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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is nobody banning food from all public places it’s a safety issue in small intimate settings like…school. Don’t be a jerk. Consider other people maybe? You can survive without peanuts at school. The kids with allergies cannot say the reverse. Cost/benefit.[/quote]

Did you read the thread? It's not just peanuts. What people are saying is that they were fine avoiding peanuts and then they were also told they had to avoid common replacements for nuts, like soy and sunflower seeds/oil. And that some places ban all Big 8 allergens which includes wheat, dairy, and eggs (I assume few people are burdened by not being able to send shell fish to school).

Plus it turns out that peanut allergies are not even the most common or severe allergy, so the places that still only ban peanuts/tree nuts are odd because why would you ban that but not milk, which is about equal to tree nuts in terms of occurrence and severity.

Also, some schools are small and intimate, but some schools serve thousands of students. I get banning peanuts in a preschool or daycare setting where the kids are just in a few rooms, at the age where they are going to touch each other and may attempt to share food despite best efforts, and etc. But banning peanuts in an elementary or middle school with 500-800 kids? When you could more easily just institute some rules that would be pretty easy to follow (no eating food from home anywhere but the lunch room, kids with allergies are provided with tables that you can only sit at with allergen-free food). Plus reminding kids to wash hands after eating.[/quote]

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