Oh this makes me mad! A blind person's cane is NOT a privilege, it's their method for mobility! Would you take away a kid's wheelchair??? Their leg braces??? No, people would be up in arms. It's exactly the same.

Do they punish sighted kids by blindfolding them for the duration then? If not, then it's clearly discrimination :)

The headline is a little clickbaity, but I decided to read the article and watch the video before passing judgement. First, a little humiliation is not abuse. Teachers now can't put kids in the corner as punishment, because everybody wants to coddle children. Everything is abuse, but still, doing it for a week. Dude, seriously!

It's mainly bad because the noodle is totally impractical as a cane. I get taking it away until he got off the bus if he was going home. If he were going to school, maybe calling his mother would've been a good idea, but schools don't like including parents in decision making all that much anymore. Maybe they share Melissa Harris-Perry's belief that parents are not wholely responsible for the care of children. Kids should be raised by the collective and the parent shouldn't be given the right to make decisions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3qtpdSQox0

I don't know, total speculation here. The point is, the school screwed up. Give the kid back his friggin cane assholes.