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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What do we do about the tree nut bans though? Once they are in place, I feel like it's impossible to get rid of them. Our school as "We are a tree nut free facility" signs all over the building. I feel like raising the issue with the parent community is just inviting the parents who have kids who have allergies to accuse me of not caring about their kids' lives (I really do), and raising with administration will just get a no -- it's the risk averse choice for them and I bet you anything admin and teachers who want to eat tree nuts still bring them in and figure they aren't eating with the kids so it doesn't matter. So it costs them nothing.

How do we change the approach? Where does the push come from. I have a kid with dietary and nutritional issues that are made much harder by total bans on allergens. I don't want to put my kid's needs over those of others, but also... my kid does have needs that could be easily solved with a peanut butter sandwich and cup of milk, which I'm not allowed to give her at school.[/quote]

My nephew is growing up in Japan and has severe tree nut allergy. He learned from the age of 3 to ask if food had nuts in it. I don't know if my sister even bothered to tell the school because he is so careful!
Conversely my father on dialysis cannot eat salt and yet never bothers to ask about the salt content of the food he is eating...if he was a kid would it be a salt free zone? Because the real worry is that a kid will inadvertently eat something. Breathing in peanut dust is farfetched.[/quote]

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