[blackdog]

If I lived in that district, I'd take my kid, find a physician for hire to document that my child is allergic to most everything but peanut butter. Then I would sit back and watch the school find a solution to that one.

AFWIW, that kid is going to suffer more from intense beatings from the peanut deprived student body than from any incidental contact with peanut residue. Childhood justice among peers is absolute.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

In our family, we have a history of celiac disease. It is similar to a wheat allergy, but has much more drastic effects, it can lead to epilepsy, damage cognitive development, diabetes, and a myriad of other conditions. There is no cure, and the only remedy is to remove all gluten from the diet, which is found in wheat, oats and barley.

Try to imagine a lunchroom in an elementary school without pasta, bread, cookies, crackers, food coloring, breading, flour tortillas, granola, etc.

Should one of my children have this disease, how could I force the school to stop serving and allowing students to bring a typical American lunch to school? Aren't the other students allowed to eat lunch? Or, must they eat rice, vegetables, fruit and meat, but never the above foods I listed?

Even a very small amount of wheat flour causes damage to the lining of the intestine, which leads to chronic diarrhea, and malabsorbtion of nutrients, which then leads to other medical conditions. And in some instances just touching wheat flour causes skin irritation.

I wonder if the ACLU is currently trying to "protect" a child with celiac disease?