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Originally Posted by ken0042
Well, according to the CBC, 11.7 per cent of children under 18 are living below the low-income cut-off line.
So a significant number; at least more significant than the numbers that have been thrown around for nut allergies. Never mind those who are trying to save money, or those who may be vegitarians.
It's not like I'm saying the allergic kids should be put at risk, I'm just questioning if banning peanuts is the best course of action. If they had separate lunch rooms, the risk would be reduced significantly. |
What about the poor kids who are alergic to peanuts? Peanut allergies don't choose people based on thier parents tax bracket. It's convient for sone people and thats great, but it's life and death for others. They don't get the luxury to choose peanuts as an option.
Seperate rooms don't really offer anything to the picture. The kids already know they can't share lunches, and the cross contamination risk is excatly the same. If seperate rooms offered any benifit, I'd support it over the alternative but it just doesn't.
Nut allergys never end for the kids with the deathly allergies, but at some point, like everything else that have to take thier own responsibilty. I think that by the end of elementry school, a nut allergy child has to be ready to face that without the support of school administration. Once kids get to that age, parents of the non allergy kids don't have as much control over what gets eaten, and the non allergy kids aren't can't be expected to make the same choices thier "wiser" parents would have made. I don't think the ban should be lifted out right, but I think by that age a child with a peanut allergy has to be prepared. I don't think making elementry school a nut free zone for the children as the learn is too much to ask.