Deaf Child's Sign for His Name Violates "Weapons Policy"

[hatidua]

I think I'll go run with scissors just to feel better after reading this.

[Chad4000]

^^^^ exactly lol

[Bailey Guns]

I think I'll go run with scissors just to feel better after reading this.

Well you'd better wear a helmet. And wave to other runners.

[raymill]

I think my head just exploded from the jackassery of this situation

[sniper7]

So what if his name was actually "gun"....

are we now going to decide what people can NAME THEIR OWN CHILDREN??? the symbol that he uses resembles a different word. big F'in deal....

or "gunner"

[jhood001]

My new handgun...not legal in Grand Island. Luckily, it's easy to conceal:

Just don't go all Gran Torino with that thing!

[Chad4000]

or "gunner"

exactly.....

dude.. we are totally fucked... I seriously cant believe this is an issue.

I want to have another kid and name him "Gunner Mcmassshooter" just so that I can have people claim he needs to be called Trayvon or whatever other completely normal name that society is ok with....

[Bailey Guns]

Just don't go all Gran Torino with that thing!

"Get off my lawn!"

[DHC]

My new handgun...not legal in Grand Island. Luckily, it's easy to conceal:

Actually, that very 'gesture' resulted in a group of 6 10-year-olds being suspended from Dry Creek Elementary School right here in the Denver metro area a few years ago.

Article here -> http://rense.com/general25/zero.htm

CENTENNIAL, Colo. - When Nepata Godec received a call from Dry Creek Elementary School last month telling her that her son and his friends were being sent home from school, she prepared herself for the worst. "I thought somebody was in the hospital or something," said Mrs. Godec. But she was even more shocked when she discovered the real reason. It turned out 10-year-old Aaron Godec and six other fourth-grade boys were being suspended for the rest of the day for pointing their fingers like guns during a game of army-and-aliens on the playground. "So I thought, 'Yes? Then what? Did somebody fall or poke somebody in the eye?'" she said. "But that was it, and we needed to come to school to pick up our son. I couldn't believe it." That wasn't all. As the stunned parents later discovered, the principal, Darci Mickle, also quizzed the boys on whether their families owned guns. For 10-year-old Connor Andrew, whose father formerly worked as a licensed hunting guide, the question placed him in an impossible position. He had been warned not to discuss his father's firearms in front of other children lest they become curious and ask to see them. Torn between obeying his parents and obeying the principal, he chose his parents. "I asked Connor about it, and he started to cry, and he told me he lied to Mrs. Mickle and answered 'no,'" said his father, Charles Andrew. "He was afraid he would get in more trouble, and that [the family] would get in trouble," Mr. Andrew said. Because Dry Creek is located about 20 miles from Columbine High School in the south Denver suburbs, it would be easy to dismiss what happened March 25 as an isolated incident, an extreme but understandable reaction from a community with reason to be paranoid. Easy, but wrong, because Colorado isn't alone. That day, the Dry Creek seven joined a growing fraternity of students across the nation who have learned the hard way about "zero tolerance." A popular stance for schools grappling with the specter of school shootings, drugs and alcohol abuse, the strict no-second-chances policy has resulted in maximum punishment, including detention, suspension, expulsion and even arrest, for what was once viewed as normal horseplay. School officials defend zero tolerance as an unfortunate but necessary reaction to increased demands for school safety. The decade-old policy generally goes hand in hand with anti-bullying programs that have become widespread across the country since the April 20, 1999, shooting at Columbine, which left 15 persons dead. At the Cherry Creek School District here, school officials insist the Dry Creek incident was handled properly. They maintain that the punishment was not a "suspension," although some of the parents say that is what the principal first told them. "School safety is the Cherry Creek School District's first concern and the primary concern of parents who entrust their children to our care every day," said district spokeswoman Tustin Amole. "Our handling of this incident is well within the boundaries of district policy and common sense."

FYI

[Chad4000]

^^ fugggin wow........