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Originally Posted by llama64

In order to afford kids, a house and two cars (fairly standard family situation), both parents usually have to work. This leaves the parents in the situation of trying to figure out the best care for their kids while they are out side their own care. Past the age of 5-6, this is usually the school system.

The school system is already over-strained trying to do it's primary function of educating the kids, let alone look after every child's unique needs.

How are the parents of a child with a severe allergy supposed to deal with this situation? Should they just accept that the local school bully will simply try to smear peanut butter all over their kids face and hopefully they won't die as a result? Keep in mind, a child in elementary cannot be counted on to take care of them selves.

An all out ban is pretty much the only thing that can be enforced right now. Yeah, it sucks to inconvenience other people, but what else are these parents supposed to do?

I really don’t think parents are that helpless when the kids are in school. And last I checked schools do a pretty good job of look after children’s unique needs. The parents should be teaching their kids at a young age how to manage their allergy. Schools should educating class rooms about the dangers of peanut and other allergies. If child’s allergy is so bad than they should be eating lunch in another room. Where peanuts are banned. If the allergy is common enough to consider banning peanuts from schools than they would surely have some company. Also making sure no one eats during class for the safety of the kid, I think this is a reasonable request.

I’m all for some precautions, marking products to say if they contains peanuts or not. But the extent that people are going to ridiculous. A couple of years ago my younger brother was in Elementary and I offered him some of my peanut butter toast. He had to refuse because he wasn’t allowed to eat any peanut products for breakfast in his own home. Now that too me is just ridiculous.

Originally Posted by Boblobla

What is your allergy?

I’m allergic to cold temperatures. Essentially if anything is below 5 degrees (water, outside) than I have a pretty serious allergic reaction. I start breaking out in hives and my blood pressure starts decreasing rapidly. The winter is pretty bad, if I’m exposed to freezing temperatures for more than 5-10 minutes (depending on how cold it is) I have trouble breathing and become very light headed.

However like I mentioned before it’s my responsibility to make sure that I won’t be put into a situation where I can have a serious reaction. I constantly carry heavy jackets, tuks, mitts, whatever I need so that I don’t put myself in danger. If a child had my condition would it be right to ban the rest of the school from going outside for recess in the winter? I don’t think so. Would it be right to ban felid trips to places where you cold temperatures are present? Nope.

Originally Posted by metal_geek

I can see your point but you do sound a little bitter that you have the same concequences as peanut allergy people and none of the public supports.
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You realize the premise of my post was that I don’t want others support and that it’s my responsibility to take care of myself right?