PC Police: Deaf Preschooler Must Change His Name; Sign Language Version Resembles ‘Weapons’
- Post 29 August 2012
- By Copy Editor
Hunter Spanjer demonstrates the sign for his name. (Photo: 10/11)
(The Blaze) - A deaf 3-year-old from Nebraska is being asked by the school district to change his name, his family alleges, because the way he refers to himself in sign language resembles “weapons.”
Apparently the Grand Island school district has a policy that prevents students from bringing “any instrument…that looks like a weapon” to school, and now hands can be considered “instruments.”
“Anybody that I have talked to thinks this is absolutely ridiculous. This is not threatening in any way,” Hunter Spanjer’s grandmother Janet Logue said. ... continues...
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