Mom Demands School Go Peanut-Free For Allergic Child

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408. Schooling is a necessity, schooling happening in particular buildings, not so much.

Besides, the overprotective mother aside, the kid can probably attend a public school without significant risk anyway, risks that are small when compared to plenty of other things we don't raise a ruckus about.

I'm not against, in principle, inconveniencing many people for the benefit of the few, but the inconvenience here is large and the benefit is questionable, small, and attainable by other means.

For those who've said they know plenty of schools that already have no-peanut policies (I'm not sure if no nuts at all, as this particular mother wants, has been implemented anywhere), and it's no big deal, I'll bet that if you looked into it closely that there's a whole lot of cheating going on (like the parent another poster mentioned simply repackaging a forbidden treat in a plain plastic bag without its original and damning ingredients-listing wrapper), so that protection is diminished or even illusory.

It doesn't end up mattering very much, however, if the garlic is real or fake, because it turns out vampire attacks are awfully rare with or without garlic on hand.