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发帖数: 10345 | 1 School asks deaf preschooler to change his sign language name
Three-and-a-half year old Hunter Spanjer, who is deaf, signs his name by
crossing his forefinger and index finger and moving his hand up and down.
To his family, friends and those who know the Signing Exact English (S.E.E.)
language that the Grand Island, Neb., boy uses, that gesture uniquely means
"Hunter Spanjer."
But to Hunter's school district, it might mean something else. The district
claims that it violates a rule that forbids anything in the school that
looks like a weapon, reports KOLN-TV.
And Hunter's parents claim that Grand Island Public Schools administrators
have asked them to change their son's sign language name.
"Anybody that I have talked to thinks this is absolutely ridiculous," Hunter
's grandmother Janet Logue told the TV station. "This is not threatening in
any way."
Hunter's father Brian Spanjer said, "It's a symbol. It's an actual sign, a
registered sign, through S.E.E."
The family told KOLN that lawyers from the National Association of the Deaf
may push for Hunter's right to sign his name at the school.
Jack Sheard, Grand Island Public Schools spokesperson told KOLN, "We are
working with the parents to come to the best solution we can for the child."
One Grand Island resident said she disagrees with the school.
"I find it very difficult to believe that the sign language that shows his
name resembles a gun in any way would even enter a child's mind," Fredda
Bartenbach said in the news report. |
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