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Banning peanut products from schools isn't as stupid as it sounds,
yes you can fill out all the necessary paper work you need to on your
child in enrolling time but that doesn't mean they are 100% safe from
certain areas such as allergies...
Teachers are under pressure as it is now with 20 or more kids to teach
& watch over once the child is within the school grounds on breaks no
one teacher can remember all the children that have allergies & not,
let alone knows fully what to do to help the said child.

Parents may be able to keep watch over their child within the home
environment as to what they eat or drink, but within the school area
they can't be their 7 or 8 hours a day, so we entrust our child's health
to the schools & who runs & teachers in them.

It's all very well to teach the child at a young age to what they can eat
or drink & what they cannot, but children of 4,5,6,7 yrs of age don't always remember all the time to ask each & every other kid what's in what they are
eating or drinking, when that child offers something to the child with the
allergy, their general mind frame is to play while they have the break time.

Not every child will get a warning sign to the allergy being 10 feet from the product, some it takes ingesting it & then its to late seen as peanuts tend to
kill more people than just give a straight allergic reaction, its not a broken
bone that can be mended it's a child's life.

Communication & involvement between parents, teachers & nurses go's along way
if peanuts can't be banned then other avenues need to be looked at such as
keeping the Epi-pens on site is 1 form for each child that is allergic, secondly
tag the child with not just their names but the allergy & treatment needed, as
for the older ones they can easily carry something on them in their pockets & or wear medical tags.
Putting something in bold writing on a tag will always spark a response from child as to what doe's that say? That's if they can't yet read properly.

As to my point on this, my daughter wasn't allergic to peanuts but instead allergic to orange cordial or any cordial with orange in it...What did I do I tagged her...
Did it work?...Yes.

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