School says deaf boy's name sign looks too much like a gun

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My buddy had a toy pistol (totally fake, with an orange tip, etc.) and the police slammed him, cuffed him, and the lectured him before setting him free. They told him they could get him with attempted murder. WTF. I highly doubt this nonsense would occur in a free market educational system where students are treated for what they truly are....customers.
 
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This will hit foxnews and suddenly they will allow it.

u name one conservative group that cares about this kinda crap and u win milo. Until then the liberal comments are fair.
 
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n_huffhines said:
My buddy had a toy pistol (totally fake, with an orange tip, etc.) and the police slammed him, cuffed him, and the lectured him before setting him free. They told him they could get him with attempted murder. WTF. I highly doubt this nonsense would occur in a free market educational system where students are treated for what they truly are....customers.
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I had a similar experience in high school while playing air soft up in the mountains.

Patting down my nerdy Asian buddy, they asked "is that another weapon in your pocket, son?"

"No! It's a pencil! I'm taking the SAT in the morning."
 
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n_huffhines said:
My buddy had a toy pistol (totally fake, with an orange tip, etc.) and the police slammed him, cuffed him, and the lectured him before setting him free. They told him they could get him with attempted murder. WTF. I highly doubt this nonsense would occur in a free market educational system where students are treated for what they truly are....customers.
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Wait so he brought a toy gun to school?

Bonehead move on his part.
 
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someone posts a link to an article about a conservative saying something stupid and certain people disappear from the thread.


Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...
 
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NEOCON said:
This will hit foxnews and suddenly they will allow it.

u name one conservative group that cares about this kinda crap and u win milo. Until then the liberal comments are fair.
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Don't you have a call center to manage or something?
 
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golfballs said:
I'm surprised the adults let me play army as a kid and used those fake guns. Don't they know I could have offended someone!?!?
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A guy I know had his girl sent home from school and suspended for three days because she wore a hair berret that was in the shape of a pistol, it couldn't have been more than an inch and a half long.

And we live in the heart of gun and Bible country.

Later she wore some sort of political protest blouse from back in the sixties or seventies that her mother still had in the closet and was sent home again for inappropriate attire.

He had to go back to school again to get her reinstated and wore a Harley shirt. He sat before the principle and answered all her questions, yes maam, no maam, I understand maam and then got up and walked out of the office.

The back of his Harley shirt read; "If you can read this, the byach fell off."

He said; "I think she got the idea, at least they didn't call me in for any more conferences."

Anyone hear about the guy in Canada who was arrested for walking his dog in a public park because he offended muslims?
 
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The school changed their mind.
Last week, a Grand Island Public School spokesman talked with us but wouldn't say much on the issue.

Now, people all over the country are sounding off.

The family of Hunter Spanjer, the preschooler asked to change the way he signs his name, said the support has been tremendous.

"The encouragement and support is amazing," Brian Spanjer, Hunter's father, said. "It's been more than I could have asked for and it's been extremely helpful."

But, that's not the case for Grand Island Public Schools.

They said they've been receiving hundreds of angry calls and emails, even death threats.

A statement from GIPS Communications Coordinator Jack Sheard said there's more to the story.

It reads, "The sign language techniques taught in the school district are consistent with the standards of the Nebraska Department of Education and ASL [American Sign Language]."

It goes on to say, "Grand Island Public Schools is not requiring any current student with a hearing impairment to change his or her sign language name."

The Nebraska Department of Education told Nebraska Central News, there are no state regulations for students using sign language.

They said those come at the district level.

Sheard told NCN the school is working with the family. He said first priority is protecting their student.

The ACLU is getting involved in the case.

A letter from the organization to the school calls it a question of a students' form of chosen speech.

It reads, "A parent's choice of name for his child is one of the most personal aspects of the parent-child relationship and the district cannot step into the middle of that constitutionally protected relationship."
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dang dirty liberals
 
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So, Jan Brewer took time out of her busy conservative day to be a liberal and sign a law stating pregnancy begins before conception?
 
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