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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Thanks!
As far as I know, the only copper washed steel pills were BBs.
Well, I stand corrected!
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When you need an Epi-Pen injection, you don’t have that kind of time.
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.
I'm sure once there is one, we'll have a hundred more faking it to collect disability.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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!
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.
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!
The mere fact that schools have time to go through the lunches of students to police for sugar just proves my tagline!
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!
Glad to see common sense on this subject.
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.
Beats me, I have a basic rule about food. If its green, I’m not eating it.
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.
Heck, there are even adults who don’t believe how serious allergies can be.
“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.
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