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If it were my child, I’d keep him/her home. I’M NOT SAYING THAT’S WHAT THEY SHOULD DO, but it’s what I would do. So many people do not understand the gravity of this situation. I don’t know what it is specifically about a peanut allergy that makes it so dire.
My kids frequently ate peanut butter on toast for breakfast; their favorite breakfast cereal was Reese’s peanut butter puffs. Their favorite cookies are peanut butter. If they had gone to school and touched something with peanut butter left on their hand, just a minute trace, and someone with this life threatening allergy touched it after them… it could literally kill them. Prior to that special, a situation like that being dangerous wouldn’t have occurred to me.
I’m curious as to what the schools do now. I know in this state, if it is a closed campus, they have to give the kids something for lunch. Here, for those kids that didn’t have lunch money it was a peanut butter sandwich and milk. They chose peanut butter because it was cheap, quick and nutritious.
Do they notify you that there is a student in the school that has this allergy so that you know that even eating a peanut butter sandwich on the way to school can endanger that child? Isn’t that a violation of their privacy?
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I've been married for 24 years and have four wonderful children.
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