Posted on 01/04/2005 7:54:07 AM PST by TheBigB
YORKTOWN, Ind. — Savannah Dowling is a typical 8-year-old girl; much of her protein comes from peanut butter sandwiches.
However, if she wants to bring one to Central Indiana's Pleasant View Elementary School, she has to eat it at a special table in the cafeteria to accommodate one first grader with a severe allergy. Soon she'll have to take her lunch to an area the school is calling the "peanut gallery" so the one child with the peanut allergy isn't affected.
"I don't think everybody should have to suffer because of one kid," said Mike Raper, a critic of the idea and fiancé of Savannah's mother. "I think it's a terrible precedent. Basically, because there's nowhere to draw the line. You've got people allergic to milk, wheat. My own son's diabetic. There's just no where to draw that line."
School Superintendent Mary Ann Irwin called it "one of the most challenging" accommodations the school has made for its students.
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I wonder when in the last 20 years did our children become such rice paper panzies.
As medical science can save more and more people with various anomalies you will see an increase of all sorts of strange reactions to everyday life. People who used to die are now saved and have have children
Before I respond to you, please tell me you read my entire post.
If the child is at that much risk, why are the parents sending him to public school where instant death is possible?
Pardon me but something is amiss here. Any parent who would put that child in that kind of risk is not a very good parent.
Then even repeat themselves when they type. One "have" should be enough. "
Holy Misspelling Batman!
I meant "throat".
Some just might learn something from these special kids also.
32 posted on 01/04/2005 8:07:41 AM PST by New Perspective (Proud father of an 13 month old son with Down Syndrome)
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I IMAGINE that if this were my child, I would IMAGINE that a public school cafeteria would be a place of possible exposure, and I IMAGINE I would not put my child in said public school cafeteria. I don't IMAGINE that I would expect the whole dang world to be inconvenienced on behalf of my child.
Taking parental responsibility for my own child's well-being rather than hand it off to the Government; IMAGINE that!
Side Note: I attended this very elementary school as a fifth-grader the first year it was open (back in the early seventies) and remember the cafeteria well. Oops! Giving away my age, lol!
It would be safer to have kids bring guns to school than carry PBJ's!!
Mother killed by tomato allergyA mother of four died from a rare allergic reaction to tomatoes while making spaghetti bolognese for her children.
Raya French, 37, was opening a tin of pre-prepared mince and chopped tomatoes when she went into anaphylactic shock. She knew that she had the allergy but thought that she was affected only by the raw fruit.
Her eldest daughter, Alexandra, 15, found her collapsed on the kitchen floor at the family home in the village of Tankerton, near Whitstable, Kent. The teenager called an ambulance and Mrs French was taken to the Kent and Canterbury Hospital. She was unconscious when she arrived and died four days later after being kept on a life-support machine.
ATTENTION ALL SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS. Enact immediate national ban on all tomato products in public schools.
Exactly, it's got to be much easier to maintain a peanut-free table/area for just the allergic child. It's really that simple.
As an adult he'll need to learn to adapt, at least if he wants to enter the workplace. Might as well start now on it being a two-way street. My fiance has a mild allergy to most nuts (peanuts are one of the few he can eat safely). My mother is seriously allergic to pinenuts. Neither of them demand that their entire environment be kept nut-free, they simply are careful to avoid exposure to known allergens.
At least the school isn't banning peanut butter. It's a nutritious and inexpensive source of protein for the overwhelming majority of the population.
Yes, it has a huge amount of phytoestrogens. Feminizing boy babies, and driving girls to premature puberty. Frightening stuff.
I don't think he's over reacting. The majority of the school children have to change their diet or be relegateed to a cast-off type table over the allergy of 1 kid? That's unfair. I think it's great someone finally stands up to the dumb-ass "administration."
I understand fully the severity of peanut allergies. A kid in one of my daughters class has a peanut allergy. My daughter chose to be in the class and go peanut-free. OK, her choice, but I will not stand for any of my kids being forced into the measures necessary to accomodate %0.0125 of the school population. It's just unfair.
Put me on a diet of peanut butter sammiches and EVERYONE will be wanting to move.
Seriously, as someone that deals with the public, I can see this is one of those things where no matter what you decide to do, at least half of the parents will be mad. The trick is to try and keep the herd evenly divided.
You know, that's not for me to judge, especially since I'm not a parent myself, and it wasn't the point of my post. All I was trying to say is that it is wrong to totally dismiss these allergies out of hand as some fabrication, because they are real. Back in the 50's, there wasn't AIDS, but there is now. Years ago we had to deal with all kinds of diseases that are totally wiped out now. Things change over time. BTW, thank God my cousin is only mildly allergic to peanuts and doesn't have to worry about things like this at school. It all the other nuts that pose the problem.
How do they plan to protect this child for day-to-day living?
34 posted on 01/04/2005 8:09:41 AM PST by Sam's Army (No witty taglines currently come to mind)
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Excellent definition
What is a "sammich?"
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