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Such as Nuts, Peanuts, Soy, Wheat, Gluten, Dairy (particularly cows milk), Fish, Shellfish, Eggs!
I have read and know that schools are now banning staples such as the above ingredients just because a minority of students are allergic to them.
This presents the fact that the majority of students who aren't affected by the allergies particularly anaphylaxis to force them to give up their staples to cater to the minority.
Another situation is that what happens to these kids outside of school hours and other place such as shopping places, public parks, etc and what happens by the time these kids leave school altogether and go to work and tertiary studies, are these places going to accommodate these people?
Yes depending on the grades, and age of children involved. When the children involved are too young to manage their own administration of medication or children are too young to understand not to eat outside of the cafeteria.
Now you are clearly exaggerating, and I would ask for proof of a ban on ALL of those items. The items typically banned are peanuts and tree nuts because they are life threatening and don't need to be injested to cause a reaction. Indeed one child eating a pb sandwich, then touching another child or surface can be enough to potentially kill someone. That is not true for gluten, wheat, dairy, or egg allergies. So I doubt your premise that those are "banned" from school lunches.
As for after school, most of the time the children will be with a parent who can monitor the situation until children are old enough to do so themselves. Keep in mind that nut allergies (the only one commonly banned) tend to diminish with age and bans are not common in high schools at all.
Ummm..... It isn't really catering when you have a child that can die within minutes just from sitting next to someone eating the stuff, such as can happen with peanuts. As far as this being a "the school is just catering to a special snowflake because they can't avoid it in the real world" issue, in America at least, the difference is that going those other places is optional, the government isn't forcing you to be there. Schools have a special duty to protect children from harm in part because they become in loco parentis. Aside from the moral obligation to protect the physical wellbeing of the child, if they endanger a child they can, and most likely will, be penalized to the tune of millions of dollars. If nothing else they owe it to the taxpayers who will foot that bill to try avoiding that type of financial liability.
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Such as Nuts, Peanuts, Soy, Wheat, Gluten, Dairy (particularly cows milk), Fish, Shellfish, Eggs!
I have read and know that schools are now banning staples such as the above ingredients just because a minority of students are allergic to them.
This presents the fact that the majority of students who aren't affected by the allergies particularly anaphylaxis to force them to give up their staples to cater to the minority.
Another situation is that what happens to these kids outside of school hours and other place such as shopping places, public parks, etc and what happens by the time these kids leave school altogether and go to work and tertiary studies, are these places going to accommodate these people?
Please comment and share your opinion?
The only ban I've ever seen is peanuts. The other things don't generally kill people with allergies to them, and it would be pretty unreasonable for everyone to be gluten-free, dairy-free, etc. I don't even know what they would eat.
The only ban I've ever seen is peanuts. The other things don't generally kill people with allergies to them, and it would be pretty unreasonable for everyone to be gluten-free, dairy-free, etc. I don't even know what they would eat.
I've only heard of nuts and that hasn't been in the whole school, only in a particular classroom or at designated tables at lunch.
Ban students with allergies from enrolling in the general population, and set up special schools to accommodate their special needs, and short busses to carry them there.
Illegal. Federally illegal.
Children with a physical disability, like a life threatening food allergy, to the a free and appropriate public education in the LEAST RESTRICTIVE (aka mainstream classroom) possible. There is no federally protected right to eat peanut butter in school.
Yes, they absolutely should ban those things. And people who think their kids can't choke down a turkey sandwich instead of peanut butter are the ones who are raising special snowflakes.
Banning? No. Limits? Yes. I have one with a tree nut allergy. She had to learn to lookout for herself and not depend on others to do that. In the younger grades, I've seen certain snacks in the classroom "banned", but nothing at lunch although there is a peanut free table.
It does make me wonder having grown up in the 50's, and eating lunch where so many kids ate peanut butter sandwiches.....why peanut butter wasn't an issue then? Does anyone know?
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