The reason peanuts have to be banned has nothing to do with students trading sandwiches. It is because the allergy can be so severe that if one child gets peanut butter on the lunch table and wipes it up with a napkin, there is oil left on the table that could be fatal for a child with a severe peanut allergy. Likewise, if a child has peanut oil on their hands, and touches someone who has a peanut allergy it can be absorbed through the skin and cause a reaction. This happened to boy in elementary school with me. He died.
All of the concern is not about children that are over pampered or not smart, it is about an allergy that is so severe that many people die from it each year. Children with peanut allergies are normal kids, that can and should attend school with other children. I can’t believe the number of posters who would rather tell the allergic child they aren’t fit to attend school, than tell their child that they will have to eat another kind of sandwich for lunch. It is very disappointing.
So I guess it’s fine for this kid to move this thing to the next step, and demand that the whole country caters to his needs.
They already took away peanuts on airlines. No more peanuts at the baseball game or the circus. No restaurant can cook with peanut oil. The Texas Roadhouse has to stop serving peanuts out of huge tubs.
When he gets a job, he gets to demand that no other employee makes their child a peanut butter sandwich or brings peanut brittle to share in the lunch room. No jars with peanut M and Ms. No Christmas cookies with peanut butter. And then, he gets to sue the employer if his demands aren’t met.
Lovely.
How are they going to function as they get older? I’m talking high school and beyond. Look, if you ask for accomnodation, no problem. The vast majority of people are reasonable enough to do it. But to DEMAND it under threat of lawsuit or police firepower pisses me off and shuts me down! Maybe the child can have a separate room or table and those kids who haven’t brought any allergic items can sit with them. It might be a neat way to meet new friends. But to DEMAND a change in the other 99% is plain wrong. I won’t accept it or your premise.
“I can’t believe the number of posters who would rather tell the allergic child they aren’t fit to attend school, than tell their child that they will have to eat another kind of sandwich for lunch. It is very disappointing.”
If the allergic reaction is as easy to induce as you state and the only remedy is the one you propose, then it follows that all peanut products need to be banned everywhere.
What these really seems like is that some don’t want to tell some kids that they can’t have something that other kids can. Rather than that, they tell all kids that they can’t have it.
This reminds me of the school banning shirts with flags. Seems some students used certain Latin American flags as gang symbols. The school reaction was to ban all flag shirts. Same exact logic. If we have to ban something for some, then we have to ban it for all.