peanut butter at daycare

owlet3 · September 2014

MarlaSinger& said:

Grass allergy inducing asthma works exactly like leaf mold/tree pollen inducing asthma. An attack can happen by simply being outside. I'm sure you know that, though. This is still a ridiculous straw man argument that doesn't relate to peanut allergies at daycare. That's my point. Environmental allergies that are not easily avoidable is not the same, in terms of accommodating, as an easily avoidable known food allergy.

Fair enough. I am on board with your thoughts on this. But anecdote warning... Oddly My periodic discussion with school was on bringing in hay, but my kids PB was NBD as long as he didn't eat it. So I did take it very personal that you exaggerated a very serious issue for the rare few, but you were directing this at someone else's anecdote and I let my personal passion for this get in the way. I know we agree When a parent comes to the school and says it is a serious issue the school needs to react and have a game plan. I hope OP gets the school to open their eyes on this. Marla - thanks for the dialogue.

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owlet3 said:

MarlaSinger& said:

Grass allergy inducing asthma works exactly like leaf mold/tree pollen inducing asthma. An attack can happen by simply being outside. I'm sure you know that, though. This is still a ridiculous straw man argument that doesn't relate to peanut allergies at daycare. That's my point. Environmental allergies that are not easily avoidable is not the same, in terms of accommodating, as an easily avoidable known food allergy.

Fair enough. I am on board with your thoughts on this. But anecdote warning... Oddly My periodic discussion with school was on bringing in hay, but my kids PB was NBD as long as he didn't eat it. So I did take it very personal that you exaggerated a very serious issue for the rare few, but you were directing this at someone else's anecdote and I let my personal passion for this get in the way. I know we agree When a parent comes to the school and says it is a serious issue the school needs to react and have a game plan. I hope OP gets the school to open their eyes on this. Marla - thanks for the dialogue.

Hug it out.

I get it. I take some issues personally and react as such as well. We all do from time to time. I do enjoy we can dialogue and netbattle here but leave it all on the playing field, if you will.

MommyAtty · September 2014

b0710 said:

I just wanted to add that from a school perspective (I'm a high school teacher), this is something we all have to be more aware. I have 2 students in different classes that have nut allergies, so my classroom is nut free (the food kind anyways, not silly kids ) all day long. Students are allowed to have nut products at lunch, and there is a special area for nut free students. It varies from classroom to classroom based on our students. I think having a dc that serves the peanut food is the biggest issue and should be addressed.

DS1's school (2nd grade) is similar except that you can't have nut foods in any classroom at all, only the lunchroom.

Serious but stupid question. (I don't yet have school-aged kids, so forgive me.). Where do students put their lunches now? In elementary school, we put them in cubbies in our classrooms. We didn't have lockers or anything. In DD's preschool, the cubbies are in the hallway just outside the classroom, but I wouldn't think that would be very secure in a big school.

litzo27 · September 2014

In our elementary school there are hooks and cubbies in the classroom to hang the coat and backpack and to put the lunchbox in.

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