The kids bringing PB sitting in one place--DS can choose where to sit

Quote:Originally posted by McCobbre:
[b]Cleaning the table is the only question I have. [/b]

Can he bring a placemat, or would that be too dorky for him? An alternative would be to pack a couple rolled up napkins or papertowels he can spread out on the table to eat off of. Then he just has to be careful not to touch the uncovered part of the table. Or you could pack him a wetwipe and he can wipe down the table himself (if he's old enough to have this kind of responsibility, I forgot how old your son is). I believe school personal are *supposed* to be washing the tables with some sort of bleach anyway (I think it's a health department thing, you may have to check), so all these would *hopefully* be extra measures to take on top of that.

I'm glad it's working out for him and that he's happy!

McCobbre,

Glad to hear good news. Our son is always the first to sit at the table, so it's always clean when he gets there. This is the way it's been since K. Any chance of that happening?

Quote:Originally posted by Lam:
[b]McCobbre,

Glad to hear good news. Our son is always the first to sit at the table, so it's always clean when he gets there. This is the way it's been since K. Any chance of that happening? [/b]

This is the first year he's not; he's in the second lunch shift now. I don't know what they do at regular tables between the lunch periods. This all came about rather quickly and I was quite out of the picture at work. It was a DH/DS/School thing.

But I have looked at him in the evenings.

He could bring his own wipe--he's in 3rd grade. Heck--he trains people to use the Epi. [img]http://uumor.pair.com/nutalle2/peanutallergy/wink.gif[/img] I don't know if he'd do it, though--whether it would bother him to stand out like that.

There are two nurses on staff who are always at school. We bought our house because of the school nurse at this school (and we thought DS would do well with the principal) because of her allergy awareness and willingness to do whatever is necessary to protect DS.

Not that I want to chance things. I guess what I'm saying is that I like this arrangement, but there was a bit of the cart before the horse-ness with it (because of DS), and I have to make sure that cleanliness is in place.

Do you have a lunch aid or monitor? We have a wonderful lunch aid who wipes dd's table w/ their cleanser and then Lysol wipes (provided by me) to ensure the table is clean and safe for dd. This has worked out great for us.

No, we don't have an aide. When DS was in K and at a different school, the teacher sat next to him.

But really, I don't think an aide would be helpful for him in particular.

I had it written into dd`s 504 that she would always have first lunch. Whatever grade she was in in elementary school, that grade would have first lunch. So each year they would change the grades that had first lunch, but dd`s grade was always one of them. That way, she wasn`t arriving during change of lunch shift with one set of kids leaving and another arriving, and the table was really clean.

McCobbre,

My son (4th grade) takes single wipes packets to school to wipe down the desks he uses throughout the day. They change classrooms several times after lunch.

I just asked him if he was embarrassed about having to do that and he said yes. It takes a few minutes at the beginning of class, so he always feels rushed to do it, too.

I keep telling him it isn't just about HIS safety. It's also about thinking about everyone else. I asked him how he thought the teachers would feel if he had a reaction in their rooms. I asked him how he thought his friends would feel about seeing him have a reaction. Those questions, and their answers, help give him more reasons to keep wiping the desks.

I'm not sure I would be comfortable with my son wiping down the cafeteria table before he eats, though. There would be a lot more direct risk of contact there, I would think. And the "communal" cloth and bucket would be out of the question.

I just want to clarify that the lunch aid is not only for my dd, she is an aid for everyone in the cafeteria. After speaking with her, she is nice enough to thoroughly clean the table before dd sits so that my dd does not have to do it herself.

my son is in kdg and the school does not serve peanut products either -- they do serve may contains and things -- my son has several food allergies so he packs however the only children that sit at his table are buyers - besides the other boy who packs due to MFA -- any other packers in his class go to another table. my son also has first lunch so the table thing hasn't been an issue this year.