I have to side with DtC here. This kid needs to learn now that people are not going to shelter him from peanuts for the rest of his life, and how to deal with his problem. It’s unfortunate, but more than anything, the kid needs to learn this shit now. When he steps in the real world, people won’t be watching his ass, and if he doesn’t know what has peanuts and what doesn’t, he’s shit out of luck.
And emarkp, this thread title is a pretty strong accusation, considering it never happened.
I must have this for my sig. Please let me know if you object, Diogenes.
Yeah, Diognes is one of my least favorite posters, as I see him as an “message board bully” who gets off on being as inflammatory and arrogant as possible in his posts, probably because he has to keep his mouth zipped too much IRL, but I’m with him on this one.
It just seems silly to inconvienence thousands of kids for one kid’s benefit. If the allergies are life threatening and a mere whiff of the deadly peanut butter is enough to kill, perhaps that child should not be in public school.
I’d be honored. 
If there can be a high school for gay and lesbian students, why don’t parents of kids with allergies try and get cities to make schools that are for kids with nut allergies only? I guess that it is easier for them to inconvenience everybody else than be subjected to inconvenience themselves.
This is just another example of the current attitude that “everybody else is responsibe for what happens to me”. Maybe they should start a class action lawsuit against Skippy and Peter Pan for marketing a product that kills.
Gimme a break. Diogenes didn’t “threaten to kill children.” His statement about sending his kid to school every day with a PB&J was clearly hyperbole, as evidenced by the addition of “and a big bag of Reese’s Pieces for dessert!”
I happen to be kind of on the fence about this issue, but the OP smacks of the kind of hysterical attitude that makes all of us question whether the severity of some of these allergies is being trumped up to satisfy some kind of perverse need for drama.
p.s. No need to go on and on about how real and deadly your kid’s allergy is. I certainly believe that some of them are. But you know what? Not all of them are as serious as some overprotective parents make them out to be. The folks who are crying wolf are damaging your credibility.
I’ll add that “Second hand peanut butter” would make a bitchin band name.
As I think about this further…how many of these kids who are causing these huge sweeping changes in their elementary schools are going to grow up and make similar demands of their employers?
“Excuse me boss, but I have a peanut allergy. This means that nobody in the building can bring in any kind of peanut-related product since some peanut particles might get into the air system and make their way back to me.”
Do you really think they would cave to him as an adult? Why should they as children?
What about having the effected child wear a gas mask? Wouldn’t that filter the air suffciently for him or her?
I mean, the kid would be “that weird kid in the gas mask,” but at least he wouldn’t be “that fucking kid who got our Nutter Butters taken away for life”…
What about second hand latex? My daugher’s high school has banned all balloons because two kids (out of 3000) have latex allergies.
I’ve got to side with DtC too. When I lived in the UK, there was a recurring story in the Guardian about a couple whose young son had a peanut allergy, and really, really, really wanted to go to Disney World. They were petitioning British Airways to have a “special” flight on which, not only were they not to serve peanuts, but (1) no other passenger would be allowed to bring peanuts on the flight, and (2) they weren’t to be allowed to serve peanuts on that airplane for several flights beforehand!
Naturally, the Guardian treated BA’s refusal to do this as the Corporate Crime of the Century. The simple facts that (a) several other airlines fly from the UK to Florida and (b) it’s highly unlikely that airline security would be diverted from their normal duties to strip-search passengers for freaking peanuts. I agree, total overreaction.
How about “The Flying Peanut Particles” ?
Duke, now I’m having a vision of airport security, still doing scans for box cutters and toenail clippers, but also adding random peanut searches to the checklist, and making people walk through peanut detectors which beep when peanut particles are present. (The random peanut searches, to avoid accusations of racial profiling, would still focus mostly on elderly women).
Aside form the “wusses” and “Freaks” comment (for which Dio admitted was uncouth), I agree with him as well.
Just to add to the coming Apocolypse, I also agree with Diogenes, and laughed aloud when I read “HAVE YOU ALL LOST YOUR MINDS?”. I pictured the poor man on a tower of slain jars of JIF, gripping a sticky butter knife in one hand as the sun set behind him.
Jesus CHRIST people, I can only imagine what my child’s life may be like some day…no peanut treats ever, because some child may wander in, slip, fall get some crumbs on his cheek and die. No trick or treating because everyone’s out to kill you. No marbles because Gerard down the street swallowed six of them. No Christmas pageant because it’s offensive. No diakon radishes because they’re overly phallic. No metal music, no barbies, no t-shirts with funny slogans. No saying “bless you” when your friend sneezes, no jarts, no kissing the back of Scott Russi’s head in first grade because it’s sexual harrassment. No Valentine exchange parties because it’s pagan and maybe someone’s feelings will get hurt. No Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer Christmas Special because there aren’t any ‘ethnic characters’.
Just put on this bubblewrap uniform and learn how to code while drinking cans of Ensure.
Thank god I grew up in the dangerous, fun seventies.
Hehe…you’re old, jarbabyj. 
Agree with DtC.
Those have already fallen by the wayside, at least in public schools around here. Now they have achingly politically correct “Winter Concerts” in January in which they sing (or play) songs about snow, winter light, and flying geese. :rolleyes:
No more Santa, Winter Wonderland, or elves.
God forbid (pun intended) they sing about Jesus.
Amen, sister!
I also agree with Diogenes.
It never fails to amaze me how consideration for others has totally fallen to the side.
If someone were to ask me to make a minor change in my life to drastically improve their quality of life, I would definitely agree.
I think the problem isn’t the kids and parents who so many of you have accused of overprotection and neurosis or whatever, the problem is the deeply selfish people who can’t fathom helping anyone else.
I don’t mean for this to come off as an attack on anyone, I really don’t, but I do think this is a prime example of the “only I matter” mentality everyone has nowadays.
I have to side with DtC.
(wow…twice in a 24 hour period. Must have been those bad clams…)
If your little Precious is THAT allergic, he/she/it should not be in school in the first place.