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Originally Posted by metal_geek
Trust me... every kid who has a dealthly peanut allergy knows it. They know not to trade lunch, they know what the can and can't eat, they know if they don't know if it's safe, it's not.
All banning nuts from school does, is prevent cross contamination and accidental ingestion while the kid gets older and understands how to live with it.
Prevents things like picking up the wrong "granola bar" of the table, or teacher handing the kid the wrong sandwich. Prevents a heap of peanutbutter on the doorknob, or a peanuty high five... It just lowers the chance of the "death part" of leaning at school..
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I agree it can reduce the cross-contamination issue but I would ask what a teacher is doing handing out the sandwichs or the kid picking up the random granola bar off the table. As well as you will get the jerk parent who refuese compliance. I just don't see the benefits in artificial security.
On a curious note (I am not trying to make light of the situation) Is there anywhere with information on how many peanut related deaths/near deaths there are each year and if that has changed over the course of implementing the peanut free movement. If it can be shown to be reducing deaths I would be in favour of it but it seems like a knee-jerk attempt to avoid litagation likely based on a very large US settlement somewhere.