Children with Nut Allergies & Public Schools

[LLN]

I know this won't be popular with all posters here, but it is a fact. Every minute the teacher is playing "nut police" he or she is not teaching.

I am sure you think, "but it takes only so long" but in the schools today, there are literally hundreds of these little things that come up and have to be dealt with. Don't complain about poor test scores when you want teachers doing all the non-education stuff.

I am truly sorry that you or your children have nut-allergies or any allergy or malady for that matter, but I also feel for the teachers that have to police yet another thing, in lieu of teaching.

lln

[nashwolfpacker]

I am an allergist in Raleigh and I do not think Wake County as a school system has developed a policy although, as people have mentioned before, most of the individual schools have a policy but it varies. Some of the schools have made children with food allergies sit at their own table away from their classmates and peers in fear of them having a reaction. I think this is an unnecessary precaution for food allergies and cruel for the children with food allergies to not be able to interact normally with the other kids.

There is a private school in Raleigh that says it is peanut free but in touring it for my own child I noticed that they are not peanut free. You can PM me the name if you would like. While a school may say it is peanut free I would always question that to find out if the person ordering the food or controlling the food supply is reading labels and understands what food allergy is.