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Peanut allergy stirs controversy at Florida school(Peanut Sniffing Dogs Search Classrooms!)
Yahoo ^ | 3/22/2011 | Yahoo News

Posted on 03/22/2011 6:52:11 PM PDT by Dallas59

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To: GladesGuru

Thanks!

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Well, I stand corrected!

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81 posted on 03/22/2011 9:19:50 PM PDT by BwanaNdege ("All it takes for Evil to triumph is for good MEN to do nothing." Edmund Burke)
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To: pandoraou812

When you need an Epi-Pen injection, you don’t have that kind of time.


82 posted on 03/22/2011 9:20:39 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom

No you don’t & we all know how to use one now. There is one here at my house for Matt. I hope he is home schooled but the fact is both his parents have to work & I am moving.


83 posted on 03/22/2011 9:25:49 PM PDT by pandoraou812 (You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.)
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To: mountn man
What are they going to do if they discover they have a sniffing dog allergic to peanuts?

I'm sure once there is one, we'll have a hundred more faking it to collect disability.

84 posted on 03/22/2011 9:28:59 PM PDT by Gil4 (Sometimes it's not low self-esteem - it's just accurate self-assessment.)
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To: metmom

Absolutely. And Kids are under a lot of stress these days! Between hours of homework (what are they doing in school again?), a cacophany of noise, music, TV, etc, going on all the time, and the social issues, like kindergarden sex ed., etc. going on these days, I’m sure that stress is a huge factor. Great observation, I forgot how much stress is a factor in all infirmities, including allergic reactions.


85 posted on 03/22/2011 9:35:13 PM PDT by JDW11235 (I think I got it now!)
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To: usual suspect

I have been eating large amounts of cheese my whole life and used to eat a pound in a sitting sometimes. I also eat very few vegetables. Mostly meat, cheese, and Pepsi. Been told I was going to die before I was 35 most of my life.

I’m 49 and if I drop dead tomorrow, I’m sure they will claim I died young because of my diet, even though I do not have diabetes, high blood pressure or chloresterol.


86 posted on 03/22/2011 9:37:08 PM PDT by packrat35 (America is rapidly becoming a police state that East Germany could be proud of!)
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To: tioga

If the kid wa sallergic to cotton would everyone need a new polyester wardrobe?

Compassion should be at work here, but it’s hard to find compassion for someone who would think it’s OK to demand (not ask, demand) this treatment. I’m sorry. Peanuts are just too common. The kid need a special school or a home school.


87 posted on 03/22/2011 9:39:53 PM PDT by Gil4 (Sometimes it's not low self-esteem - it's just accurate self-assessment.)
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To: mountn man
What are they going to do if they discover they have a sniffing dog allergic to peanuts?

Better yet, what if they discover a student who has a religious allergy to dogs. That would really send the liberals into a state of apoplexia...

88 posted on 03/22/2011 9:40:53 PM PDT by csense
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To: pandoraou812

It isn’t my job to police the world of peanuts for anyone’s kids but mine. Want to insure a peanut-free world for your kids, keep them at home.

I do and would resent any attempt for anyone to tell my kids what they can and can’t eat because of another kid’s problem. For too damn long, people have been making their problems OUR problems to society’s determent.

Just like welfare Moms, I say raise your own kids and leave me out of it. It takes a village indeed!


89 posted on 03/22/2011 9:41:23 PM PDT by packrat35 (America is rapidly becoming a police state that East Germany could be proud of!)
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To: Don W

The smell of turnip greens cooking make me projectile vomit almost as soon as I smell it, Fortunately, my wife doesn’t cook any. Have to move out of my apartment with roommate once for a week for the smell to go away.

I had told him and he agreed NOT to cook any BEFORE I agreed to be his roommate. One week later, I came home from work and Burrrraaapp! Told him if it happened again, he would be on his own.

Fortunately, I can still eat bacon.


90 posted on 03/22/2011 9:46:56 PM PDT by packrat35 (America is rapidly becoming a police state that East Germany could be proud of!)
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To: leaning conservative

Do you think parents will sue if this little F’er actually hurts someone and the other parents find out the school ALLOWED him to run wild for each and every day? One does wonder!


91 posted on 03/22/2011 9:52:46 PM PDT by packrat35 (America is rapidly becoming a police state that East Germany could be proud of!)
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To: kalee

The mere fact that schools have time to go through the lunches of students to police for sugar just proves my tagline!


92 posted on 03/22/2011 9:56:30 PM PDT by packrat35 (America is rapidly becoming a police state that East Germany could be proud of!)
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To: metmom

If they REALLY cared for her, then she wouldn’t be in public school with all the other kids. There is absolutely NO WAY you can guarantee a peanut-free school for all traces.

If they are that sensitive, a kid eating a peanut cracker BEFORE school could touch little PRECIOUS and then what!


93 posted on 03/22/2011 9:59:36 PM PDT by packrat35 (America is rapidly becoming a police state that East Germany could be proud of!)
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To: wintertime

Glad to see common sense on this subject.


94 posted on 03/22/2011 10:02:41 PM PDT by packrat35 (America is rapidly becoming a police state that East Germany could be proud of!)
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To: packrat35

Turnip greens are NAAAASTY to begin with.

Who on God’s green earth would want to eat them?

All they’re fit for is the compost heap.


95 posted on 03/22/2011 10:05:04 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom

Beats me, I have a basic rule about food. If its green, I’m not eating it.


96 posted on 03/22/2011 10:07:18 PM PDT by packrat35 (America is rapidly becoming a police state that East Germany could be proud of!)
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To: packrat35

That’s exactly the problem.

Traces of peanuts can be on the kid’s hands, face, clothes, books, or anything else the child touches.

What are they going to do? Prohibit peanuts form the homes of these children as well?

And what about the kid who thinks it’d be a cool practical joke to expose the girl to peanuts, just to see what happens?

Or the kid who tries it because they don’t really believe that the girl could react so bad and they want to see for themselves, just out of curiosity? Children do not have a real good concept of how life threatening something like that can be. Yeah, they’d know that it could make the girl have a *reaction*, but don’t really comprehend what that reaction would be and how easily it could kill her.


97 posted on 03/22/2011 10:09:59 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: packrat35

Heck, there are even adults who don’t believe how serious allergies can be.


98 posted on 03/22/2011 10:10:47 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: freedumb2003

“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?”

Could seriously be the huge number of vaccines given to newborns now.

http://journeytocrunchville.wordpress.com/2008/04/08/is-there-a-connection-between-vaccines-and-food-allergies/


99 posted on 03/22/2011 10:14:47 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: packrat35
It isn't my job either however I do have compassion & I do care about children. I did my job as a class mother to insure that a child was kept safe, & would do it for your child or anyone else’s. What bothers me is that people are ignorant & have no compassion. Not everyone can home school. I am lucky to be a mother who can.
100 posted on 03/22/2011 10:23:35 PM PDT by pandoraou812 (You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.)
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