Thanks to juniper Jupiter, thanks to the thread about bibles being taken away in school, the same fox news channel video spilled over into a report concerning a blind boy that had his cane taken away by a school and replaced with a pool noodle.

Facts:
The school furnished the cane.
A bus driver thought the 8 year old was going to get violent with the cane.
The school says the boy hit someone on the bus with the cane.
The boy says "it's a lot harder" to get around with the pool noodle.
The moo says he's supposed to use the cane all the time. "That's his eyes."
Duh & Moo have let on that the little bugger is still going around town after hours with "nothing but a pool noodle."

Observations:
A lot of cane choices on Amazon. All from $7.50&up. Probably more choices at the local pharmacy. If he needs it so bad, why are they dependent on the tax-payer funded local school to supply the cane? What did they do before the school gave him the loan of a cane? Asshole drama seekers.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/12/17/missouri-school-punished-blind-child-by-replacing-cane-with-pool-toy/

Im gonna have to side with parents on this one, ive known a few blind people in my life and a pool noodle would work, if he's (purpose) hitting other kids with it it needs to be corrected and dealt with, but a pool noodle will do no good

Yeah, if he's hitting people with it, then he needs to be punished. But a pool noodle? Forgive me if I sortof find that hilarious. If he did hit someone on purpose, this is a hell of a punishment! If he didn't, then people are picking on a blind kid.

I think the bigger issue is why the parents didn't get him a cane instead of waiting on the school to give him one. And after they took the cane back, why didn't the parents go get him a cane instead of taking him around town with the noodle?

I wouldn't have taken his cane from him if I was his teacher or principal, I'd have found a different way to discipline him. But my question is still: why in the hell do the parents act like the only way he can have a cane is if the government gives it to him?

Any disabled person child or adult is entitled to REASONABLE accommodation(having a cane if you are blind is reasonable, getting to download childporn without consequences bc ur autistic is not)

As is usual in these cases, it smells as if we aren't getting the whole story. Betcha.

The big question to me is why this kid didn't already have his own cane. Why was the school expected to furnish one? Is the kyd not totally blind?

Conversely, is this a case of zero tolerance gone amok as we've seen in so many other schools? "I think he might have been about to hit another person with his cane, so it's a weapon and has to be taken away."