Wisdom of school administrators is nearing absolute zero in Grand Island, Nebraska. They have banned a three-year-old's signed name. Banned his name!? Yes. Because of their absolute ban on firearms. His name? He signs it with pointing fore finger and you can't get that past these - there must be a word - fools.
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," But a three year-old's hands?
"Anybody that I have talked to thinks this is absolutely ridiculous. This is not threatening in any way," said Hunter's grandmother Janet Logue.
"It's a symbol. It's an actual sign, a registered sign, through S.E.E.," Brian Spanjer said.
S.E.E. stands for Signing Exact English, Hunter's sign language. Hunter's name gesture is modified with crossed-fingers to show it is uniquely his own.
"We are working with the parents to come to the best solution we can for the child," said Jack Sheard, Grand Island Public Schools spokesperson.
No. The solution is to fire Jack Sheard and everyone above him in the administration of the public schools in Grand Island. Fools.
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