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As per Jonah Keri's Twitter... A school wants a deaf kid named Hunter to change his name at school because the sign for that is a gun.

Posted by Name Withheld By Request (aka BlueKopo) Aug 28 '12, 10:15

That can't be right.

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Ender posted a link earlier. It's pretty obvious that they don't want a three year old ladies' magnet making finger-guns at all the girls at daycare -- nm - Roger More Aug 28, 10:55
I have no issue with it. I think it's extreme, but whatever. -- nm - CQ Aug 28, 10:32 5
- do they have any kids named Dick? -- nm - CQ Aug 28, 10:33 4
  - imagine that Sign? -- nm - Mel Profit Aug 28, 10:38 3
    - "no, that's bj....no, that's stroking....okay, that picture of Nixon, good improvisation." -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 28, 10:40 2
      - "and honestly kid...I have no idea what you're doing there but I think I have to call the authorities." - Mel Profit Aug 28, 10:43 1
        
        "Why did you stick your tongue for that one? Career day is going to be interesting for you." -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 28, 10:46
I heard about this but haven't read the details ... do they mean legally change his name, or just call him by "H" or something? -- nm - Beryllium Aug 28, 10:26 5
- His name in sign language is a gun-pointing thing.....the rules are simple -- don't point finger guns at people....so they want him to change his sign -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 28, 10:27 4
  - Which is itself a ridiculous rule. -- nm - Ender Aug 28, 10:36 1
    - how can they shoot rubber bands at each other? such a lame rule -- nm - CQ Aug 28, 10:38
  - why do they assume he's pointing "it" at someone? -- nm - zork Aug 28, 10:32 1
    - I'm going to go out on a limb and say they've seen him do it? -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 28, 10:33
Well, they want him to change the way he signs his name, not change his name. -- nm - mara Aug 28, 10:26 23
- It's all ridiculous, regardless. -- nm - Kim Pine Aug 28, 10:54
- Forget the name part, even if they didn't want to allow a deaf person to just sign the word "hunter" at all that would be ridiculous. It's straight up Big Brother shit. -- nm - Ender Aug 28, 10:40 1
  - Sure. -- nm - mara Aug 28, 10:42
- to what? Toby? - zork Aug 28, 10:30 2
  - "This is my son. His name is 'genocide'. Well, we started with Gene O'Cide, but had to shorten it." -- nm - Beryllium Aug 28, 10:56 1
    - (One day I will have to Dr Stalk myself and find all these random quotes I write that aren't quoting anything, and make a story from them) -- nm - Beryllium Aug 28, 10:56
- Which to someone that's deaf is the same thing. - spamlet Aug 28, 10:27 14
  - I don't agree. A closer analogy, to me, would be asking a kid to change the spelling or pronounciation of their name. - mara Aug 28, 10:29 9
    - it's deeper than that, IMO. -- nm - loosilu Aug 28, 10:38
    - Which would be changing their name. - the wrong element, bad guy Aug 28, 10:37
    - The sign is the word. By using a different sign, it's a different word. - spamlet Aug 28, 10:32
    - no. ASL is a language and making him do a different sign is changing the word. -- nm - zork Aug 28, 10:31
    - Yeah, I'd think that's wrong. -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 28, 10:30 2
      - I'm not saying it's right; I'm just saying it's a better analogy. -- nm - mara Aug 28, 10:32 1
        
        you're wrong, here. -- nm - zork Aug 28, 10:33
    - Still not ok. -- nm - Jim Aug 28, 10:30
    - It's 'as-wee-pay'. -- nm - Nic Cage Aug 28, 10:30
  - This is true. And how old is he? Could get confusing for him. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 28, 10:27 3
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      - Hey, the Columbine kids were a mere dozen years older. Well within the danger zone. - Dr.Vermin Aug 28, 10:32
    - 3 -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 28, 10:28
- They could call him "H" and the sign could be "putting on sunglasses" - Beryllium Aug 28, 10:27
- ~...wants to be a Hunter again...~ -- nm - Dido si Aug 28, 10:26
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As per Jonah Keri's Twitter... A school wants a deaf kid named Hunter to change his name at school because the sign for that is a gun.

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