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These kids need to be made to wear special colored shirts or bandannas on their heads or something. How is the cafeteria staff, who has to feed thousands of kids in a short span of time, supposed to remember which kid can't eat what? I'm sure there's dozens of "special needs diet" kids in every school.
The parents need to stop dumping their responsibility on the school, on neighbors and friends and family. Any child who is deathly allergic to any edible substance shouldn't be standing in line for a school lunch.
These kids need to be made to wear special colored shirts or bandannas on their heads or something. How is the cafeteria staff, who has to feed thousands of kids in a short span of time, supposed to remember which kid can't eat what? I'm sure there's dozens of "special needs diet" kids in every school.
The parents need to stop dumping their responsibility on the school, on neighbors and friends and family. Any child who is deathly allergic to any edible substance shouldn't be standing in line for a school lunch.
These kids need to be made to wear special colored shirts or bandannas on their heads or something. How is the cafeteria staff, who has to feed thousands of kids in a short span of time, supposed to remember which kid can't eat what? I'm sure there's dozens of "special needs diet" kids in every school.
The parents need to stop dumping their responsibility on the school, on neighbors and friends and family. Any child who is deathly allergic to any edible substance shouldn't be standing in line for a school lunch.
Again, older kids can shoulder a lot of the responsibility on their own because, well, they are older. I don't know of any preschool with a cafeteria. I also have never heard of any parents "dumping their responsibility" on the school.
My kids' elementary school doesn't serve any nuts. It doesn't seem to be a burden on them.
a 18 yr old teen from my church died on a church small group trip where the parents knew them and her pretty well, but she apparently didn't bring her epi pen on the trip-- one day among other food served was a tray of rice krispy treats and nobody realized they had peanut butter in and she died..
You've told this story four different times in this thread.
IMO the blame lies with the child's parents. The parents could have provided the school with an epipen. At the very least, the child should have been wearing a medical alert bracelet. Maybe the child should have been wearing a t-shirt with the food allergy in big letters on the front and listing what foods are included (dairy=milk, cheese, ice cream etc...).
I also wonder if the child at 3 years of age should have been at school rather than being cared for at home. And older children with a severe allergy can at least be taught what foods to stay away from. And in a school setting, the ratio of teachers to students is too high to keep track of all of them, let alone monitoring what they are allowed to eat.
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So why close the school? I mean, what if one of the other kiddos had offered him a bite of their cheese sandwich?
So we close the school to the detriment of the other 99% of the students.
I'm glad you brought this up, I was reticent to, because I think this daycare is probably a safe and positive environment for the kids but am kind of tired of being beaten up in this thread.
I don't know how many families this HeadStart facility serves for free daycare, but in the course of one day all those families lost their free daycare. This isn't as if a child was beaten there, or locked in a closet, or was fed rat poison, and in that case the parents would be unwilling to send their little ones back.
This school is closed because a child was given a grilled cheese sandwich to eat.
I would think this investigation could go on, while the other families served by this facility could still receive the services and go to work as usual to keep the wolves away from their door.
How many parents are now facing unemployment because the school has closed? I'd guess a lot. These are parents who are doing everything they can to keep their heads above the water - it seems those who have kids without really restrictive dietary concerns who wanted their kids to be served there should be able to continue receiving that service.
I don't know how many families this HeadStart facility serves for free daycare, but in the course of one day all those families lost their free daycare.
How many parents are now facing unemployment because the school has closed? I'd guess a lot. These are parents who are doing everything they can to keep their heads above the water - it seems those who have kids without really restrictive dietary concerns who wanted their kids to be served there should be able to continue receiving that service.
Well... again, impoverished/chronically poor people have just got to stop making babies that they can't afford to raise without having access to free daycare and other government handouts. Maybe they can look to the retired grandparents or other relatives in their family to help out with free childcare.
IMO society doesn't owe them all this free stuff just because they feel like having children.
How is the cafeteria staff, who has to feed thousands of kids in a short span of time, supposed to remember which kid can't eat what?
Yikes, do you send your kids to a preschool with thousands of kids?! I've never heard of a preschool having that many kids.
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