Posted on 08/30/2007 6:42:03 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3
BRANDON, S.D. (AP) Mom's brownies and other homemade goodies have been banned from grade schools in the Brandon-Valley School District.
The ban is intended to protect kids who are allergic to nuts.
The "no shared treats" policy means no more suckers, cookies or even apples. And it means shared treats will not be allowed at Halloween, Christmas and Valentine's parties in grade-school classrooms.
School district officials say the ban will be strictly enforced.
Although the district no longer allows shared treats in elementary schools, students may bring their own snacks from home.
The ban does not apply to Brand Valley middle school and high school classes.
"If you want to provide such substitutes to the children of other people, at your expense, that is fine with me.:
PM me and well arrange for the two or three friends you mentioned to get the 20$ more a school year that would cost..
Were it a school or daycare where my kid went I would..
Isloate some kids.
For their own safety as well as everyone’s peace of mind.
Sorry but if it were my daughter, that’s what I would do. My own could not attend some field trips because of mosquitoes. I didn’t ask them to change the trips to accomodate her.
Yes but soy *dust* or skin contact with residual soy is *not* deadly..
You do WELL enough!
“Then you must advocate that those children whose refuse to vaccinate them on religious grounds leave a state-owned building because they might spread a disease that could kill a child?”
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How would a non vaccinated kids spread a disease to a vaccinated one?
Qucik come up with some more extreme non related examples...
And isn’t there now studies about giving girls soy being bad for them because it mimics estrogen in the body.
Great. So now I throw my daughters into early puberty because a child is allergic to nuts. I have enough problems avoiding beef.
Your "decent human being" schtick is getting a bit old.
I consider myself a decent human being as do most people I know, heck even people who don't like me will admit I am a decent human being. However, I refuse to rid my life of peanuts or peanut products on the off chance I may at some point encounter someone with an allergy to them.
You have already stated you plan on homeschooling your child, so why are you so protective of this edict from this public school?
Um, you missed the point I made about the taste of the stuff.
“It’s the latest, “My kid is special,” ploy.”
Is that what it is? And all this time my child’s doctor said it was anaphylaxis.
Thanks.
What brand and year because I had the stuff not all that long ago and it was a pretty good substitute (seemed just a bit dry)
“It’s the latest, “My kid is special,” ploy.”
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Its pretty sound science the the number of peanut allergies is rising:
“There is no concrete evidence to explain the rising number of peanut allergies in industrialized countries over the past decade.
Theories include: greater exposure to peanut proteins, which are present in everything from creams and lotions to processed foods. The hygiene theory is popular among some scientists. They claim that over-sanitized conditions in the West have caused immune systems to overreact to allergens in the absence of other infections.
Meanwhile, as scientists work toward finding answers, a new law in Ontario is helping to protect children who suffer from deadly food allergies. “
” An estimated 3 million Americans are allergic to peanuts and/or nuts that grow on trees, such as walnuts, cashews, and pistachios. The allergy accounts for the majority of fatal and near-fatal anaphylactic reactions. In a recent review of this topic for The New England Journal of Medicine, 4/25/02), Hugh A. Sampson, MD, wrote that 80% of the people who died from allergic reactions to food had not been given appropriate information about how to: avoid accidental food-induced reactions, recognize early symptoms, and self-treat immediately.
The rising incidence of peanut allergy in the U.S. and other westernized countries cannot be explained by the ever-increasing consumption. The per capita consumption of peanuts in the U.S. is similar to that of China where peanut allergy is rare. One possibility described by Dr. Sampson is the differences in how peanuts are cooked. In the U.S., most peanuts are dry-roasted, including those destined for peanut butter. But in China, peanuts are typically boiled or fried. “
Even a vaccinated child can get a minor/mild case of the disease vaccinated against.
It happened to my daughter with chicken pox. All of the children in her pre-school came down with a mild case because of the one child who was not vaccinated. There were only 7 children, 6 had been vaccinated.
“The vaccines used in child immunisation programmes are generally highly effective, usually protecting well over 95 per cent of children.”
its not 5%, its well less than 5%
and even in that less than 5% “So if vaccines don’t always work, why immunise? Because it’s the general experience that in such cases, the illness is usually much less severe in those who are immunised compared to those who aren’t.”
Since when did we become a country where people couldn’t go a couple of hours without peanuts?
Let the kids eat their peanut butter sandwiches after school of it’s so vital to their lives.
Well that’s not completely true, because there is the occasional tofu, and since we love chicken, and chicken feed has soy beans in it...............
When our daughter was an infant the pediatrician suggested soy based formula to supplement breast feeding because both my husband and brother had been milk intolerant as children. The first time he attempted to give her a bottle of it, she spit it right back into daddy's face!!!!
Well, by your reasoning, every child should be vaccinated so that the less than 5% will not get a disease, right?
Even chicken pox can be life threatening.
That stuff even smells nasty.
I'm quite tired of people setting up straw men, using a slope argument, and calling me a nanny stater because on this *one* issue I disagree with them (that a school should be able to set dietary guidelines to preserve the life of some kids)...
After all because you may home school that means *everyone* can do it or they are lazy parents, and a school board saying don’t bring nuts is self centered but saying that your kid can eat whatever and damn that it might kill a kid in their classroom is not. Saying the allergic people are basically dead people walking so why bother..
These are all things said on this thread and I have about had it, I pray non of you ever have to confront a seriously peanut allergic loved one..
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