DCPS No Nut Policy - Do coconuts count?

[Anonymous]

Food allergy is no joke. My coworker's robust 4-year old son died of it suddenly. It was a shock to me because I never heard of food allergy where I grew up. Of course we can take some inconvenience when it is life and death to somebody.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Man, you learn something new every day (about the coconuts).

https://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/coconut.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My child is not medically fragile -- she is highly allergic to peanut and tree nuts but otherwise healthy. She can live a normal life as long as she avoids her allergens, and public schools are legally required to provide a free and appropriate education, which includes reasonable accommodations for her allergy. And, yes, the Department of Transportation recognizes severe food allergies as a disability.
https://www.allergicliving.com/2019/05/21/dot-decision-on-airline-food-allergy-policy-why-its-a-win-and-a-loss/

Please educate yourself before making offensive statements.

It’s not offensive. You said she has a disability. I don’t think having a disability is offensive. I wonder why you think only your kid & not others with disabilities can lead ‘normal’ lives.
A severe reaction like that IS disability & medically fragile. And saying an entire school can’t allow nuts it’s reasonable. & you’ll be the first one to bring a suit when she has a Rxn- because some idiot admin told you the school was ‘but free’.

[Anonymous]

You know, you really should see someone about your food addiction. The inability to go without access to a specific food at all times in all venues is concerning, and your profound lack of empathy is a sign of underlying psychological issues. Seriously, seek help. You may be... nuts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You know, you really should see someone about your food addiction. The inability to go without access to a specific food at all times in all venues is concerning, and your profound lack of empathy is a sign of underlying psychological issues. Seriously, seek help. You may be... nuts.

DP. I stopped weighing in on food allergy arguments a long time ago, but I have to say that there was a point when my toddler with failure to thrive and multiple food allergies (wheat, milk, fish, and egg) could eat peanut butter at daycare or pretty much nothing because they wouldn’t refrigerate lunches. They made a reasonable accommodation of allowing my DD to eat PB in a safe spot so she didn’t make any others ill. It was not terribly difficult to do. And no one made us feel ashamed about it.

While the PP you are responding to doesn’t meet your compassion standards, you don’t meet mine because you are mocking people with psychological feeding issues. While my child didn’t have those, I met many parents whose children were struggling with texture or swallowing phobias as a result of medical trauma or autism.

Shame on you really for going there. Too many other ways of chiding an insensitive (in your book) PP.