Posted on 03/22/2011 6:52:11 PM PDT by Dallas59
ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) – Some public school parents in Edgewater, Florida, want a first-grade girl with life-threatening peanut allergies removed from the classroom and home-schooled, rather than deal with special rules to protect her health, a school official said.
"That was one of the suggestions that kept coming forward from parents, to have her home-schooled. But we're required by federal law to provide accommodations. That's just not even an option for us," said Nancy Wait, spokeswoman for the Volusia County School District.
Wait said the 6-year-old's peanut allergy is so severe it is considered a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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Actually I do know, I just don’t think I should be responsible for other kid’s problems.
If your kid can’t cut it, then raise them yourself. Used to be the norm in America, back when it was great and all this “it takes a village nonsense” didn’t exist. Silly me!
Sorry for my last post to you, I took it another way. My bad! Just tired of so-called “it takes a village” conservatives on this site pushing progressive idealogy.
I am glad for your service in helping out and don’t mind helping out when I can also. I do mind be FORCED to change my or my kids diets because of one kid who shouldn’t be there.
As far as if they can afford it, sure they can. It would all be paid for by the taxpayer anyway and wouldn’t disrupt an ENTIRE school. But they make too much sense.
Home school is the best thing I ever did for my child. I am lucky to have had many FReepers help me like Metmom, Wintertime & Tired of Taxes to name a few to guide me. My thanks to them. If I can I will help my grandchildren be home schooled. My daughter is not bullied , not exposed to things we don’t believe in & finally healthy. And I don’t have that nasty nurse to deal with. In many ways I find it cheaper then public school. I do have to buy the books & we have an online school fee but Sassy is more advanced then she would be in school . Plus she can take care of her horses & we can do shows etc whenever we want.
Homeschooling is an obvious solution, but it may not be practical for the family in question. Homeschooling should ALWAYS be the choice of the parent, not the dictate of the school. Public schools are bound by law to accommodate students with severe allergies, just as they are bound to accommodate students with learning disabilities or physical disabilities.
That said, it is absurd that all the students have to gargle after lunch for the sake of one student’s allergy. I personally think they SHOULD be gargling after lunch anyway for personal hygiene, but it should be voluntary. The direction I see this heading is Special Ed. I hate that, but it may be the only option.
So what are people supposed to pack for their kids for lunch that is affordable? Here in lovely progressive Wake County, NC lunch, if you are not one of their more equal animals, will run you 3-4 dollars if you buy it from the state run cafeteria.
Not even addressing the fascist implications of this story. Our future is not pretty with this type of conditioning.
That’s an interesting observation. I think another factor is that once, people with severe anaphylactic shock would have died, rather than passing on the allergy to offspring. And another is that people are exposed to a wider variety of foods in modern society than they were a few generations ago.
I’m allergic to Vietnamese fish sauce, which is not something your average Midwesterner encountered in the past. And one of my daughters recently had lobster for the first time and discovered it doesn’t agree with her.
Land v. Baptist Medical Center
Not an ADA disability, per this case. ianal
“All these exotic allergies did not exist when I was little.”
How long ago were you “little”? Peanut allergy has been around since peanuts*. And at 1.5% or so of the US population, that’s hardly exotic. 1% is 3 million people in the US.
It’s lawyers and activism that puts it in the news today. If it happened in 1936 and nobody put it in the newspaper, nobody knew about it.
*My dad knew PA people when he was “little” and he’s older than dirt.
I can't believe I just read that.
In addition to peanut sniffing dogs, we have little kids getting the "mark of the peanut" pinned on them (like a scarlet letter) and having to be segregated from their peers for bringing a friggin PBJ sandwich to school.
I'm wondering when the sanity is going to kick in.
When the #65’s outnumber the “compassionate” who think the whole are too well behaved (read: cowed) to protest being penalized. Wait til a large, organized group decides enough is enough and decides to terrorize someone trying to inflict their problem on everyone else.
No problem.
I agree with you. People with issues should not expect the whole world to go out of their way to accommodate them.
That said, I do have little trouble with many of the handicap accessible accommodations. Building structures for ease of entry does a great service to many people.
We need a return to private property rights and away from government.
“Land v. Baptist Medical Center”
Ah, thanks for the reference. I knew there was some case about it where they ruled it was not covered.
She went to preschool, and even though I was there as a volunteer the teachers twice nearly made a fatal mistake.
I have homeschooled her ever since. Why would I put her life in the hands of a bunch of strangers??
My whole family has allergies, so the fact that my daughter has allergies is not surprising.
However, there certainly does seem to be some kind of allergy increase in the general population. When I was a kid I don't remember anyone not being able to eat something because they might die.
Interesting. I’m also in the NYC metro area and thought I’d heard of this but couldn’t remember the specifics. Thanks for the info.
Read that article in my previous post. Oh my gosh, I didn’t read the whole thing last night. It’s very scientific and connects all these anaphylactic allergies directly to the vaccines. I am not totally surprised but I am shocked at how much scientific proof there is.
How stupid are we humans for putting all of these media, diseases, and immune adjuvants under the skin of our precious innocent new babies?
I think there are two reasons for that.
One is that kids with those kind of severe allergies died younger.
I think the other is that if the child did die from allergies, it may not have always been known what the cause of death was.
It may have been written off as a choking death instead of anaphylaxsis.
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