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[quote=Anonymous]Nope.  Not only not nut free, but can have some really problematic policies in place.   Like teachers will simply sit the kid with peanut butter at a different table - in the classroom, because pre-k eats in the classroom, which is a recipe for disaster.  Made all the more problematic by the refusal to keep epi-pens in the classroom.  Nope, epi-pens are on a different floor, in a locked toolbox, in a locked cabinet in the nurses office to which only the nurse has the key.  Which means several minutes under the best of circumstances if the nurse just happens to be waiting, by the phone, ready to dash that epi-pen down, and a really big problem if the nurse, say, has another kid in the office she can't leave, is on lunch break, doesn't pick up the phone, has left the office to go elsewhere, goes to the bathroom, takes a break etc.  Oh, and on field trips - nope, that epi-pen can't go with you - because, you know, usually field trips don't involve lunch so as far as the nurse (!) is concerned, zero need for an epi-pen.  And they won't train teachers because as the nurse said, do I really trust a teacher to administer it right?  (from my perspective, I'd sure hope so - not rocket science, and these are well educated...educators, I have faith that they can learn to use an epi-pen, and less faith that the nurse who should know better thinks its ok not to send the epi-pen on field trips).

ETOP but well regarded for pre-K with some demanding parents - but apparently no demanding parents with allergic kids, since no one has challenged this before.  It'll be a fun summer for us as we work on this...we're hoping some education and lots of paperwork from the doctor will smooth the way...

It's 180 degrees from the response we get at daycares, which are nut free across the board even for what kids bring in, and have the epi pen in the class, which goes where the kid goes - I don't understand how the world loses their collective minds and any and all allergy knowledge when they step into an elementary school, but the daycares working with the same ages are totally on top of this...[/quote]

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