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Filed in National by on August 18, 2008

School children who are allergic to peanuts should not eat them.

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  1. Delaware's Brilliantest Blogger says:
    August 18, 2008 at 8:37 am

    ohhhhhh, so you aren’t going to blame the peanut makers???

    I thought you libs want to ban the peanuts.

    don’t you guys knjow that a peanut is the same as broccoli

  2. jason330 says:
    August 18, 2008 at 8:44 am

    My peanut rights are being taken away dude!!

  3. Duffy says:
    August 18, 2008 at 11:36 am

    I’m assuming there’s some underlying snark at work here. If I’m reading the tea leaves correctly, Jason is referring to the absurd ban on all things peanutty at schools these days.

    Complete overreaction IMNHO.

  4. mike w. says:
    August 18, 2008 at 11:42 am

    Yeah, why should I not be able to have a Snickers bar just because some dumb kid who’s allergic to peanuts might eat one?

    Definitely an overreaction, but one that’s typical of liberal school administrators. (zero-tolerance anyone?)

  5. jason330 says:
    August 18, 2008 at 11:45 am

    I would put the blame at the feet of over litigious parents, most of them Republicans.

  6. liberalgeek says:
    August 18, 2008 at 11:47 am

    I completely disagree.

    I love peanuts, but there are kids that will, quite literally, die if they are exposed to peanuts. It is akin to banning blowfish or some other delicacy that will kill one in a hundred times. I know I don’t want the school serving blowfish to my kids.

  7. liberalgeek says:
    August 18, 2008 at 11:48 am

    I would put the blame at the feet of over litigious parents

    I can’t imagine what a parent would sue over their kid being killed in school… Good point. (snark)

  8. anon says:
    August 18, 2008 at 11:48 am

    Yeah, why should I not be able to have a Snickers bar just because some dumb kid who’s allergic to peanuts might eat one?

    To put it in terms you (might) understand: For much the same reason you shouldn’t leave a loaded gun on the table where some dumb kid might pick it up.

  9. mike w. says:
    August 18, 2008 at 11:49 am

    And where has the over-litigation come from? From an idea that pervades contemporary liberal ideology, that the individual and individual responsibility are not paramount. Everything is the fault of society, bad experiences, an object, or some other person.

    When I was in grade school you could get stuff from the school vending machines that had peanuts. It was simply never an issue. What’s changed? Certainly kids were allergic to peanuts 10-15 years ago.

  10. anon says:
    August 18, 2008 at 11:52 am

    I don’t remember growing up with kids who had peanut allergies. I guess they just died young back then.

  11. Delaware's Brilliantest Blogger says:
    August 18, 2008 at 12:04 pm

    nice….

  12. liberalgeek says:
    August 18, 2008 at 12:27 pm

    anon isn’t far off. 0.5% of kids are allergic to peanuts right now. It is not unreasonable to assume that peanut allergies have increased over the past few decades, like almost every allergy. So I would guess that it is a combination of more kids with the allergy and more of them living to school-age.

    That 0.5% probably represents 2 or 3 kids in an elementary school. Also, many children outgrow their allergies, so at the time Mike would have had access to a vending machine, many of those kids would have been aged out of the allergy. That is not the case in an elementary school.

  13. Joanne Christian says:
    August 18, 2008 at 3:42 pm

    Don’t even get me started…..

  14. jason330 says:
    August 18, 2008 at 3:45 pm

    Since she does not want to get started, I’m guessing Joanne thinks peanutbutter should be allowed in school.

  15. Joanne Christian says:
    August 18, 2008 at 6:28 pm

    Keep guessing….but I will say the most wonderful peanut butter icing in the world was made by the lunch ladies when I was in school….on that golden cake. Yes…children who are allergic to peanuts should not eat them….but…does this other protective bubble follow them to the mall,the movies, the boardwalk, the ballfield, the airport…..catch my drift?

  16. mike w. says:
    August 18, 2008 at 11:20 pm

    Thank you Joanne. Life involves risk.

    Hell, with the attitude in schools these days I’m betting school administrators now wouldn’t have let me do half the stuff I did at school, in gym, and at recess. After all, I have CP, so I might have gotten hurt. In fact, I did end up with 2 minor concussions from years of basketball, but that’s beside the point.

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