Mom Demands School Go Peanut-Free For Allergic Child

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59. You can't guarantee his ultimate safety

--everyone knows that. But it is a calculated risk the parents are willing to take so that their child can have some normalcy. All the parents are asking for is a group effort to minimize the risk. The parents have probably already had to sign legal waivers and such--I don't think that's the issue. The issue is whether the community is flexible enough to handle this as a disability, which they accommodate for other children. It is invisible, but it is a disability. Whether the community has enough compassion and sees it as their desire to help the family--is the deciding factor. Personally I would be happy to use it as a way to teach my kid that helping others can be a group thing. I wouldn't hesitate to offer to support the family in such an easy way. Maybe sometime I might need some generosity in my life. This is just what I was taught--not from a religious angle but from having parents who always helped others and received it in return.

I had a good buddy in elementary who was a severe diabetic. It was always a fight to balance the kid's sugar levels and once he even ate a little too much fruit (some other kid's fruit) at school and it was a crisis. So these things are always going on in schools and kids can be made aware of what they can do to help out and be kind to the kid and his family. Diversity applies to health as well as ethnicity.