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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am over other people’s allergies.  Schools can separate kids that have extreme allergies to their own table/room. [/quote]

Agree. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. [/quote]

Wow, that seems pretty harsh. I’m willing to be inconvenienced so that a child doesn’t end up in the hospital.[/quote]

It’s more than an inconvenience to say you can’t bring several major ingredients  for your own child’s lunch. The kids with severe allergies can have their own table were they are placed with enough distance to not contaminate each other’s areas. That is reasonable.  Telling the whole school they can’t peanuts, soy, almonds, sunflower seeds, sesame, wheat, dairy, etc. for their own personal consumption in a lunch room is not reasonable. [/quote]

Correct but this is why it's easier for schools and it's also lazy to say oh you just can't bring this in but they're not checking lunches, parents are not paying attention and even you have suggestions of a sneak it in because who is actually checking the lunches. The actual evidence-based interventions are hand-washing after lunch and cleaning the tables. 
In the classroom they shouldn't share supplies and hand washing should happen after snacks it's literally that simple the problem is hand washing actually requires time and honestly from a allergy perspective and a non allergy perspective I would rather them focus on hand washing which would probably cut down on 50% of the colds and viruses that the kids exchange all the time. 
I'm in allergy groups and we have the discussion all the time with parents of kids with allergies who want the school to be nut free completely disregarding that there are seven other top allergens and the school is not going to go dairy free or egg free. So there happens to be this prioritization of allergies where people are like oh well I understand the peanut but I don't understand wheat allergies they're all top nine. So again limiting one allergy from the school quote on quote because it doesn't actually work and nobody actually pays attention to it still limits the food choices of kids who have allergies and those that don't.

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My kid had allergies to six things in elementary, none of them were top 9. And she was a picky eater. The peanut bans drove me crazy because she wasn't allergic and it was protein that she would eat. They never banned any of her allergens. The last thing she needed was another restriction. [/quote]

The PP doesn't care about your kid though. She only cares about her kid and insists we all prioritize her kid over our own kids at all times, even when the things we're doing for her kid have minimal benefit to her kid and are a major burden to us and our kids. So your kid can eat Doritos and and a dog biscuit for lunch, whatever, who cares.[/quote]

Once again let me repeat myself

You will survive if you can’t eat certain foods. My child can die if she gets exposed. The person who only cares about themselves is YOU.[/quote]

You act as if it’s so easy. My child has been underweight his whole life despite my best, best efforts to get him to eat more foods. He is 10 and weighs 55lbs. One of the FEW high calorie , protein and fat rich foods he will eat is peanut butter. Thankfully his school is reasonable and just has kids not share food and has an allergy table available that doesn’t allow nuts, and a second one that doesn’t allow dairy, since those are the 2 anaphylactic allergies present at his school. Kids with severe allergy where contact or breathing in particles will harm them, can sit there with any buddies who packed a nut or dairy free lunch. Problem solved- your kid can eat safely and so can mine. Without telling my kid he isn’t allowed to eat something because SOMEONE ELSE is allergic to it. [/quote]

Oh so YOUR child’s health issues are to be prioritized to the point of potential death of my own kid while you call me reasonable. How convenient for you.[/quote]

what?  my kid isn't even sitting near your kid as he eats lunch.  if my child was trying to shove peanut butter into your kid's mouth you might have a point, but, come on. [/quote]

Are you saying that your child will be monitored when they wash their hands and face and wipe their shirt off after lunch? Sounds good to me.
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DP. You are crazy. Or a troll. I can't decide.

If your child's food allergy is so severe that *trace* amounts of an allergen on someone's face, hands, or clothes, could kill them, then presumably you don't take yoru child to any public spaces, right? No metro, no airports, no movie theaters, etc.? Because allergens aren't banned any of those places, and no one "monitors" people who eat allergens to ensure they decontaminate after exposure.

If this is the accommodation your child needs at school, presumably you are also taking these precautions elsewhere, right? Since your kid might die?

OR, do you take your kid all kinds of places where you have absolutely no idea whether people might have trace amounts of allergens on them, or whether surfaces have been recently washed. Because it turns out your child's allergy is not actually that severe, and you just love telling other parents what to do and throwing giant fits at your kid's school to force people to bend to your will? I bet it's this.[/quote]

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