The parent who originally started this thread has asked us to remove her profile and posts. She says they were old posts and misunderstood.
She wrote >>
Please remove my posts "..." from the board they are old and misunderstood. Thanks.
She also wrote>>
Please delete my posts and my topic and my registration. As soon as possible. I have been unable to delete them myself
however I will continue to try.
Help. >
As most of you know we do not like to delete or edit posts!!! We all need to look at the "big picture" and see that our threads often show both sides (or the many sides) of an issue.
In deleting her post (as per her request) I realized too late (I tried to stop it) that if you delete the first post it deletes the entire thread below it!
We lost a lot of good educational text which many of us contributed to (including myself).
I hope those of you who had something on this thread will try to remember what you wrote and post it back again on this new thread.
The topic is about why parents of non allergic children are asked to help out and also to address their reluctance to helping out by removing peanut butter products from around a peanut allergic child.
Thanks for your help!
Stay Safe,
[email]Chris@PeanutAllergy.Com[/email]
[This message has been edited by Chris PeanutAllergy Com (edited September 11, 2000).]
That is a shame that she wanted her posts deleted because they were "old and misunderstood". If I remember correctly, her concern was that her child's school was banning all snacks - no food for kids between breakfast and lunch, which I think is a rather extreme form of peanut-free.
As most of you know, once a thread gets started, other topics often get thrown into the mix, sometimes we go a bit off topic and by the end of the thread we have to go back up to top to see what the original post was! This makes it so interesting, and I often try to check out posts, even if I don't have a question about it, because of the diverse nature of the threads.
Anyway, my post under this thread was concerning a parent of a non-allergic child at my daughter's future public school (which is "peanut-free") who is sending peanuts in his child's lunch everyday, in defiance of a note sent home asking parents not to send peanut products to school. The PA child is currently attending the school in 1st grade, has a severe airborne peanut allergy, and after keeping just kindergarten peanut-free for her last year, the school officials decided it would be safer to make the entire school peanut-free.
Remember, we are talking about an airborne reaction with this child. Sometimes complete bans aren't necessary, but in this case she could react to the lunch room, the library, the classroom, anywhere. The parent who is sending peanuts in his child's lunch says he is going to fight to have the right to give his child peanuts at school, taking the school board to court, if necessary.
Since this individual will eventually be impacting the health of my own PA daughter, I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions or experiences dealing with such angry and hard-hearted individuals.