Administrators at a Kansas elementary school tried to punish a blind eight-year-old by replacing his cane with a foam pool noodle after he allegedly misbehaved on the school bus.

Local FOX affiliate WDAF reports that a school district spokeswoman confirmed the story, claiming the eight-year-old Dakota Nafzinger's cane was confiscated after he hit someone with it. The blind eight-year-old "posed a danger to himself and others," the school said.

His father says he sometimes raises his cane, which the bus driver may have misinterpreted as a violent gesture.

Nafzinger reportedly suffers from a rare condition called bilateral anopthalmia that caused him to be born without eyes.

He told WTKR the school told him he had to use the pool noodle for two weeks.

"Why would you do that? Why would you take the one thing that he's supposed to use all the time? That's his eyes," his mother told WDAF.