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: 2/24/2006 5:07:00 AM Author: williamsmummy (sarahchapman_gb@hotmail.com) Subject: Ahhhh!HHHHHHHHHHHH!! Trying to remain calm in a sea of over reactive people, with extreme opinons. I like to keep an open mind over the subject of home schooling. I would like to think that a parent has based their child's schooling choices for many reasons than just purely on avoidance of an allergic reaction/asthma./diabetes etc There are advantages to home schooling, as well as disadvantages. As i have posted previously, children should at all times be included in school and its life, and not just excluded for a health concern that is managed well. My sons school is , (like all the other pupils) teaching him the survival skills he will need for adult life. I am not a parent who thinks a school should declare themselves nut free, such declarations are pointers to my mind, that they dont understand the allergy. There are many foods in school that my child is allergic to, and to a certain extent , that is good. I feel quite offended over an opinon that feels that all allergic children should be homeschooled. I am not capable of being a primary /senior school teacher, i am not trained for that, however I have learnt the skills needed to bring up my child in a way that will keep him alive and well, regardless of his allergies. It's vital that my son learns to cope with his allergies, and mixes socially with all types of people, as well as eating with them. Even if they are eating foods to which he is allergic. I dont think homeschooling is the answer for us, social exclusion of any kind is not helping a child to cope with their allergies, nor prepare them for a normal adult life with them. As a qualifed NNEB i have just come home from giving a lecture to college ( various childcare/teaching related) students on the subject of allergy management and protocals for young children in school. The wave of allergic children is so huge, that accomadations have to be made to include these children, and can be made to work extremely well. The atopic child is here to stay and is more common than you think. Its not a problem that is solved by stamping 'exclusion' or 'homeschooling' on the foreheads of normal healthy children who just happen to have atopic diseases. I have to say that my first reaction to the last posts was of extreme anger and rage, thankfully I am calmer now. Being of a atopic disposistion myself, I shall depart and sit and scratch my ezcema for a while. Name: Email: Subject

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