Posted on 01/04/2005 7:54:07 AM PST by TheBigB
YORKTOWN, Ind. — Savannah Dowling is a typical 8-year-old girl; much of her protein comes from peanut butter sandwiches.
However, if she wants to bring one to Central Indiana's Pleasant View Elementary School, she has to eat it at a special table in the cafeteria to accommodate one first grader with a severe allergy. Soon she'll have to take her lunch to an area the school is calling the "peanut gallery" so the one child with the peanut allergy isn't affected.
"I don't think everybody should have to suffer because of one kid," said Mike Raper, a critic of the idea and fiancé of Savannah's mother. "I think it's a terrible precedent. Basically, because there's nowhere to draw the line. You've got people allergic to milk, wheat. My own son's diabetic. There's just no where to draw that line."
School Superintendent Mary Ann Irwin called it "one of the most challenging" accommodations the school has made for its students.
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How soon before business's have to post Federal Mandated "Peanut Waring" signs and stiff fines with jail time for violators?
Where are all the trial lawyers in this Peanut Frenzy?
Where is the FDA? Shouldn't there be a ban on peanuts and peanut products?
Seems to me they should remove the one child with the allergy.
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OK, my 2 cents...my niece is very allergic to peanuts. A shot kit must be with her at all times, that means her parents have one and her teacher. If she is exposed and does not have her kit she will die...period. Peanuts allergies are deadly and basically there is no cure.
I agree the easiest thing to do would be to place my niece in a special room by herself (everyday)for lunch, but by separating just they ones that have PB all can be together whan no PB is present. JMHO
Hey Tax-Chick,
Go easy here. It is all in context, and not in the context of the tsunami. This thread doesn't have anything to do with the tsunami victims. Mike was making a valid point.
When having peanut butter is a criminal act, only criminals will have peanut butter.
Remember Bubble Boy? Okay, then how come we didn't put the entire world in the bubble and let little Bubbble Boy wander about free, without fear of catching our germs. This makes about as much sense.
I think the ability to learn from everyone needs to transend to us pig headed adults.
Wouldn't it be easiest than to not let the child in the lunchroom at all?
The great thing about peanut butter is that it doesn't have to be refrigerated. Kids stay much healthier.
ROTFL!
Remember the prophetic words of New York Mayor Emmet P. Cudd, as memorialized in Jean Merrill's definitive account of The "Pushcart War" which erupted in New York in 2006:
Emmett P. Cudd—who was already mayor and did not want to lose his job—made his famous “Peanut Butter Speech.”
MAYOR CUDD: (to audience) Friends and New Yorkers. New York is one of the biggest cities in the U.S.A. We are proud of that fact. What makes a city big? Big business, naturally! And what is the difference between big business and small business? I’ll tell you. If you order fourteen cartons of peanut butter, you are running a small business. If you order four hundred cartons of peanut butter, you are running a big business.
Fourteen cartons of peanut butter, you can get delivered in a station wagon. But for four hundred cartons of peanut butter, you need a truck. And you need a big truck. Big trucks mean progress. My opponent, Archie Love, is against trucks. He is, therefore, against progress. Maybe he is even against peanut butter!
NARRATOR 2: Very few people wanted to be against progress. No one wanted to be against peanut butter! And everyone wanted to be proud of their city, because they always had been.
NARRATOR 3: Thus, Archie Love did not get elected, and the trucks kept getting bigger.
"If you had a child with a peanut allergy so severe he or she could die, you wouldn't consider this out of hand. The daughter of one of my friends has gone into immediate shock from the breath of somebody who had just eaten peanut butter.
"I'm not sure that what the school has done is the best answer, but an anaphylactic reaction to peanuts is not a liberal PC thing; it's life and death."
Two words: Home School
In order to get seven hours per day of free babysitting, the parents are willing to play their child's life against the odds that some other little kid isn't going to accidentally expose him to peanut butter.
From the report I heard, the parents refused efforts to protect their child by segregation, instead demanding all other students be forced into this situation.
God, I hope nobody is born with an allergy to oxygen, we'd all be doomed.
See, if it was my child, and I was that worried, and it was that serious, then I don't think I'd want him in the cafeteria at all.
When the child's mother sent her to the public school, she gave up much more important freedoms than the "freedom" to decide where to sit during lunch. Their schools, their rules ... that's a small part of the price you pay for "free, public education."
And I didn't say the guy shouldn't object (although his standing as "mom's boyfriend" is a little shaky, imo) just that his exaggerated language caused me to not take him seriously.
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