Posted on 01/05/2005 5:17:35 AM PST by WestVirginiaRebel
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 to accomodate 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.
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I agree with you. Where does it stop? A lot of people, myself included, eat peanut butter because it is a nutritious, inexpensive food. I'm sure a lot of lower income people are able to pack healthy lunches for their children by using peanut butter. Any child that has such a life-threatening condition needs to be trained to stay away from peanut butter - or if that is not feasible, quarantine the child at lunchtime. Oh, but it would make the child feel segregated - you say? He has a life-threatening condition, he needs to get used to having to take extreme measures to protect himself.
I'm tired of the majority of people having to take things to the extreme because of just a few people. This is ridiculous!
I am puzzled by where these severe food allergies came from. Growing up, I never heard about or knew anyone who had these types of allergies. Were illness and death from these allergies misdiagnosed? Is this a new phenomenon? I have to admit that it really seems weird to me that all of a sudden, you have a lot of kids with deathly allergies to peanuts. And while I do sympathize with the children who have these allergies, I am not sure where it stops... and people with the more, shall we say, "creative" ailments (multiple chemical sensitivity, etc.) make it harder for kids with bona fide health issues. I just can't figure out the origin for what I perceive as a sudden surge in peanut allergies.
The Peanut allergy kid is going to have to learn to live in a world filled with peanuts.
Coddling him at school by creating an environment that ignores reality only serves to harm him in the long run, IMO.
What irritates me is when did we decide that we all must live by the "least common denominator" rule?
January 26, 1992 - This is the date the public accomodations provisions of the American with Disabilities Act became effective.
I would never stand for my kids being "quarantined". There are some things that can be avoided with little or no harm to the rest of the school. Sunlight is not one of them. I agree that some kids need to be quarantined....a kid that is allergic to the sun should be homeschooled or something else. Peanut allergies are very common. I don't think it's too much to ask people not to eat peanutbutter or peanuts for a few hours at school. The allergist we see said if another person ate/touched a peanut butter sandwich or some nuts and touched a desk or whatever, it could trigger a severe reaction in some. Having peanuts on one's breath could trigger a similar reaction. No offense, but if it were up to insensitive and ignorant people like you, my kid would be "quarantined" from school. All because someone wants their kid to have a peanut butter sandwich. After what my kids have been through, I look at it as a life or death situation.
So what's next? Is peanut butter going to become illegal?
So what's next? Is peanut butter going to become illegal?
"So what's next? Is peanut butter going to become illegal?"
Don't be ridiculous. I would hope not.
Having peanuts on one's breath could trigger a similar reaction. No offense, but if it were up to insensitive and ignorant people like you, my kid would be "quarantined" from school.So, what if a student has a PB sandwich for breakfast before getting to school? Do you make all his playmates sign contracts stating their peanut-free status?
And how is this different than the myriad of life-threatening allergens that exist?
As for the insensitive/ignorant comment, I suggest you stop thinking that the world revolves around you, or your kids.
I would never stand for my kids being "quarantined".No of course not. You'd rather see EVERYONE ELSE accomodate your child.
Jeez... talk about hubris.
My son has a peanut allergy and yes it is life threating....his throat will swell closing off the air supply......BUT....you don't have to ban peanut butter....we had it in the house the entire time he was growing up. And guess what...that darn ole jar of peanut butter didn't attack him and try to make him eat it.
I'm sorry but I agree - those kids with peanut allergies are going to have to live in the rest of the world when they get out of school & need to learn how to handle it. I had extreme allergies as a kid - chocolate & strawberries to name a couple which brought on SEVERE asthma attacks (also a life & death situation)
Did I get segregated? Heck no! I was taught to stay away from those foods & always carried my inhaler with me. What has happened to PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY? Now an entire school is held responsible & the entire student body suffers for a few students that can't be responsible themselves????
The PC BS has got to stop!
"So, what if a student has a PB sandwich for breakfast before getting to school? Do you make all his playmates sign contracts stating their peanut-free status?
And how is this different than the myriad of life-threatening allergens that exist?
As for the insensitive/ignorant comment, I suggest you stop thinking that the world revolves around you, or your kids."
Your first question is ridiculous.
Question 2: This IS different, because peanuts can be easily avoided at little or no cost to EVERYONE at school.
Would you rather an allergic kid be put in a special school at the tax payers expense.....all so your kid can eat a peanut butter sandwich? As a parent, my world IS my kids. When I hear from insensitive people like you who think my kid should be treated like a leper because of an allergy that can be easily avoided, it makes my blood boil. I hope you never have to see someone you love almost die from an allergic reaction. Of course, if you did, maybe you wouldn't be such an insensitive, ignorant jerk. Don't ever post to me again. It's a waste of both of our time.
I just got back from Phoenix and had peanuts given to me by the flight attendant on both legs of the trip. Don't know what carrier your flying on, but America West still hands out peanuts.
Yeah, I'm old...
FMCDH(BITS)
With all due respect (and this isn't rhetorical--I have a daughter who breaks out in the same hives, suffers the same throat-clogging but with no known cause), whatever happened to personal responsibility? And how in the world is the ban on peanut-butter-toting enforced? Suspension? Jailing? Detention? Expulsion?
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