Peanut butter cover-up costs teachers their jobs

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.omaha.com/article/20130507/NEWS/705079937/1685#peanut-butter-cover-up-costs-teachers-their-jobs

By Joe Dejka
WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER

It was a cover-up that led to the hasty departure of two special education teachers from Millard Public Schools' Walt Disney Elementary School last year.

The teachers spun “a web of deceit,” as one state official put it, to cover up after one of them allowed a student with a peanut allergy to taste a peanut butter sandwich during a class activity.

The fifth-grade boy broke out in an itchy rash and his eyes swelled, according to documents made public as part of a formal state complaint challenging their credentials to continue teaching in Nebraska.

The documents indicate that the teachers misled the boy's parents and school administrators about how the boy came into contact with peanut butter.

FULL story at link.

[Wait Wut]

1. Good.

They're idiots. That boy could have died.

[Sherman A1]

2. Precisely

Peanut allergy is absolutely nothing to mess around with.