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: 2/16/2006 3:58:00 AM Author: Renee (Sheilawheila1@yahoo.com) Subject: peanut free I just stumbled upon this site. Having read the entire thread, I admit to being absolutely outraged! Firstly, nowhere, NOWHERE did I read of any interest in anyone else's sufferings. The one theme that runs through the postings is, "MY problem is so severe that you must care. If you do not, and if you do not make allowances, you are..." Here you get to choose your adjective - uncaring, unfeeling, selfish, lacking in compassion, uneducated, ignorant, etc. How dare you! Yes, it is a fact that 150-200 people in the US die each year of all food allergies. That is a tragedy, one that I would not want to experience. However, it is also true that 100-150 people die each year from insect stings - virtually the same number. My son happens to have a bee sting allergy, one that has not improved with venom immunotherapy. I say, make a new rule in school that no windows are allowed to be opened. In addition, a field trip outdoors is out of the question. He could be stung! He could die! You must change your ways! My daughter has severe asthma. While for the most part it is under control, it is triggered by respiratory infections. Do any of you caring parents send your little darlings to school with colds? Every day I see kids coughing and sneezing all over the place. Are you aware that this could send her back to the emergency room? According to the CDC over 4,000 deaths occured in the year 2000 which are attributable to asthma. Over 4,000!! I say, check the temperatures of all kids at the entrance of the school. If their temps are elevated, or if they are coughing, sneezing or have runny noses keep them out until they provide a physician's permission. Does this sound bizarre to you? Of course it does, and you are probably shocked at the suggestions. Well I am shocked at the suggestion that I MUST stop my child from doing something he enjoys because of your child's problems. Your child has problems, so does mine, so does the child of the parent down the block. You cannot, nor should you be asked, to make allowances for each. Deal with it! In the last decade "for the children" has become the first and last bastion of every scoundrel wanting to curtail liberties, including: banning peanut products in schools; fountain pens for children under the age of 14 (a school system in the UK); fattening foods and soda. There are more, and the list is growing daily. Where will it stop? Name: Email: Subject

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