[Sonny M]

I think that if your kid has peanut allergies that bad, you don't go telling the school to ban peanuts -- you homeschool your kid or get him a private tutor. Telling an entire school system / community to ban any contact with peanuts is overkill.

Or the kids dies, and you sue the school at which case, someone goes "oh well, to bad".

A mere inconvenience about one food item, isn't going to ruin a kids life, versus ending another kids life.

We're not banning pens or pencils, or food in whole, just one item that happens to cause harm to to many kids with these allergies.

[Mom MD]

see my other post. As a mom of a highly allergic kid, I don't ask for a ban. And no, I did not sue the school when they accidentally gave my first grader a peanut butter cookie in the cafeteria and he had to be airlifted to ICU and spent 2 months on steroids.

Again, its just a matter of common courtesy and cooperation. The golden rule goes a long way.

[4mycountry]

A mere inconvenience about one food item, isn't going to ruin a kids life, versus ending another kids life. We're not banning pens or pencils, or food in whole, just one item that happens to cause harm to to many kids with these allergies.

But what if the child is very sensitive to peanuts? Do you have any idea how many foods have peanuts or peanut oil in them? The list is as tall as I am! I'll say it again: homeschool the child. Make it safe for him, and easier on everyone else. I mean, come on -- this ban would have to be in place for as long as the kid is in public school. That means from about 5 to about 18. That's 13 years of everybody in every grade banning every form of peanut. That's ridiculous.