzer Explosion Gulliver
Our School system got a grant to serve healthy food for breakfast and lunch for free to anyone up to 18 years old and charged $2.00 for anyone else all summer not just the school year. It was served in both the grade school and high school. Which are about 1 mile apart. I wonder why I get a big lump in my throat when this little boy is subjected to the idiots in the government run school system.
What about James Gunn? Or Dyan Cannon? Or “Mackie Messer” (=knife”)?
Hope: Nobody can do any better, or more accurately, than Mark Twain on that subject.
DougM: Nice touch with the Ogden Nash quote!!!
I mentioned in another place that after a while, we won’t be having these problems, because the Bureau of Naming will give out approved names at birth, along with SS Numbers.
There’s a fair chance we can put off that sort of thing if we just do right in November.
ColJ (13):
people point all the time with their index finger.
I have another sign I’d like to show public “education” administrators pretty much everywhere; it involves the use of a different finger.
A nother question I have. I entered 1st grade at age 5. Are 3 yr olds in school now?
It takes longer for kids now because even with reduced academic efforts it takes more years to achieve a complete indoctrination… just the eradication of common sense alone takes a lot of time.
The map is not the territory. Unless it’s a 1:1 map.
Our approved birth names will be SS numbers tattooed on our arms.
‘any instrument’????
So a hand or finger is an instrument?
When did the dictionary start showing that?
Those teachers and ‘administrators’ are both common sense and book stupid.