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pstokely (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 03:10 AM Original message |
Peanut allergy stirs controversy at Florida school |
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truthisfreedom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 03:15 AM Response to Original message |
1. It's called bringing your lunch from home. |
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nosmokes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 03:34 AM Response to Reply #1 |
4. No it's not. Seriously. |
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pstokely (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 10:29 AM Response to Reply #4 |
35. Maybe even smelling peanuts from a distance |
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TalkingDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 10:19 AM Response to Reply #1 |
31. BZZZZZZZZ: Life Fail |
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bluestateguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 03:17 AM Response to Original message |
2. The accomodations being demanded here go beyond a reasonable level |
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hifiguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 10:50 AM Response to Reply #2 |
44. Agreed |
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aSpeckofDust (292 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 03:33 AM Response to Original message |
3. I have an idea. |
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harmonicon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 04:12 AM Response to Reply #3 |
6. school is about socialization. what you suggest is frightening. nt. |
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aSpeckofDust (292 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 05:00 AM Response to Reply #6 |
10. We must have gone through a different school system. |
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harmonicon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 07:18 AM Response to Reply #10 |
19. maybe we did, I don't know. |
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eppur_se_muova (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 02:34 PM Response to Reply #10 |
53. Silly, that's what socialization means! |
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Lance_Boyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 06:46 AM Response to Reply #6 |
16. Socialization sometimes involves nuts. This girl is going to be unsocialized forever. |
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harmonicon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 07:19 AM Response to Reply #16 |
20. I don't think I was suggesting that, was I? |
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The Backlash Cometh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 08:57 AM Response to Reply #6 |
28. How much socializing will a child do if she continually goes into shock whenever she |
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harmonicon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 09:56 AM Response to Reply #28 |
29. whatever she'd do if that happened elsewhere in life. |
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The Backlash Cometh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 10:03 AM Response to Reply #29 |
30. I don't have the answers. |
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TalkingDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 10:38 AM Response to Reply #6 |
37. Socialization with a peer group is overrated. |
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NashVegas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 11:56 AM Response to Reply #6 |
52. Socialization? Ha |
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Little Star (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 05:54 AM Response to Reply #3 |
13. This is a good idea. She can interact via live cam during class time.. |
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mcar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 10:26 AM Response to Reply #3 |
33. What if both parents work? |
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WatsonT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 11:03 AM Response to Reply #3 |
48. Send her to France |
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jtuck004 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 03:44 AM Response to Original message |
5. "If I had a daughter who had a problem, I would not ask everyone else to change their lives to fit |
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midnight (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 04:26 AM Response to Original message |
7. I can imagine all the trouble parents have with this one.... |
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Sherman A1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 04:40 AM Response to Original message |
8. I have lived with a nut allergy all my life |
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Little Star (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 06:14 AM Response to Reply #8 |
14. Are comments #3 & #13 a possible way to accommodate?... |
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Sherman A1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 07:45 AM Response to Reply #14 |
22. Perhaps a near term start |
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pstokely (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 10:35 AM Response to Reply #8 |
36. How common are peanut allergies that severe? |
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Sherman A1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 04:21 PM Response to Reply #36 |
54. Frankly, I don't know |
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Corgigal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 04:40 AM Response to Original message |
9. Why doesn't the community have a fund raiser |
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sendero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 05:22 AM Response to Original message |
11. All of her teachers should... |
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JCMach1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 05:43 AM Response to Original message |
12. This may not qualify under ADA given a recent ruling |
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Ilsa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 06:15 AM Response to Original message |
15. The school is now claiming that other students weren't having their faces |
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tammywammy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 06:46 AM Response to Reply #15 |
17. That's what I had an issue with in the original OP about this a few days ago |
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Ilsa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 07:09 AM Response to Reply #17 |
18. As long as they are only rinsing their mouths with water. |
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hobbit709 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 07:21 AM Response to Original message |
21. Unless they put the kid in an isolation bubble |
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Sen. Walter Sobchak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 08:20 AM Response to Original message |
23. So where were these kids when I was in school? |
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WatsonT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 08:52 AM Response to Reply #23 |
27. It's largely mass hysteria |
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pstokely (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 10:43 AM Response to Reply #27 |
39. Society has become germ phobic because of big pharma |
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hifiguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 10:58 AM Original message |
That makes intuitive sense |
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WatsonT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 11:09 AM Response to Reply #39 |
50. Well a lot of it is that |
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blondeatlast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 10:28 AM Response to Reply #23 |
34. I keep wondering the same thing. At age 7, I was dxed with |
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tammywammy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 10:46 AM Response to Reply #34 |
42. From the comments on a previous story posted on this |
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Lyric (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 09:10 PM Response to Reply #42 |
56. Bringing in food is a nightmare anymore. |
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tammywammy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 09:18 PM Response to Reply #56 |
57. Good point |
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hifiguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 10:56 AM Response to Reply #23 |
45. Same here. |
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tammywammy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 10:58 AM Response to Reply #45 |
46. I graduted high school May 1999. |
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bluestateguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 11:16 AM Response to Reply #23 |
51. Beats me |
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WatsonT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 08:50 AM Response to Original message |
24. With this severe of an allergy she needs to stay home |
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pstokely (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 10:45 AM Response to Reply #24 |
41. Home may not be safe enough |
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WatsonT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 11:00 AM Response to Reply #41 |
47. Well that is the inherent risk associated with having severe allergies |
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kickysnana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 08:52 AM Response to Original message |
25. Separates the Christians from the Sodom and Gommorahites. |
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Maiden England (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 08:52 AM Response to Original message |
26. what happened to teaching kids about respecting others needs? |
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Igel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 08:35 PM Response to Reply #26 |
55. Ignore that it limits others' choices and actions. |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 10:22 AM Response to Original message |
32. THEY'RE MAKING KIDS WASH THEIR HANDS!!!11!!! OH, THE HORROR!!!111!!! |
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WatsonT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 11:05 AM Response to Reply #32 |
49. If the consequence of one kid out of however many failing to do so one time |
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Modern_Matthew (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 10:41 AM Response to Original message |
38. Awful situation. But if schools won't even cater to right-brained students...what do you expect? nt |
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kiva (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 10:45 AM Response to Original message |
40. On another thread about this, someone |
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pstokely (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 10:47 AM Response to Original message |
43. What if some other parent complains their kid is allergic to the peanut sniffing dog? |
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