BTW, How did we ever get to this ripe "olde age" by eating peanut butter, riding bikes without helmets and shooting off real fireworks?
Guess this is as good a place as any to ask: Why does Mr.Peanut wear a monocle? Anybody?
Posted on 09/25/2007 7:15:42 AM PDT by Cagey
ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. -- Some young St. Johns County students are no longer allowed to bring a popular lunchtime food to school. Peanut butter has been banned.
A kindergarten student at Ocean Palms Elementary in Ponte Vedra has a peanut allergy that has forced the student's classroom to become a peanut-free zone, WJXT-TV reported.
Not all parents are happy with the changes in other students' diets and the inconvenience caused by the peanut ban.
Tracey Torres's son is 5 years old. She said one of his favorite lunchtime sandwiches is peanut butter and jelly, which is also one of Torres's favorites because it's quick, easy and nutritious.
"That's just a typical thing that a kid brings to school and it's something my son likes. It's quick and easy for me in the morning. To not be able to bring that and have to do something else is a burden on me in the morning," Torres said.
She said the peanut-free classroom has been a burden on her in the morning since his kindergarten class at Ocean Palms went peanut free because another student is allergic to peanuts.
When the peanut allergy issue first came up, school officials tried to separate kids with nuts from kids without by sitting them at a different table in school but the close scrutiny was too much work.
"Too much work … and the students weren't always able to eat lunch," said Ocean Palms Elementary Michael Parrish.
Under the new peanut ban, students area able to eat lunch but just not peanuts.
Torres said she thinks it's unfair for kids to suffer because of one student's allergy.
"The burden should be placed back on the parent of that child, and their only responsibility should be to create an awareness with the other parents and children," Torres said.
However, Parrish said awareness isn't enough when dealing with a life-threatening allergy.
The principal said the school is working on a more permanent solution. He said they would probably end up with a peanut-free table in the cafeteria and another table that allows peanuts.
Sorry much as I dislike the leftists I dealt with the parents & they had little to none empathy with the allergic child. Where as the children looked out for the allergic child & didn't mind the lunch checks etc. It had nothing to do with anything but the children being kind to another child. And I see way too many mean children then I remember when I was in school.
Not all children will do whatever an adult tell them too either. Not all are trusting in this day & age either. I've brought up 6 that would question you to death before believing & or trusting you. Its a sad day when you tell your children to question almost all adults.
I think you’re agreeing with me, but I’m not sure.
Spot on, except many of these bans are authoritarianism masquerading as compassion. As always logic and results don't enter into the picture.
Your "false sense of security" also applies to the TSA pantomime currently appearing at major airports nationwide. Nightly shows & matinees 7 days a week.
BTW, How did we ever get to this ripe "olde age" by eating peanut butter, riding bikes without helmets and shooting off real fireworks?
Guess this is as good a place as any to ask: Why does Mr.Peanut wear a monocle? Anybody?
So I guess it’s fine for this kid to move this thing to the next step, and demand that the whole country caters to his needs.
They already took away peanuts on airlines. No more peanuts at the baseball game or the circus. No restaurant can cook with peanut oil. The Texas Roadhouse has to stop serving peanuts out of huge tubs.
When he gets a job, he gets to demand that no other employee makes their child a peanut butter sandwich or brings peanut brittle to share in the lunch room. No jars with peanut M and Ms. No Christmas cookies with peanut butter. And then, he gets to sue the employer if his demands aren’t met.
Lovely.
How are they going to function as they get older? I’m talking high school and beyond. Look, if you ask for accomnodation, no problem. The vast majority of people are reasonable enough to do it. But to DEMAND it under threat of lawsuit or police firepower pisses me off and shuts me down! Maybe the child can have a separate room or table and those kids who haven’t brought any allergic items can sit with them. It might be a neat way to meet new friends. But to DEMAND a change in the other 99% is plain wrong. I won’t accept it or your premise.
Mr. Peanut is the advertising logo and mascot of Planters, an American snack-food company and division of Kraft Foods. He consists of a drawing of an anthropomorphic peanut in its shell dressed in the formal clothing of an old-fashioned gentleman: a top hat, monocle, white gloves, spats, and a cane.
Mr. Peanut is based on a drawing by a Virginia schoolboy, Antonio Gentile, an Italian-American who won a $5 prize in a 1916 contest for his "little peanut person." The mascot made its debut in 1918 in The Saturday Evening Post.
According to the company, Mr. Peanut's hat, shoes, cane, and monocle symbolize fresh taste. The gloves do not symbolize anything; Mr. Peanut simply likes them.
Since his conception, Mr. Peanut has appeared in many TV commercials as an animated cartoon character. More recent commercials have shown him computer animated in a real-world setting. His appearances are often accompanied by an elegant accented narrator, and throughout his extensive television life, Mr. Peanut has rarely spoken.
In 2006, Planters conducted an online poll to determine whether to add a bow tie, cufflinks, or a pocketwatch to Mr. Peanut. The public voted for no change.
“I can’t believe the number of posters who would rather tell the allergic child they aren’t fit to attend school, than tell their child that they will have to eat another kind of sandwich for lunch. It is very disappointing.”
If the allergic reaction is as easy to induce as you state and the only remedy is the one you propose, then it follows that all peanut products need to be banned everywhere.
What these really seems like is that some don’t want to tell some kids that they can’t have something that other kids can. Rather than that, they tell all kids that they can’t have it.
This reminds me of the school banning shirts with flags. Seems some students used certain Latin American flags as gang symbols. The school reaction was to ban all flag shirts. Same exact logic. If we have to ban something for some, then we have to ban it for all.
"This is Germany. Although I do appreciate your sense of humor."
I know which table the administration will be sitting at.
When my 2nd kid was born there was a room in the new baby ward of the hospital with a big sign, hand drawn, on the door that said NO LATEX.
I was glad to see the folks had finally figured out how that little baby got started but thought they shouldn’t want to tell the world about it ;-)
i need a peanut butter cologne,
so that i can offend liberals
wherever i go!
” Because they love school and can’t these kids eat peanut butter for breakfast or after school or can’t they just wash their hands b4 they spread it all over the place”
OK. As long as you are willing to take the risk, that’s fine. But it’s not realistic for you to demand everyone else bend to your desires. Just send a pile of epi pens and cross your fingers.
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