Any suggestions on starting a peanut-free school?

The best information I have found to-date about PA policy and schools would be the province of Prince Edward Island's extremely progressive policy toward PA. If you go to [url="http://www.cadvision.com"]www.cadvision.com[/url] and then click on links and scroll down 'til you find it, you can actually download it. I know that I have copied it for quite a few people. It is quite a progressive policy in conjunction with their Health Department and really amazing. Also, to-day my son's school sent their monthly newsletter home and rather than saying "peanut free" which the school isn't, his classroom is, they are using the using the wording "Reduce the Risk". I know that you can obtain different school board's policies on how to set-up a "peanut free" classroom and then, where I live, it's the individual school's principal's decision whether they want the school to be "peanut free" or not. Then, I guess they would simply follow the guidelines set-out for the "peanut free" classroom. Do you have a school board that you could contact to get an actual copy of their policy? Actually, though, if you check out the P.E.I. policy, it is pretty amazing and progressive and goes even beyond my expectations for my son in his school and as far as "peanut free" is a lot "better" than my individual school board's policy. So, if you could download that, it's a pretty good start. There's also probably some really good information at [url="http://www.cadvision.com"]www.cadvision.com[/url] as they're really the place to begin for all information it seems in Canada - they have links to everything! Even if you're American, I think you could look at the P.E.I. policy and still try to implement what they have regardless. I know I sent a copy of that policy to a woman in Texas that was going to take it to the meeting with her daughter's new school. Good luck and best wishes!
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Heather_Dwyer, sorry, I should have checked out the website more clearly before posting. It has actually changed since the last time I was at it. At any rate, go to [url="http://www.cadvision.com/allergy"]www.cadvision.com/allergy[/url] Then, there are about 8 - 10 different things you can click on - click on Links. When the links page comes up scroll down 'til you come to Information Handbook on Anaphylaxis (Provincial School Policy) Province of PEI. Click on this. It will bring up another page with the same link at the top. Click on it again. Then you will actually be taken to the Ministry of Education site for Prince Edward Island. Scroll down 'til you find Information Handbook on Anaphylactic Shock (2nd Edition). I believe it's 84K and you're able to download both Adobe Reader, which you need to open it and the policy itself. Best wishes.
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