Mom Demands School Go Peanut-Free For Allergic Child

[MADem]

291. You don't build an elevator just for a kid with spina bifida.

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You put in an elevator because the Americans With Disabilities Act tells you that you have to put one in, so that parents, grandparents, teachers and students with mobility issues can have access.

What a canard.

The actions of the other children in their homes (having peanut butter for BREAKFAST, for example) will not kill the HIV positive child, or the "slow learner," (who will have an IEP and be helped by being given extra schooling), or the kid with CP, or the kid with Tourette's. All of your examples are children with special needs who will have an individualized plan to accommodate their particular issues. They won't get killed by peanut butter.

However, if the janitor has a peanut butter cookie at home, and the dust from that cookie can "potentially" kill a kid (as this mother claims) than it is far less onerous and far less "expensive and inconvenient" to simply pay for a distance-learning plan for the child, in order that he not be killed by "stray peanut dust."

The issue here is school and taxpayer liability, and the inability of the school to be able to positively, without any exception, enforce the conduct of students and visitors.

The mother needs to take the kid to an allergist/immunologist, and attempt to have the kid desensitized. Or coddle the kid for the rest of his (miserable--and it will be miserable) life.