[4mycountry]

A mere inconvenience about one food item, isn't going to ruin a kids life, versus ending another kids life. We're not banning pens or pencils, or food in whole, just one item that happens to cause harm to to many kids with these allergies.

But what if the child is very sensitive to peanuts? Do you have any idea how many foods have peanuts or peanut oil in them? The list is as tall as I am! I'll say it again: homeschool the child. Make it safe for him, and easier on everyone else. I mean, come on -- this ban would have to be in place for as long as the kid is in public school. That means from about 5 to about 18. That's 13 years of everybody in every grade banning every form of peanut. That's ridiculous.

[DBrow]

And what about beyond school? Ban peanut in college, in the dorms and classrooms?

And the workplace, all of the workplaces?

And now that you are messing with private entities and not public, why allow restaurants to serve peanut?

My feeling on this is that you teach the child to cope with living in a risky world, and make some reasonable accommodations like a peanut-free zone (which you really can't trust). At some point the kid is going to have to learn to cope with the real world where lethal poison is sold in vending machines all over. Why not now?

If one of you were to invite me over for dinner, I'd ask that you don't serve me peanuts, or put out a bowl of peanuts in the room. A personal request for an accommodation.

[Sonny M]

I mean, come on -- this ban would have to be in place for as long as the kid is in public school. That means from about 5 to about 18. That's 13 years of everybody in every grade banning every form of peanut. That's ridiculous.

We're not banning water here.

Its one lousy vegetable (ironically, I actually like peanuts, go figure), we're not sentencing these kids to prison.

So one veggie is banned from school because of these hyper allergies (which are becoming to common now, I'd like to find out why).

We're not asking kids to alter their entire way of life, just no peanuts in school, its not like we're telling them they have to strip naked every day.

My friends sons school banned peanuts (before my friends kid got there, and not because of him) and they haven't had any problems outside of a couple of minor complaints.

Its no different then telling kids you can't bring broccali to school or something.

No PB&J sandwitches is not going to kill some kid or end the world or bring back the nazis.

The kids will be fine.