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Then get a thicker skin. While I understand (and admire) your unbridled determination to protect your children, your postion is wrong. And it's wrong (harmful) to your children.

It's intolerant of others, and it's divisive and destructive to our society in the very same way multiculturalism is.

I've no idea what your reply to me in post #49 was--it was deleted. As a mom, I can't imagine sending a severely peanut allergic, 4 year old child out into the world, peanut free zone or no. I'm thinking of the number of times that I've transported one of the family dogs (peanut flavored dog biscuits) or one of the family parrots (peanuts are a favored treat) to elementary school for 'show & tell'--all relatively recently; my youngest is 14. I'm thinking of the errant Snickers, Reese Cup or Butterfinger that might get to school in a backpack, with Halloween being an especial time of horror. I'm thinking of the deep-fried in peanut oil, sliced turkey sandwich that could be lurking in a child's lunch and the student in my son's class whose parents owned & operated an Asian food restaurant & who commonly delivered a hot meal to their daughter along w/ the deliveries they made to the school teachers who had ordered their lunches from their restaurant, peanut oil used to stir fry. There is simply too much margin for error for one to derive any degree of comfort from mandated 'Peanut Free' zones and the very real danger is that such give one a false sense of security. To imagine that entrusting school staff w/ the epi-pen is another horror, knowing that on any given day a substitute teacher could be sitting in. I wouldn't dream of allowing a child of mine into such a potential situ until such a time as he was old enough to be trusted to diagnose & administer his own first aid.