I'd go with the ban, the allergy is sensitive and fatal. I'm sure there are many many things that are just as cheap and out-of-a-jar-easy as a PB&J (my local grocery store stocks many many things that come in a jar and can be put on bread with a swipe of the knife, many are cheap).
I think any child of mine (LOL) who refused to eat anything other than Food X would be in for a very stern talking to indeed. Refusing to eat Food Y That Makes You Ill - sure, absolutely, don't eat that; or refusing to eat Food Z because you think it's unethical - sure. But picky for the sake of picky is not something I'd put up with.
Even though none of the schools I attended banned peanuts I'm not sure I ever in my whole time of taking packed lunches (about 12 years) had peanuts or peanut butter (maybe sometimes things that had stealth peanuts in though); this is not the sort of thing that scars a child for life.
This. Seriously, it can't be that difficult to find some cheap shit for your kid to eat if you're that constrained by time and money; if it's for any other reason, it's plain laziness, as far as I can currently see. And another kid's life is not worth another person's laziness.
I'd be more for the parents having to ship their child off to a school that already has a peanut ban, or if there's one in the area, they should probably go that-a-way.
I wouldn't try to get a ban put in place, I'd try to find somewhere that was already accommodating to my kid's needs.
As a kid who had a 45 minute bus-ride anyway, I don't see a problem.
I don't know what kind of proper solution exists for severe allergies...you're kind of screwed even if your school doesn't let people bring the offending item in at lunch. How do people with such a hardcore allergy to a food item deal with the rest of life? I can see making school easier being a good thing...I can also see the school becoming a falsely safe environment. Since nature decided to curse me, I'm severely allergic to tobacco and I live in a place that is totally backwards when it comes to smoking...so I know the feeling of having your life run by an allergy. It's totally great being the douchebag in the group that has to shoot down the suggestion of where to go or just go home while everybody else does normal stuff.
I so totally agree with this. These kids (and their parents) are going to have to figure out a way to get through life with these allergies. Businesses aren't going to ban nuts and other things because one person who comes into the business might have an allergy.
Working to get peanuts and peanut-products banned from schools IS a way to deal with/get through life with these allergies though. Getting through life doesn't just refer to putting up with X thing -- it can also mean trying to get X thing changed.
Ok wow, old thread. But anyway...That's not quite accurate, unfortunately. In the real world these kids will someday work in businesses where peanuts AREN'T banned. And they need to figure out how to live in a world with peanuts. (God I can't even believe I had to say that..."a world with peanuts"...lol)
Frankly, I don't think schools should ban nut products because some kids have allergies or might have allergies. No one banned flower sales or kept lilacs off the school grounds for ME and I'm dangerously allergic to lilacs.
I'm torn, and I am very severely allergic to peanuts and peanut products. I've had one run-in with the light at the end of the peanut tunnel, and I was an adult then (accidentally ingested a sliver, spit it out, then ended up a puffer fish version of myself in the ER shot full of prednisone and other fun things while I passed out). It can happen even to those of us who are always on guard
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Truth is, I do hate the whole, "it's not good for me, so no one can have it" mentality, because it's a perfectly normal part of lunch for everyone else in the world, and I get that.
Not to mention that a lot of 'free-from' stuff tends to be made of one allergen or another anyway - lactose-free stuff generally subs in soya, and soya/nut-free stuff tends to be full of wheat, and so on and so forth. You can't really make completely allergen-free food, except by saying 'this allergens count, the rest don't' - which seems to be what's trying to happen currently, with nuts being the allergen popularly concieved as being really especially bad.
Which, most nut alergies seem to be worst than wheat allergies, so that's some truth. But the other comments on this post already show that nuts aren't the only thing that kill people quickly.
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I think any child of mine (LOL) who refused to eat anything other than Food X would be in for a very stern talking to indeed. Refusing to eat Food Y That Makes You Ill - sure, absolutely, don't eat that; or refusing to eat Food Z because you think it's unethical - sure. But picky for the sake of picky is not something I'd put up with.
Even though none of the schools I attended banned peanuts I'm not sure I ever in my whole time of taking packed lunches (about 12 years) had peanuts or peanut butter (maybe sometimes things that had stealth peanuts in though); this is not the sort of thing that scars a child for life.
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If it were a life threatening allergy I would ask for a ban.
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I'd be more for the parents having to ship their child off to a school that already has a peanut ban, or if there's one in the area, they should probably go that-a-way.
I wouldn't try to get a ban put in place, I'd try to find somewhere that was already accommodating to my kid's needs.
As a kid who had a 45 minute bus-ride anyway, I don't see a problem.
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Frankly, I don't think schools should ban nut products because some kids have allergies or might have allergies. No one banned flower sales or kept lilacs off the school grounds for ME and I'm dangerously allergic to lilacs.
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Not to mention that a lot of 'free-from' stuff tends to be made of one allergen or another anyway - lactose-free stuff generally subs in soya, and soya/nut-free stuff tends to be full of wheat, and so on and so forth. You can't really make completely allergen-free food, except by saying 'this allergens count, the rest don't' - which seems to be what's trying to happen currently, with nuts being the allergen popularly concieved as being really especially bad.
Which, most nut alergies seem to be worst than wheat allergies, so that's some truth. But the other comments on this post already show that nuts aren't the only thing that kill people quickly.
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