Home Hot Topics Articles Directors' Choice Awards About Us / Contact Us Activities & Curriculum Activities for Outcome-Based Learning Arts & Crafts Music for Learning Recommended Reading Sharing Boards: What Do YOU Think? NEWSlink Current National News Conference Calendar Topics In Early Childhood Education Art and Creativity in Early Childhood Education Job Sharing Board State Licensing Requirements Stay Connected! Each month we'll send you an email filled with articles and ideas for your classroom. Subscribe Now Date: 5/30/2005 7:59:00 PM Author: Mom and teacher Subject: peanut allergy Reading all of this saddens me. I have been a teacher and a parent. While teaching, I didn't have nut allergies, but I did have a student who had nut allergies. I didn't mind accommodating his needs at all. Aren't we supposed to care about the kids--all of them? Peanuts and nut products can kill allergic kids--plain and simple. If we don't make some adjustments, we are hurting kids. I quit teaching when my daughter was born. My daughter happens to have just been diagnosed with a nut allergy. I think if everyone could put themselves in each other's shoes, we could all understand each other better. As for a solution, let's all work together! How about nut free tables--allergic kids and those not having nuts on that day who want to sit with them could sit at those tables. Kids eating peanut butter could sit at another table or in another room with other kids who aren't allergic and want to sit with them. All kids in this room or at this table would need to wash up carefully after lunch or snack though. Tables would have to be cleaned carefully by staff. Parents of those with allergies don't want to cause problems for the other kids. We just want to keep our kids alive--that's not too much to ask, is it? As for having to send our kids to private schools, what a horrible statement. Read PL94-142 regarding people with disabilities. You wouldn't ask to send someone who needed special education to go to a separate school. Don't treat these kids that way either. Name: Email: Subject

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