Posted on 03/22/2011 6:52:11 PM PDT by Dallas59
ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) – Some public school parents in Edgewater, Florida, want a first-grade girl with life-threatening peanut allergies removed from the classroom and home-schooled, rather than deal with special rules to protect her health, a school official said.
"That was one of the suggestions that kept coming forward from parents, to have her home-schooled. But we're required by federal law to provide accommodations. That's just not even an option for us," said Nancy Wait, spokeswoman for the Volusia County School District.
Wait said the 6-year-old's peanut allergy is so severe it is considered a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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Just say NO to Federal funding and these assinine issues go away.
I personally have an allergy to pork products, and have known about it since the 4th grade. My parents and I had NO expectations that others would have to alter their lives to accomodate my allergy, I just learned to say “no thank you” to many many many offers of food. Now the smell of cooking pork nauseates me, but I am surviving quite well, thank you, though I still miss bacon!
I have a co-worker who is allergic to all members of the allium family. No onions, leeks, garlic, anything like that for him. If any of us have onion on our sandwich/in our lunch, he has to leave the room to prevent a reaction. Most of us try to avoid bringing onion but that is wholly voluntary. He has NEVER asked any of us not to bring the food, just warn him if there is some in our lunch.
I am not up on the latest electronic gadgets, but to be sure, there is something they could do electronically.....perhaps put a camera in the classroom where this kid can do her work at home on the computer yet she would still be particpating in class. Course, that would be a SIMPLE solution!
If I had a kid in that school, I would be pushing for home schooling ONE child rather than create chaos for every one else in the school.
simple human compassion should be at work here. dang, we are a fallen people.
My youngest daughter is allergic to peanuts. My three other kids are not. We have peanut butter in our house as the other kids love it. My allergic daughter will not eat something if she suspects it might have peanuts in it. No big deal, certainly not worth inconveniencing other people over it.
My DH is now 83, and he is allergic to peanuts and tree nuts. When he was a kid, he thought he was a freak as no one else had an allergy like that. He had to take care of himself — and did.
When our daughter had the same allergy, (she is now 53) she also was the only one in school that had it and again — watched out for herself.
A grandson has the same allergy, but now it is getting so common that it is almost accepted.
I’d love to understand why it has come to be so common.
The other day I saw a dog-bomb sniffing dog.
“What are they going to do if they discover they have a sniffing dog allergic to peanuts? “
The best laugh I’ve had all day.
Liberalism = sacrifice of the many to benefit the few. This is liberalism. The one child should be accomodating the others, not the other way around. If one of my kids went to that school, I’d send them to school with peanuts every day just to tick off the “authorities”. Screw them - as a taxpayer, I pay their wages.
My son had a Jehovah Witness girl in his class from kindergarten through 5th grade. No parties allowed. One child ruined holidays for the other 17. This girl was also very bright but bored and disruptive. All the other kids disliked her immensely.
In 2nd grade a very young teacher decided to make this little girl’s table mates responsible for her behavior. If this girl misbehaved they all lost recess. I had a fit. I went to see the teacher and told her she was making a BIG mistake. If this girl couldn’t or wouldn’t control herself why did the teacher think other 2nd graders could control her? Punishing them would not advance classroom cohesiveness because they already disliked her and would like her less when they were forced to share her punishment for things they did not do. (Geesh, I don’t know what they teach in education classes, but that was a no brainer to me.) I also firmly told her that my son was to have recess unless he personally misbehaved. In our family we believed in personal responsibility and he was responsible for himself not any other child nor was any other child responsible for him. I won that debate!
She knows she cannot eat several things and takes care of it herself...When an infant she had severe eczema and would rub her arms and legs until they bled to stop the itching. Thats when they had her tested for allergies, although psoriasis and eczema are also genetically caused and some do outgrow it as they age...
3 of my 5 adult children have psoriasis and its nasty to live with, one son got a special light he uses, he's skin gets raw and weeps. He didn't outgrow it and is in his 50's.
The solution is to abolish the public school systems and let the free market do the schooling. Unique schools will be set up that: 1. Allow Christmas Pageants, 2. Disallow Christmas and Easter Pageants, 3. Actually toss kids out that are drug users, 4. Throw out (legitimate) bullies, 5. Provide an environment for peanut allergies, 6. Support Kwanza, 7. Speak Esparonto, 8. Teach only English, .....
You get the idea. Where there is a need, some school will step up in the free market to meet the need.
But the kids themselves were not able to bring peanut butter sandwiches for lunch?
Good for you! I think the more parents get involved & say no to the idiots in public school the better. I had no problem with public school after dealing with them for so many years with my older children. When Sassy entered school I was a determined mother who knew how to handle things in a different way. I even went to Board of Ed meeting & spoke up all the time. I am quite sure the school was very happy to see us depart.
This been a common "disciplinary" practice in schools for decades, even in private schools. I don't think I've seen it work. Instead it seemed to inspire the troublemakers by giving them even more attention and veto power over the whole. Are they public employee union thugs in the making?
After I got them all “trained” at that school we moved and the schools where we moved were so bad, we decided to home school. Home school was the best decision we ever made, I wish I had done it form the beginning.
Are they public employee union thugs in the making?
Probably.
I teach in a primary school & we have a 2nd grade boy who is a foster child from another county. He is basically psychotic, but my district doesn’t want to pay for him to be in a lock down school, so he is free to terrorize everyone.......adults & children alike. He was so awful on the bus that he is permanently kicked off & because he is special needs we must arrange for transportation to & from school.
We have endless, pointless meetings over him; basically I am just trying to keep him from killing someone at school until the end of school.
We have lost our minds & parents will sue at the drop of a hat, so schools act absurdly. And NO MONEY or time is spent on the kids who are really smart and who will one day make a contribution to our world and country.
It’s insane & the way the laws go; there’s no way out...................I love your peanut idea, more power to you!
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