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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You stated that your sons could have a reaction by someone BREATHING on them after eating PB.
I asked a simple question - What if a child has a PB sandwich before school (at the bus stop perhaps)?
And I'll ask again, why don't we accomodate the photo-sensitive? Aren't their "special needs" as important as your sons'?
What we need to do is ban kids!
Heck, liberals have no problem with killing them before they're born...
Because your sense of self-importance, in conjunction with your ad hominem attacks certainly makes it sound like it.
Proud insensitive, ignorant jerk bump.
(If it's so easily avoidable, why isn't your kid avoiding it instead of making the rest of the world bend to him?)
No offense, but if it were up to insensitive and ignorant people like you,
Holey Moley. But, moving on, I really don't see how you can, in all conscience, allow your kids to go out into a situation where they might be exposed to peanuts, peanut breath, residual PB & J on sticky fingers, peanut butter cookies... It truly must be frightening to roll the dice every morning when you pack your kids off to public school & the idea of field trips...that's a situ best left unsaid.
The Peanut butter thing is just the latest fiasco. Lets look at the ADFA act. The bill that was passed for handicapped. How much has that bill cost the USA. All the sidewalks torn up and ramps put in , anyone who goes into business building handicapped toilets and having wider aisles for wheelchairs the urinals lowered so now half the urine goes in the floor. The ADA act is a ridiculous answer.It goes on and on automatic doors for the handicapped, special busses. Things that cost millions and are seldom if ever used.
Proud insensitive, ignorant jerk bump.LOL... just to let you know, the Monthly Meeting of PIIJ's will be on Saturday, Jan 15.
Well then, we may as well take the next step - one can't eat peanut butter on toast at home for breakfast then come to school, because they might breath on an allergic person. Are we going to have toothbrush police or somekind of peanut breathalyzer that has to be passed before admission?
Perhaps these children that are so allergic can't go into grocery stores, since there may be some bulk peanuts not in wrappers in the store.
What about a family where the breadwinner works in a peanut factory and comes home with peanut dust on their clothes They pick up and hug their child and the child comes to school with peanut dust on their clothes. Should we have rules about that child being in the same classroom or lunchroom?
Can a non-allergic child not have a snickers bar in their lunch? How about left over chinese food cooked in peanut oil?
I know that probably sounds flippant to you. It isn't meant to. I understand your concern about your child, and it must be incredibly difficult to avoid peanuts and peanut products. When a child is at a location away from your supervision, you must worry all the time.
However, when we cater to the needs of the few pretty soon nothing will be allowed. Some people are deathly allergic to shellfish - maybe we shouldn't allow children to bring a lunch has traces of shrimp in it to school. Some people are incredibly allergic to latex. Maybe we shouldn't paint the school walls with latex paint. Some people are so allergic to cats or dogs that they'll have trouble breathing. Should families with pets have to maintain separate "animal free clothing" so that animal dander won't cause a reaction in sensitive individuals?
I also believe the allergic children should be the ones seated at a separate table rather than the non allergic ones. Unfortunately, they're saddled with this issue and they're going to have a (probable) lifetime of having to deal with it. While you are certainly free to disagree, I believe it isn't doing them (or anyone else) any favors to have them think that the world has to change because of their needs.
I make it a point to bring a large container of peanuts aboard every time I fly. I munch a few and then exhale several times before swallowing, then take another mouthfull and repeat. I ensure that there is a liberal amount of peanut "plasma" in the airplane's atmosphere.
The peanut allergy fanatics were encouraged by the anti-smoking fanatics who have put smoking on the fringes and the anti-perfume/cologne crowd. IMHO, if you are that allergic to peanuts that the mere smell brings on life-threatening reactions, then you have no business forcing your allergy on the rest of us.
If my actions on the peanuts seem rude and obnoxious, they are no more so than the anti-smell crowd who insist that we follow their desires implicitly.
You walk, look, and quack like a duck. "Oooooh, I have special needs. Society should bend to suit me." I thought that was one of the basic liberal mantras.
We really need school vouchers and choice.
Put your kids where they are with others like them. Don't force the majority to not have something they like just to protect 1 or 2. You should have to accomodate to us, not vice versa.
"You walk, look, and quack like a duck."
Just because someone here doesn't agree with a group of people, doesn't make them a liberal. You don't know me. I consider that a positive.
We had a girl in my daughters class a few years ago, with that allergy, they put a big notice on the door, just to make people aware of it, but basically her mother took the responsibility of making sure she didn't go near or eat peanuts (imagine that??).
Off the subject: Love your tagline.
Why don't they just paint a red "P" on the kids who bring peanut butter so the rest of the kids can look and point and say, "Killer!! You're trying to kill that peanut allergy kid! Murderer!"
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