peanut allergies in schools

[Momagain1]

its not just fox news...google it...it was in I think tampa?? some FL city newstation

 

[FireTigeris]

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Well the name of the school/dates are there- so now a more specific search can be preformed is desired.

http://www.clickorlando.com/education/27139755/detail.html

google: Edgewater Elementary peanut

I got lots of hits, did a broad search the first time.

 

[WriterofWords]

Breathing on them wouldn't hurt them, physical contact would. It's hard to deal with all of these issues in a large school, I get blamed if someone eats or drinks, or touches, something they aren't supposed to even if they aren't in my room at the time. You make sure the teacher, school, school nurse, cafeteria, etc. are aware of issues, you send your own food with strict instructions given to your child (because the teacher cannot give up all of their own time to watch only your child) not to touch any other food or snack offered to or given to them by anyone else. Period. If your child doesn't follow the rules and ends up sick or in the hospital, blame your child not the school unless a staff member at the school purposely gave them whatever it was. If anyone (adult) at all did that on purpose, sue the Hades out of them.

 

[sune42]

http://foodallergies.about.com/od/nutallergies/f/smellingpeanuts.htm



I think that if the school has banned peanut products from their cafeteria, banned snacks in classrooms and banned outside snacks they have done enough.

 

[FireTigeris]

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True but some of these heathens are really evil and smart- if the kid is scared of peanuts- and then again I've been bitten twice and my other inter was bitten once- and I've separated, (with the teacher) students biting students-

PS- that's the only one that got that kid expelled- He has to go to a 'more appropriate learning environment now'

 

[Momagain1]

some kids are evil; I think its more when the upper grades come into play:

example:

like i said before my DD had really bad allergies...well one week they had been saving up the chalk dust that fell on the li'l lip to hold the chalk/eraser...they kept it..had a nice handful or two and blew it in her face as
she was runnign in PE and she couldnt breathe...she ended up in the ER...

One time it was the teachers issue...they didnt tell us they'd be painting IN their classroom...my DD was 7 at the time; she said to the teacher she felt sick and couldnt breath, she needed to go to nurse; the teacher said no and made her stay there. She ended up in the Intermediate Care unit for 5 days....

ppl are just really mean about allergies...its almost punishm ent to the kid who has allergies...adults/kids alike...

btw-- she is still really alllergic to cig. smoke but has grown out of most of the other ones..
I still cant do cig. smoke, cats/dogs and most fur bearing animals...

now we can do a poodle; they have hair and not fur...go figure...we did tons of research..

 

[WriterofWords]

Ok,, here is my side in this,, I am allergic to walnuts, coconut, shell fish, and most perfumes to include the heavily scented deodorants and aftershaves,, those make it very hard for me to breath. The food allergies are easy, I know what I can and can't eat and no ingredient list, I don't even try it. Now the perfume part gets interesting in a classroom full of 6th graders. I send a note home and also during my first parent meeting I address it and ask them not to send their kids to school wearing heavily scented sprays, perfumes etc. Most parents are great, but then I get the one who hates all teachers and thinks this is their opportunity to make one miserable for the whole year. The first time the kid does their work in the office or library, the 2nd time they call home to be picked up to shower and return, the 3rd time their desk goes outside my portable door and that is where they work. Yes I knew I had allergies before I became a teacher, yes you knew your kid had allergies before you sent them to school. If I can go out of my way to accommodate all 20 something kids in my class, you can accommodate your child's 1 teacher.

 

[mamagardener]

If my kid was so allergic to peanuts that just smelling it on someones breath could kill them, I think I would just keep that kid home.

Also some people really can only afford peanut butter and not qualify for free or reduced lunches. I know I work in a school cafeteria. My own kids don't even eat school lunch because they are not nutritous at all. The children at my school who have allergies have their own table where they are allowed to sit with a friend as long as the friends lunch is safe. My school does not serve any peanut products but peanuts are allowed. The children with allergies are partly responsible for keeping themselves safe.

As a person who works in a school of six hundred children with only 5 having allergies, I am of the opinion that changing the whole school to accomadate them would be ridiculous. Just keep the areas where the allergic children are free of peanuts. Schools have too much to worry about now, peanut allergies, diabetes, other allergies, asthma, cystic fybrosis, and all sorts of other special neeeds. The school nurse can also only be responsible for so much. Our school nurse is overworked, and always busy with all these special needs. Parents are of the opinion that their kid is a priority at all times, well your kid is one of 600, and we can only do so much! How is a teacher to be sure that a snack or lunch some kid brings is not processed in a place that also processes peanuts? So many items that you would not even think about can have trace amounts of peanuts in them. That could put a child in danger without anyone even realizing it.

 

[redhen]

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Yep! What she said..

 

[Dingleberry]

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I agree!!