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Those children that truly have peanut allergies typically have severe reactions- much more severe than your hayfever allergies. Anaphylactic shock is not something any teacher, or child, should have to deal with. Children with peanut allergies know what they have to avoid and usually carry (or deposit with the school nurse) an epi-pen. Your putting quotations around the term “allergic” is deameaning and belittling to something that these poor children have to go through. Do you do the same for diabetic children? Those that are retarded?

42 posted on 09/04/2007 4:41:10 PM PDT by brothers4thID (FDT: "Every notice that while our problems are getting bigger, our politicians are getting smaller?")

Do you do the same for diabetic children?

I am a diabetic. I do not ask for nor do I receive special treatment. I do not request that the people around me or in shared classes forgo their lifestyles for my "benefit". I learned at an early age exactly what my limitations are and this was done without the assistance or interference of local government.