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I think there's a bit more to this than what the headline reads. The pool noodle was in really bad taste and the school should be shamed for it, but taking away the kid's cane during a bus ride was the right thing to do, assuming the report of him using it as a weapon are true.
If the accusations are true, the blind kid was using his cane as a weapon. Since there was not comment on exactly what that was, there's no way to know the voracity of the statement or how he was doing it, but I would imagine that he was swinging it at someone or listening for kids coming down the aisle and tripping them with it.
They want to be treated as normal. And in this case, they are.
When you were a kid, if you or another kid were whacking someone with a stick, ball, ballerina shoes or whatever, the adults would only tell you to knock it off and not take away the object you were using to hit the other kids? That's all that should have been done here, that would have brought his behavior in line. Giving the kid the pool noodle is where these people got it wrong, like I said from the get go. And it's my "instinct" to correct a misbehaving child within reason while I'm supervising that child and responsible for him, regardless if he's blind, deaf or even has the misfortune of being redheaded.
I said my piece with the first post. After that it's just a matter of seeing how much I can get the old man to froth at the mouth and wet his diaper.
