[MeganC]

Idiot, asswipe, liberals. That’s all I have to say right there.

[RightOnTheBorder]

"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.

They are going to pay to send him to private school?

[madison10]

Wonder if there is a different school available. Nothing like making a kid hate his name because others are so PC that they have no common sense.

[upchuck]

Related:

Yesterday: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2924156/posts

Day before: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2923977/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2923914/posts

[RedMDer]

I have a sign for the Grand Island Public Schools officials. It’s between the index and ring finger.

[The_Reader_David]

Since when is a hand "an instrument"?

Of course, this prohibition might make education a bit difficult, once it is noticed that a sharpened pencil or crayon looks like a weapon (a thrusting spear), as do blackboard erasers (blocks of C4), pieces of chalk (the Chinese martial arts bang), or for that matter the little star-shaped stickers grade-school teachers use are rewards (the hira shuriken). Okay, well, I'm stretching the notion of "looks like" a bit on some of those, but by less than one needs to stretch the notion of "looks like" (or the concept of instrument, for that matter) to apply the rule to the hand-gesture for the little boy's name.

[Mygirlsmom]

They should agree to change his name at school. I suggest he be called Ferdinand Ulysses. There’s also an official sign for his new initials, so I hear.

[elkfersupper]

I've lived too long. I frequently had real guns with me in Jr. High and High School in the late '60's. Also had a Boy Scout knife hooked on a belt loop in the 2nd grade.

The wussification of America continues.

[PubliusMM]

From the article:
“ “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. “

And, therein lies the crux of the problem...the “public school system” positing itself as an entity that has a viable, appropriate place in determining what is best solution for the child.
That statement presupposes that this issue is a problem for the child...one that requires solution.
The simple truth is that the child already has a solution, and it has to do ONLY with identifying himself to those around him.
No muss. No fuss.

Home schooling...the only proper answer to federal intrusion into the education of our young people.

[MasterGunner01]

Time to switch schools or go to a private school or home school. Don’t bother with these idiots by playing their game.