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2012-08-29 Home Front: Culture Wars
Deaf Boy’s Name Violates School “Weapons Policy”
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Posted by tipper 2012-08-29 17:27|| || Front Page|| [336099 views ]  Top

#1 I hate articles posted with no extracts or summary.

Kid's name is "Hunter". The difficulty seems to be that, since he's only 3 and he's deaf, he "signs" his name with a gesture that looks almost, but not quite, entirely unlike someone shooting a gun. (Cross your fingers on both hands. Now pretend you're Two-Gun Tom in an old-fashioned Hollywood Western, in a shootout with the Clanton gang. There.) It looks even less like a gun when the kid does it.

The school district wants him to sign his name letter by letter. How often does a kid say his own name, anyway?
Posted by Angie Schultz 2012-08-29 17:45||   2012-08-29 17:45|| Front Page Top

#2 Ummmm...I would not have know that was supposed to be a gun; thumbs are not straight up.

He is three. He barely has control of one dexteriously easy sign, so now he would have to learn six letters -just in case- somebody at school asks his name, such as to pass a proficiency test or introduced to a new kid. First day of school, or first day work, first day any social situation a person says their own name quite a bit.

Not only that, but Hunter would have to learn how his name looks as well, if in a group situation and the teacher is directing a question to him.

Personally, if I was in an environment where if someone asked me my name, I couldn't just let the answer roll off my tongue as I say my own name as I like to say it, but have to go monotone and spell it out, I'd be mad.
Posted by swksvolFF 2012-08-29 21:21||   2012-08-29 21:21|| Front Page Top

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