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Originally posted by James1982
How hilarious....
What is the purpose behind this silly rule?
If a child is too stupid to get the hint, then maybe it's just survival of the fittest at work.
Originally posted by Ghost375
What the heck, guys? People need to leave the poor PB&J alone. I put this in social issues because I feel it is one. It's another perfect example of the extremely poor condition our schools are in right now. The administration spends time on so many things they don't have time to do what we hired them for, to EDUCATE our children!
Did you really just try to blame Obama for this?
Sorry, but schools also have the important duty of protecting our children.....
and peanut allergies are extremely severe. If peanuts get on anything, and the allergic kid touches it, they can breakout and possibly die.
Peanut allergies are sometimes so bad, that the person doesn't actually have to eat the peanut to have a reaction.
Originally posted by buddhasystem
Ironically, I was about to congratulate everyone on an Obama-free thread, and now I see this...
Sheesh.
My toilet paper is bad, Obama is at fault.
Wait, why does Obama want to regulate my toilet paper?
Originally posted by noonebutme
Originally posted by James1982
How hilarious....
Really? Have you met someone with a severe peanut allergy before? Doubt they'd find it "hilarious"...
What is the purpose behind this silly rule?
To help stop children with severe peanut allergies from dying...
If a child is too stupid to get the hint, then maybe it's just survival of the fittest at work.
You're a f-ing moron for that comment. And you obviously a) don't have children and b) have no idea how children behave
You're entire post shows how ignorant of the facts you are and you're either trolling (which, well done, I'm pulled) or you truly are that stupid and have no idea how bad a peanut allergy is.
MY oldest has a peanut allergy. A severe one. She cannot be in the same room as peanuts. She didnt ask for this, we didnt want her to have it, we did nothing different - she simply has it. She has to carry an EpiPen around with her all the time and the school has one as well in case of emergency.
So far we've been very lucky. Thankfully she has never had to deal with the ignorance of someone like you.
Originally posted by Hefficide
reply to post by kaylaluv
I'd honestly have to research that ( people bringing peanuts onto planes ). I am not sure about the answer. Unfortunately I had a death in my family yesterday and am being pulled in several different directions today involving wakes, viewings, and funeral arrangements... So I may not get to doing this research for a day or three. My apologies. But I will return with an answer at some point.
~Heff
Originally posted by Missing Blue Sky
reply to post by James1982
There is nothing hilarious, flippant or novel about food allergies. My daughter was allergic to soy, peanuts, tree nuts, melons and it was life threatening.
She went to a large school built one hundred years ago and they ate lunch in the classrooms. I had to go once a month and scrub the desks books and fixtures---alone and single handedly. Bringing peanut butter to school is dangerous because the oils do not wash off easily. They are residual and this is very dangerous to someone with an allergy.
Grow up- it is just as easy to send a cheese, turkey or bologna sandwich as it is peanut butter. But those won't KILL someone.
Originally posted by Hefficide
reply to post by thisguyrighthere
FTR: I don't agree with overhanded legislation. And many rules now present in public schools are laughable. I am merely advocating for a rule I feel is rational. If we can, as citizens, work out which rules make sense and which are too overbearing in scope, then we can use our voices in voting and PTA meetings to try and find a more even keeled approach to how schools operate.
~Heff
Originally posted by MDDoxs
reply to post by kaylaluv
I am pleasantly surprised how long this debate has continued but i would like to boil it down to a yes or no question posed to you.
Is your child rights to have a Peanut butter sandwich at school more important then the lives and and welfare of other students who need to go to the same school?
If you answer no, then you understand where i am coming from, if you answer yes well, thats for another thread to debate...
this whole Allergy issue blows me away. I'm in my mid-40's. I cannot, for the life of me, remember 1 single kid in school who was either a) allergic to nuts, b) had asthma or c) was austistic/ADHD What the hell did we do to our society these last 30 years that makes this happen?
Depriving the developing immune system of naturally occurring infections in childhood may cause the immune system to eventually attack itself, which is what happens in autoimmune diseases like asthma and diabetes.
Although a small amount of peanut protein can set off a severe reaction, it is rare that people get an allergic reaction just from breathing in small particles of nuts or peanuts. Most foods with peanuts in them don't allow enough of the protein to escape into the air to cause a reaction. And just the smell of foods containing peanuts won't produce a reaction because the scent does not contain the protein. In the few cases when people do react to airborne particles, it's usually in an enclosed area (like a restaurant or bar) where lots of peanuts are being cracked from their shells.
Originally posted by BASSPLYR
I just don't understand where all of these allergies are sudden;y popping up. Did 1,000,000 years of our human evolution change in 20 years where suddenly half our natural diet we are allergic to. I say half of these allergies are BS. How many other animals have legit allergies to the food they have evolved to eat. or is it just humans. Or just humans living in first world nations.
link
Scientists have developed a new more accurate test for peanut allergy after finding that eight out of ten children who previously tested positive were not in fact allergic to the nut.
Originally posted by nerbot
Originally posted by CoherentlyConfused
I'm not sure how one child eating a peanut butter sandwich will have any effect on a child who's allergic to peanuts unless part of that sandwich gets in the mouth of the kid with allergies.
Projectile vomit could be lethal to an allergy sufferer. Yuk!