Posted on 12/18/2014 8:26:01 PM PST by Steelfish
School Takes Away Blind Boy's Cane as Punishment for Acting Up Dec 18, 2014 By SYDNEY LUPKIN
PHOTO: 8-year-old Dakota Nafzinger, who was born without eyes, had his cane taken away and replaced with a pool noodle by the North Kansas City School District on Dec. 15, 2014.
A school took away an 8-year-old blind boy's cane as punishment for acting up and replaced it with a pool noodle, his father told ABC News today.
Dakota Nafzinger, who was born with no eyes, was listening to his music on the school bus when the driver took it away from him, his father, Donald Nafzinger said. Dakota often taps his cane to the music, but this time, his father said he threw it in the air. Nafzinger said school officials told him they thought Dakota was getting violent.
Then they gave Dakota a foam pool noodle in its place and sent him home with it, Nafzinger said.
"It is his eyes," Nafzinger, 35, told ABC News. "He said he was upset because he that's something he needs to get around with."
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Wasn’t the kid hitting out with a cane that was provided by the school?
Yes he was.
I feel sorry for the little guy, he is frustrated, but he needs to learn to have empathy too.
Fortunately, the National Association of the Blind stepped forward and gave the boy a can of his own, denying a bus driver the power of punishing him by giving him a bent foam noodle to "guide his steps."
That these schools "mainstream" handicapped children, then when they don't or can't "behave as expected," wind up getting punished far beyond what one would expect.
I'm no softie, went in for plenty of "tough love" on my own kids but this situation went too far, especially giving a boy a foam "noodle" that bent almost into a "C" shape and expect him to tap his way around to find the place to step is more than a little tough on a kid that's had to face a life without the use of his eyes.
Some adults are too just too stupid to be out on their own.
Maybe he’ll poke your kids eyes out on the bus with his cane.
Look *no pun* What are we to do about your misfortune?
Do you think you can find a hard object with a pool noodle?
I do.
Is it the best tool? Hell No! Hard to determine softness or solidness.
The kid is frustrated, why make everyone suffer?
School tried to be sensitive.
Well the way the media was getting on about how he was being punished without mentioning how he was acting out. I feel for the kid but ......
It’s the media, that is what they do.
Hell that is what the world does, they just react without thinking.
And then they come back with “Oh, we’re so sorry we said that” crap ....
Then, to be fair, why not blind fold another kid who can see and let him roam.
Who picks the guinea pig?
?Of course I wouldn't want that kid or any kid to "poke my kid's eye out" but that could happen with a sighted kid and a pencil, so don't make this worse than it really was.
FYI, the school has already apologized for the situation getting put of control.
It sounds like that blind kid was asking for it.
I knew a kid in grade school, Victor, or ‘Vic’. Vic was born with no teeth.
His parents bought him a chewing-mouth dog. But Vic looked funny with no teeth so of course we teased him mercilessly, and you know how sensitive retards can be.
Vic bared his gums at us one recess, so we ran his dog off.
Its a local school and we've seen plenty of first hand accounts from all concerned on local TV, so not knowing what you're seeing on national TV, especially on one of the MSM channels, it's probably off the mark a bit.
You get my drift.
This is a frustrated handicapped kid that lashed out.
The school tried to act with sensitivity.
Is anyone else curious as to why there was a foam pool noodle on the bus?
gangs of blind kids are running the ghetto’s across America! Real trouble makers!
Sending your child to abusive public schools, in this day and age, amounts to child abuse. There is no excuse to send your child off to the care of evil weevils and bullies.
Too bad this boy isn’t “of color” or a certain religious persuasion, there’d be millions on the line.
The boy and his mother were interviewed on “Fox and Friends” this morning.
The mom said her son’s welfare was the most important thing here. Well, no...not exactly. It’s also about the welfare of any kid he could potentially injure by hitting him or her with a hard cane.
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