[pandoraou812]

Yes, they could bring peanut butter & jelly sandwiches. They just had to leave them with the lunch ladies. The only thing I was mad about was if they brought the sandwich they had a peanut pinned to their shirt & ate at a different table. If anybody needed the peanut pinned on them, the allergic child did. It was hard to say no to the mothers who wanted to send in baked goodies. They meant well but we could not take the chance of somebody being ignorant or not believing a child can actually die from using peanut oil. There were four class mothers. The boy who was allergic to peanuts mother was one, then myself & two other mothers. Those mothers spent their days making things difficult for us. We found Dunkin Donuts was suitable for the boy & asked parents to send those in on birthdays. However about this time came the reform act. That was the no sugar, soda etc in lunches. I sent my skinny daughter to school with a gingerbread cookie as a snack, the little bit of icing on it got me a call from the nurse. Best thing I ever did was take her out of that school.

[kalee]

I sent my daughter with homemade honey sweetened wholewheat banana bread with unsalted butter on it and they called me saying students were not allowed to bring cake with frosting for snack. I explained what I had sent and their response was well it looked like cake to us. sigh
Private school, public school I dealt with them both, home school was definitely best!

[AAABEST]

The only thing I was mad about was if they brought the sandwich they had a peanut pinned to their shirt & ate at a different table.

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.