CherryPanda
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- Aug 12, 2014
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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.
They say Dakota is like any other 8-year-old, only he was born without eyes — something in the medical world known as Bilateral Anopthalmia. Still, Dakota loves to sing, fish and swim — despite the extra work those activities require from someone who is blind.
North Kansas City School District apologizes for taking away blind child 8217 s cane fox4kc.com
Frankly speaking, I am shocked. How can anyone one be so unreasonable and even cruel towards the boy? I mean, it’s like taking someone’s hand or leg for misbehaving. What’s wrong with this school and its staff?
Yeah, they apologized, but they should think before doing such stuff in the first place.