But what if you're attacked with a banana?
Posted on 12/18/2014 5:18:08 AM PST by BCW
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Two North Kansas City parents are outraged after they say their blind son’s cane was taken away from him at school by a bus driver.
Eight-year-old Dakota Nafzinger attends Gracemor Elementary School. Rachel Nafzinger said school staff took away her son’s cane as punishment for bad behavior on the bus and then gave him a swimming pool noodle to use as a substitute.
The school wouldn’t go on camera, but North Kansas City School District Spokeswoman Michelle Cronk confirmed taking away Dakota’s cane, calling it school property that was given to him when he enrolled. They said they took it away after he reportedly hit someone with it and wanted to prevent him from hurting himself or others.
His family said it was a way to humiliate him for misbehaving.
(Excerpt) Read more at fox4kc.com ...
If kids were picking on him - then there's a special place in hell - for the bus driver to be so direct with one student, but not the others (if there were others involved) - then he/she needs to be FIRED!
Beyond school, is this child subject to abuse at home? What is causing this behavior - he may need help at school, home, or both!
But taking his cane away and asking no questions is highly irresponsible.
Time for a new superintendent and bus driver!
Absolutely disgusting how children with special needs are driven to the sidelines as if they are second class citizens by the socialist controlled educational system...
Also - that "school property" is BY LAW - required! That school needs a flushing out!!!
ADA needs to be involved and the FBI/Justice Dept needs to investigate and charges brought!
Stick ‘em with the pointy end.
I know that I replied to the same article before, but I got to say what did Dakota do to hit. And what was the hit... was he trying to check Hus space to make sure his was safe?
By taking that kid’s cane away, they placed him in one hell of a lot of danger. Were I Dakota’s parent, I’d be enlisting every available agency and resource to “send the message” this is unacceptable.
I haven’t read the responses but i’d to know....did they give it to him when he enrolled, or do they own it? Because those two statements don’t mesh.
Ahhhh, the old "mistakes were made" trope.
Notice that they don't even admit that they took the cane away from him.
Then there is the fact that this "apology" makes no sense grammatically: "a mistake was made in making sure the student was in possession of his cane" . What the hell does that even MEAN?
Worthless, worthless, people.
I was laughing so hard at this story. It read like satire. Laughing not at the child but at the boneheaded response the school had to the child’s misbehavior.
What scares the hell out of me is the fact that some want these people to be to be armed in order to prevent another Sandy Hook.
Arming people that have no common sense is probably the closer to the definition of insanity than the accepted one of continuing to to do the same thing and expecting a different result.
Rather than asking and expecting his parents to impose some correction on his backside,
they take his cane.
Knowing the wonderful things that happen occasionally when this type of thing is made known on the internet, I bet the kid winds up with a few Christmas presents...his own cane, a seeing eye dog, a nanny/body guard, and a very good attorney.
I’d like to know the rest of the story-
like was he a brat using his cane to hit other kids
But what if you're attacked with a banana?
We hate the gubmint... until something happens we don’t like and then they are the first ones we call.?! I think I could handle this one on my own.
I anticipate a VERY LARGE payout coming from both the driver and the school. I am not one who favors suing but in this case it is JUSTIFIED! (Note to the family, GO FOR THE THROAT!”).
Family is the wrong ethnicity, just sayin'
Did you see the tiny 8 year old blond haired baby? I seriously doubt he could hurt anyone with a cane. I suspect bullying of the hate whitey variety directed at the child, possibly with the bus driver’s approval. I mean, a pool noodle, really? That’s something you do to make fun of a child with a disability.
Taking a cane away from a blind child is to make him doubly blind.
That is child abuse.
This issue should be less about returning his cane, though it should be returned, than to provide the child with the most practical of the “alternative methods of seeing” which exist today.
There is “human echolocation”, in which noises are used to detect objects, much like a bat.
Another technique uses a chest pad that creates sensations on the chest equivalent to objects in front of the person.
You said it.
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