You are taking this far too personally and only looking at it from the standpoint of a parent with an allergic child, you are refusing to look at the situation from the point of view of the vast majority of parents without allergic children.
Amen!
I believe its the decent, Christian and American thing to do..
Very quickly in this thread it became ‘those damn selfish spoiled peanut allergic kids are imposing on us’. And you’re dang right I take it personally. I cant separate out the fact I have to make a freak of my daughter when I take her to the playground by asking other parents if their kids had peanuts that morning. She cant just run out and play, I wipe down swings, I shower at work before going home because a co-worker thinks I’m imposing by begging him not to shell peanuts five feet from me.
Why do I do all this? As a young kid my daughter has a three or four year window where she can outgrow a peanut allergy, its very rare but it happens. But if she has any major reaction the odds of her outgrowing it shrink to almost nothing!
The other reason is because peanuts are the only allergy that can suddenly spike without exposure. To get a sever allergy to fish or soy or milk it takes allot of exposure over a prolonged periods of time (with very rare exceptions) with peanuts it can happen with just one.
Hell people have implied that this is some sort of ‘Im the center of the universe’ attitude rather than a ‘Id like to have my kid live long enough to take these precautions on their own mentality’s. I would trade almost anything to take that allergy away from my kid but apparently I’m some spoiled nanny stater who just wants to impose on others..
I only have a half dog in this race, my wife and I plan to home school but I feel for other allergic parent who have these worries more than someone who might have to spend 10cent more on their lunch.