O/T: Florida School Enforces Tough Peanut Allergy Regulations!
"Students at Edgewater Elementary in Florida are required to wash their hands and rinse their mouths out before entering the classroom. Teachers also must ensure that desks are continually cleaned with Clorox wipes. The school has banned all peanut products, eliminated snacks in the classroom and prevented outside food at holiday parties. And last week a peanut-sniffing dog was brought into the school."
Rather than distract teachers by having them sanitize their classrooms and making them the peanut police why not just make peanuts illegal?
Who cares about all of those employed in the peanut growing and processing industries if all of the little darlings are completely protected from the dangers of peanuts?
I understand allergies. I have them. But ......
Why not eliminate all foods that anyone might be alergic to.
Limit food products available to the world to only water and filtered meat juice.
REALLY!!!!
WTF?
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The stupid thing is that
The stupid thing is that whatever kid has this extreme of a peanut allergy is going to have a hard row to hoe, because when he enters the real world of college and then he workforce, this kind of crap won't be happening.
I sympathize with parents of
I sympathize with parents of kids who have peanut allergies. I really do. I know someone who had a girl in her class who was allergic to peanuts. The kid next to her was eating crackers and peanut butter and the allergic girl grabbed one. My friend got it away before the girl could eat it but she was freaking out about the reaction. She watched the girl closely and nothing happened. So when class was over she told the girls' mom about the incident. The girls' mom informed her that the girl is not ACTUALLY allergic to peanuts. She's allergic to another nut and the mom just said peanuts to be on the safe side. Talk about freaking out over nothing!
My daughter LOVES peanut butter and she was not allowed to bring her OWN snack (for herself only) to class if it contained peanut butter, just as a precaution. No actual allergic kids in her class.
Talk about overkill. I
Talk about overkill. I understand trying to protect if there is a known case of a student with airbourne peanut allergy (which should be verified by doctor and not just word of mouth from parent) in that specific class, but to have the entire school do this is really going overboard!
I understand there may be kids who are not even aware that they have an allergy to peanuts yet and believe me I understand the dangers of anaphylactic shock as my oldest son has been through that 3Xs, but it is also one of those, "We'll cross that bridge when we get there type of thing".
well for god's sake, we'd
well for god's sake, we'd better get all those precious darlings off of the playground! Do you have any idea what one errant bee might accomplish should it become agitated by the wrong child?!!?!?!?
Good grief. Let's all go live in little plastic bubbles. This, my friends, is clearly NUTS!
sorry, dupe.
sorry, dupe.
AND THEN... the flight
AND THEN... the flight attendant gets on the PA to tell everyone on the plane to not open their bags of peanuts! True story! The entire plane held hostage! Several flights later - - another flight attendant clarifies the company policy - - crew to be notified prior to boarding and then they withold peanuts several rows ahead and behind of the "sensitive one."
(and where tf is the epi=pen with this "responsible" parent?)
The school policy is ridiculous. Like our FL schools don't have other things to worry about = guns on campus. Jeez.
No one is going to die if
No one is going to die if they can,t have peanut butter for lunch. I am deathly allrgic to all nuts. Not only will I have an anaphalatic reaction but I will also get my period and could have miscarried my son while pregnant. That said I think this is all over kill. I go to baseball games, fly in airplanes, and my son even eats peanut btt
ST, I have a similar reaction
ST,
I have a similar reaction to oranges less the miscarriage issues.
Best regards,
The thing with peanuts or
The thing with peanuts or nuts is the oil & salt. If someone ate nuts in my office & then touched my office phone, my eyes would probably swell shut. If I were the parent of a child with a peanut allergy, which thank God I am not ( my son has been tested as both my mom & I are allergic) I would worry more about bullies at school trying to cause a child to have a reaction.
As far as the rinsing out their mouths, unless your planning on french kissing the class that is crazy.
Rags, if you like THAT...wait
Rags, if you like THAT...wait until you hear THIS!!
One of the women in my neighborhood WORKS for the school district as PEANUT PATROL!!! LOL!!! That's actually my "nickname" for her position (I think it's called Foodborne Allergy Teacher's Aide or something).
She's not any kind of nurse or doctor or medical professional - just a SAHM who wanted to get out of the house a few hours/day during the week to make some spending cash, but could only work during school hours so she could care for her kids before & after school (mind you, I think she drives all 3 kids to & from school when they can all easily just take the bus! but I digress...).
She works about 3 hours/day and she walks around the elementary school cafeteria making sure that the kids that are allergic to peanuts don't go near peanuts!! Or other kids with peanuts/peanut butter, I guess!!! And vice versa.
Sigh......
Yep, my tax dollars hard at work.
Meanwhile, students are failing classes (including my own fskids - lol!) and are just being "pushed through" to the next grade!
If I had any say in this, I'd take these "peanut patrol" teachers assistants and move them to a more EDUCATIONALLY PRODUCTIVE position, conducive to helping students LEARN. Hell, I'd rather she stand at the doorway of a class and if a child is lazy and hasn't done his/her homework last night, have her call the parents and be in charge of SENDING THEM HOME until they come to school ready & willing to CONTRIBUTE to the class actually LEARNING something! She can be the "detention" teacher making these students write sentences over & over again like "I WILL COMPLETE ALL HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS AND BE PREPARED TO LEARN IN CLASS AND NOT WASTE MY TEACHERS TIME" - until that kids parents can come pick them up.
OK, a little extreme, I know. Just sayin'......
P.S. I make fun of my neighbor in good spirits when we get together & call her "Peanut Patrol" lady. She laughs and says, well it's my job, so I take it seriously but I know, I know... She's a good friend & she knows we just say that to joke around by giving her a hard time. She gets PAID TO DO THIS!!!!