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To: TheBigB

Wouldn't it be easier to move 1 child, rather than inconvenience many?


2 posted on 01/04/2005 7:55:04 AM PST by eyespysomething (And a happy new year!)
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To: eyespysomething

Maybe everyone should just move to a whole new city.


10 posted on 01/04/2005 7:58:42 AM PST by Sam's Army (No witty taglines currently come to mind)
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To: eyespysomething

"Wouldn't it be easier to move 1 child, rather than inconvenience many?"

Oh, no. Not a "special needs" child. They must be taught that they are more important than everybody else and the world will change to suit them.


14 posted on 01/04/2005 8:00:31 AM PST by L98Fiero
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To: eyespysomething
Wouldn't it be easier to move 1 child, rather than inconvenience many?

Yes, but we must punish "normality" and coddle the fringe groups.

18 posted on 01/04/2005 8:01:47 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: eyespysomething
Wouldn't it be easier to move 1 child, rather than inconvenience many?

Makes sense but I remember when I was in grade school. Packing a peanut butter sandwich was a special day as most days I ate the cafeteria servings. Being able to go sit in the "peanut gallery" would have made it double special! Only problem would be that "trades" would be severely down since everyone had the same thing.

35 posted on 01/04/2005 8:09:43 AM PST by WildTurkey
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To: eyespysomething

That's NOT how the nanny SOCIALIST STATE works comrade!

The many sacrifice for the one.


55 posted on 01/04/2005 8:16:49 AM PST by HMFIC (US Marines, you yell, we shell.)
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To: eyespysomething

I have an allergy to peanuts as well, not diagnosed until I was well into adulthood. Although not severe my doctor said it will become worse with subsequent exposures.

It is easier for me to avoid exposures but in some cases there is no choice. If this is a life-threatening situation for the child by all means protect the child.
In worst cases just exposure to pollen from peanuts can cause a severe reaction that requires imediate medical intervention. So isolating someone from peanut exposure may not be so simple. Peanut butter on unwashed hand of a child can potentially cause a severe reaction for some. So how do you seperate the peanut consumers from those who suffer allergys? The school could ban peanut butter completely so the child would not have to be isolated. But I think giving the child a peanut-free location option is the only choice, like it or not.

Thankfully for me that is not the case as of now, but could be in the future. Even peanut cooking oil causes a noticible reaction so in the big picture avoidance is the best option when possible. Peanut allergy is more common than people realize.


63 posted on 01/04/2005 8:17:54 AM PST by o_zarkman44
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To: eyespysomething

Exactly, it's got to be much easier to maintain a peanut-free table/area for just the allergic child. It's really that simple.

As an adult he'll need to learn to adapt, at least if he wants to enter the workplace. Might as well start now on it being a two-way street. My fiance has a mild allergy to most nuts (peanuts are one of the few he can eat safely). My mother is seriously allergic to pinenuts. Neither of them demand that their entire environment be kept nut-free, they simply are careful to avoid exposure to known allergens.

At least the school isn't banning peanut butter. It's a nutritious and inexpensive source of protein for the overwhelming majority of the population.


93 posted on 01/04/2005 8:29:06 AM PST by Rubber_Duckie_27
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To: eyespysomething
The boy's parents refused to be interviewed but said their child's allergy warrants extraordinary safeguards.

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.

137 posted on 01/04/2005 9:03:49 AM PST by eccentric (aka baldwidow)
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To: eyespysomething
Wouldn't it be easier to move 1 child, rather than inconvenience many?

Not if your a bleeding-heart liberal. The rest of the world is supposed to revolve around and sacrifice to the singular exception.

158 posted on 01/04/2005 9:49:39 AM PST by TChris (Most people's capability for inference is severely overestimated)
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To: eyespysomething
Why does one kid get to set the living standard for the whole school? Our social order is now dictated by the demands of ultra-demanding fabricated minorities! Stupid and dumb.
176 posted on 01/04/2005 11:12:35 AM PST by pointsal
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To: eyespysomething; nuffsenuff; sddINRep; Bikers4Bush; RexFamilia; scott7278; Antonello; hushpad; ...
In the actual news report on tv, this line (on the web page): "There was already a ban on peanut products from being used in foods served by school workers in the cafeteria and the school had tried peanut-free tables before the gallery idea came about." was NOT included. Rather, Jeff Goldblatt reported this: "The superintendent says the school went to great lenghts to accomodate the allegic student well before creating a peanut gallery, but stringent lunch room restrictions were demanded by the parents of the allergic student. Now other parents are questioning 'what's next?' if it's okay to segregate kids for eating something they enjoy."

It's what the PARENTS of the 'special needs' kids demanded.

228 posted on 01/04/2005 7:33:19 PM PST by eccentric (aka baldwidow)
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To: eyespysomething

I can top this. Forget a special table.

There is a lady that works with me, her daughter is in preschool and she is NOT ALLOWED to bring food made from peanuts or that has peanuts in it to eat for her lunch.
The classroom door has a pic a MR. Peanut with a red X on him and above are the words "Peanut Free School Zone".


242 posted on 01/05/2005 5:27:29 AM PST by snarkytart
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To: eyespysomething

No.If you move the one child you are then segregating him from the rest. That is a lawsuit.


260 posted on 01/06/2005 10:44:19 AM PST by My Favorite Headache (I Watch TV, What Do You Want From Me?)
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