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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I thought the ADA provided reasonable accommodations? A simple solution would be for the girl to stay in one room or section of the school.
I have a friend (we’re in our late 40s) with a very severe peanut allergy. If her husband eats a peanut butter sandwich for lunch and kisses her six hours later, after brushing his teeth, she swells up and hyperventilates.
However, she survived public school in the 1970s, without the whole school’s being asked to accommodate her, or “contraband” sniffing dogs.
As a kid I refused to eat anything other than a PB&J sandwich for lunch everyday. So what would they do to me? Kick me out of school.
'Accommodation' does not mean stopping the world's rotation and sending in sniffer dogs.
A “reasonable accommodation” would be making sure there was food available for her that did not include peanuts.
Foster care and re-education.
What would these socialists loons do if one of the children was allergic to dogs?
Unfortunately, in today’s day and age, yes. There are entire districts in the area I live that have a zero tolerance to peanuts or any product that contains products. And yes, as a parent you have to sign stating you understand this (and other district policies) policy
This is getting out of hand. In the 70s-80s the kids had to learn how to live in a world with peanut in it (almost as if the school were teaching kids how to live on their own). Then lawyers and FAAN activists got involved, and parents were told their kids would DIE and schools were told the lawyers would SUE.
Now here we are with peanut sniffing dogs. Gee, what if the PA kid is allergic to DOGS?
THAT is the reasonable solution. Obviously, there is no one of reason at this school.
Brevard & Volushi counties are very liberal. Lot’s of people on the dole. With the Cape being shut down by the idiot they voted for they are in for a whole lot more misery. And I thought the dumb a$$es in Kalifornia where I live were stupid.
PS I have relatives in Florida, I know.
Who has the Reason to Homeschool ping list?
This must be reason 99,998 give or take a reason or two.
As I’ve seen with other children with severe disabilities (one example would be severe anxiety disorder), the school pays for a tutor so the child is provided with an education in their home environment. Why couldn’t the school accomodate her severe disability in her safe home environment providing a tutor? I wonder if her school district has a home school academy that she could be provided the bulk of her education in her home environment and then only in the school 1-2 half days a week
I had a girl in my Girl Scout troop with a gluten allergy, and another with diabetes. We made sure they had a snack they could eat during the meeting. We did not have to eliminate all wheat products or sugar from everyone else’s food or bring in the K-9 Officer to search for a cookie with *gasp* wheat flour or icing.
Not that the girls wouldn’t have loved seeing a police dog ...
I had a girlfriend who did that to me. Though my reaction was rather instantaneous.
I never realized I was allergic to her.
I guess its a good thing she's an ex-girlfriend.
Where did this peanut allergy thing come from?
When I was a kid, we all ate PB sandwiches and I don’t recall anyone ever swelling up, much less dying.
I know the allergy is quite real but is there any science explaining why?
LOL!
The peanut or (fill in the blank) allergy thing is completely out of hand.
On one hand, I despise this whole “accomodate me” mentality.
However, if we are smart, we can parlay this into a deconstruction of the minority mentality and, instead, promote the individual.....the foundation of our God-given rights and the foundation of this nation.
Now here we are with peanut sniffing dogs. Gee, what if the PA kid is allergic to DOGS?
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or what if the kid is muslim and feels that dogs are “unclean”?
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