Wouldn't it be easier to move 1 child, rather than inconvenience many?
This is getting out of hand.. What next a meat free zone?
I believe HL Menkcen used to define a Puritan as "someone who is worried that someone else, somewhere, may be having fun".
My definition of a Leftist: "Some who thinks everyone should have to suffer because someone, somewhere is unfortunate".
Get a grip, Mike ... "suffer"? SUFFER? Over a hundred thousand dead in Asia, and you think sitting at a different table during lunch is "suffering"? Grow up, before your maybe-gonna-be-my-stepdaughter-someday grows up to be a useless, whiny, professional victim.
This is a tough one.
Peanut allergies are serious and some kids can have major reactions (i.e. life threatening reactions) from the slightest contact to peanuts.
I think they are going a bit far. But there should be a concerted effort to keep the allergic kids away from potential exposure.
Oddly, I don't remember kids dropping dead in the cafeteria during peanut-butter day.
I would think it would be easier to segregate the poor kid that allergic to peanuts than to segregate the kids who bring peanut butter for lunch. Maybe the parents of the allergic kid ought to homeschool him... no, wait, then he couldn't be indoctrinated by all the teachers preaching their liberal diatribe to young and tender minds.
A report on the radio this morning indicated that 3 million people in the U.S. are allergic to peanuts.
In other words 1%. So potentially 00% of the kids could be eating in the peanut butter segregated area.
When PB&Js are outlawed, only outlaws will have PB&Js
I'm allergic to garlic; I should request special accomodations.
...and I'm italian too!
It won't be long until a kid is suspended for leaving his sandwich unattended or waving it around.
All a parent needs to do now is cut the sandwich into the shape of a gun. It would become a weapon of mass destruction.
They should segregate the allergic child. If this is a problem for his mommy, then perhaps she can teach the child not to eat anything from others because of his/her allergy.
I'm sick of this minority rule BS, and I'm sick of the phrase "for the sake of the children".
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've always felt that if a person is exposed to what they are allergic to, he/she will eventually develop an immunity to it. So shouldn't that one kid be fed peanut butter for his own good?
My question is, has the school ensured that ALL products served by the school AND brought to the school, besides PB&Js, are peanut and peanut oil free - guaranteed produced and packaged in a peanut free environment?
Peanut oil and peanut exposure is quite common in a lot of food products. Protecting the allergic child should be done by eating in another location. What about contact with peanut/peanut oil product eaters at recess? Who is policing that problem? Does the school have anaphylactic shock treatment kits in every room the allergic child sits in?
This seems to be a really haphazard step by the school probably instigated by peanut butter haters.
Mother killed by tomato allergyA mother of four died from a rare allergic reaction to tomatoes while making spaghetti bolognese for her children.
Raya French, 37, was opening a tin of pre-prepared mince and chopped tomatoes when she went into anaphylactic shock. She knew that she had the allergy but thought that she was affected only by the raw fruit.
Her eldest daughter, Alexandra, 15, found her collapsed on the kitchen floor at the family home in the village of Tankerton, near Whitstable, Kent. The teenager called an ambulance and Mrs French was taken to the Kent and Canterbury Hospital. She was unconscious when she arrived and died four days later after being kept on a life-support machine.
ATTENTION ALL SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS. Enact immediate national ban on all tomato products in public schools.
Put me on a diet of peanut butter sammiches and EVERYONE will be wanting to move.
Seriously, as someone that deals with the public, I can see this is one of those things where no matter what you decide to do, at least half of the parents will be mad. The trick is to try and keep the herd evenly divided.
Sorry but being allergic to some food is not a badge of honor or some kind of claim to fame. It's a sign of weakness and physical ailments. If anyone should be segregated it should be the allergic.
I know I'll get flamed from this, but for what it's worth, here is my 2 cents...
Segregating one child to eat alone because he/she has an allergey doesn't seem like a viable option to me. It seems like a punishment to have to be separated from the rest of the children. Allergies can have life-threatening consequences -- I know from experience with my own child. I learned that even smelling an allergen can cause serious events if a person is that sensitive.
A peanut gallery for those, plural, who have pbj sandwiches makes a little more sense as they will not have to eat alone -- theoretically -- unless only one child brings pbj on any given day. It also may be a bit easier to pack a lunch without peanut butter so not to populate the peanut gallery. The allergic child does not have the option to leave the allergy at home.