About 10,000 children are hospitalized annually with traumatic brain injuries from sports, 2,000 children drown each year, and about 1,300 die in gun accidents.
If I thought my child would die from peanut butter, I wouldn’t send them to school. The risk is too great. Since the schools are full of kids with Sudden Peanut Death Syndrome, I can only conclude that the death of the child just isn’t a big deal to the parents. Or that the peanut thing just isn’t that big a problem.
About 10,000 children are hospitalized annually with traumatic brain injuries from sports, 2,000 children drown each year, and about 1,300 die in gun accidents.
The number of kids age 1-14 that are killed annually in gun accidents (2008 most recent data) is 62, not 1300. You are off by a factor of 21.
Drowning is 704
“Struck by/against” is 78, and is the only category that would include sports-caused fatalities.
http://webappa.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/leadcaus10_us.html
>>If I thought my child would die from peanut butter, I wouldn’t send them to school<<
Oh Holy Lord, thank You for blessing us with the Voice of Reason on this thread!
I got into a tiff with a FREEPER (of all people) who told me her grandkid would die within seconds from the smell of peanuts. Therefore all peanut products should be banned in schools.
I said, “Why in the world would that mother take such a risk with the life of her child?!? That is neglect. Keep the kid at home. Homeschool.”
She was taken aback and told me I was cruel.