Home Featured Content Article Archive Directors' Choice Awards About Us Activities & Curriculum Arts & Crafts Teacher Quicksource Sharing Boards: What Do YOU Think? NEWSlink Current National News Conference Calendar Blog State Licensing Requirements Stay Connected! Each month we'll send you an email filled with articles and ideas for your classroom. Subscribe Now Date: 6/17/2005 4:20:00 PM Author: Terri Subject: teachers cant be surrogate parents Great post graham! I too have experienced parents who demand more than the teacher's fair share of time, effort, and thoughts and they used the allergy issue to force adjustments to their version of policy. The fact is that very severe reaction to peanuts is quite rare. Although the allergy is becoming more prevalent, the severe reactions are more hype than reality. Teachers have been duped into taking on the role of parent, nurse, and counselor in today's public schools. I feel that if a parent wants that kind of attention for their child then they should pay for extra care and individualized programming and specialized diet that a private school will be able to provide. Public schools have a curriculum to teach, tests to administer, and crowded classrooms to control. Teachers should not have to play the role of surrogate parents in schools when parents choose to relinquish their own responsiblities. If you dont have money to support a child and all the surprises that come with parenthood, then don't have one and expect others to do your job for you! If your child has allergies and you accept the risk of taking them to ball games, amusement parks, zoos, and theaters then you cannot expect people to believe that a school environment is more of a risk than the entertainment venues. It doesn't make alot of sense to say that the risk of peanut exposure is acceptable when it is something you choose to do for fun, but the risk of exposure is unacceptable in schools unless you can dictate demands! There is something nutty about that kind of logic. Name: Email: Subject

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