"If this allergic kid goes all thru skrewel without having to exercise prudence regarding peanut butter, WHAT WILL HE DO WHEN HE GRADUATES TO THE REAL WORLD?"
The child in question is a first grader. First graders are prone to fits of poor judgement. For some, that means eating glue or things that they pull out of their nose. For this child, eating a bite of a friend's PB sandwich could be fatal.
Of course, you could be right, maybe we should also put unlabeled bottles of drain cleaner, pesticides, paint thinner, etc. on the cafeteria tables as well. After all, those kids will have to deal with those things when they graduate, might as well weed them out now...
Personally, I can't imagine the stress the parents feel sending their first grade child out every day hoping he will remember the rules about food, wondering when the school/hospital will call to tell them he might not survive trading lunches with a buddy.
Should everyone else be highly incovenienced, probably not. Put the kid at a table where no PB is allowed. Problem solved with minimal inconvenience to anyone.
what a load, LOL. I don't mind your extraneous facts and empathies, but without outrightly doing so, you put a lot of words into my mouth.
The single abberance in this entire story is the kids allergy to Peanut butter, period. Banning normal kids from eating their lunch with their normal friends who might not have peanut butter on any given day is preposterous.
The kid with the allergy warrants a peanut-butter-free table. But peanut butter eating normal kids are being wrongfully discriminated against because of someone elses problem. Its just plain wrong!