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Are schools going to do have peanut sniffing dogs at all the school doors sniffing for contraband peanut products into school? Then what, the youngster involved gets arrested and thrown into peanut jail?

All I can say is Give me a Break! With all the problems that are going on in society today we're going to pay attention to actually banning peanut products from schools. There are bigger problems that schools and colleges face today without taking attention away to police school for possible contraband peanuts.

With kids going psycho in the national spotlight on college campuses, and high schools, there are bigger fish to fry. Many schools are locked up tighter than a drum to keep the so-called bad guys out of harm's way. Many school have guards, metal detectors, and cameras at the doors to deter people from committing a crime.

Kids are feeling alienated and lash back by shooting other kids to death , in an attempt to make a statement. This is a problem that needs to be addressed through the United States, not what harm bringing peanuts could do to other students. Kids need to know that they belong, that they are in a group, and have friends so that they don't become alienated. By having groups on school campuses directed at not only the popular kids, but aimed at possibly everyone, then maybe the problem can be solved.

Eating peanuts and bringing them onto school campuses may harm a student if the allergic student eats the peanuts and gets too close to them. Yes, ingesting peanuts for some people can be a life- threatening situation, but that allergic student will probably already know that. He may have a medical bracelet to let others know, or carry an epi-pen to alleviate the allergic reaction.

Each school can take peanuts out of the food they serve, so that a student can't become ill from them. Other people in the world have allergic reactions to the food they eat also, such as soy, milk, eggs, and wheat. Does this mean that each school has to police the kids coming into school for these products also? Does that mean every school in America must take all those products out of the food? After all, what is fair for the goose, is fair for the gander as well. Then, there won't be any food to eat for lunch and schools can save a lot of money by doing away with their school lunch programs.

School districts need to concentrate on teaching kids and not spend all their time trying to figure out how to keep peanuts out of the schools.

What happened to personal responsibility? Why should schools have to solve the problem? They already are being asked to not allow guns into schools, or students and non-students into the schools to harm anyone. Schools have already been asked to keep any and all medications out of students' hands. Schools must obtain permission from parents to allow a child to have a Tylenol. Girls who have taken a Midol for that time of month in the past have received harsh reprimands for taking one Midol in the past.

Give me a break! Let's go back to actually teaching students , and stop making issues out of non-issues. If we continue the way we are going, then we will live in a world where not just some of our freedoms have been taken away, but they all will be gone.

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