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[sallymonster]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110322/lf_nm_life/us_peanut_allergy

[Fox]

I don't have any problem with the school making accommodations for children, and washing their hands and mouths really isn't that big of a deal. However, I still think she should not be in public school for her sake. All it takes is one kid bringing in a peanut snack to potentially put her life at risk if her allergies are that severe. Her parents are being extremely irresponsible by placing her safety in the hands of every parent and child at her school district to such an extreme degree. The state should provide some sort of credit for alternative education in such circumstances.

[recessiontime]

No fox, the welfare state does not have an endless supply of money to deal with obscure illnesses in expensive ways like you daydream over. Accommodating disabled people is expensive and not worthwhile when you could be spending that money in more productive ways like spending it on the gifted children who might actually contribute to society in a meaningful way.

[sallymonster]

The girl's parents probably don't have the time or resources to home-school. Or perhaps they feel that the social benefits of their daughter going to school outweigh the risks. It's easy to say that the girl's parents shouldn't have her in public school, but we don't know the full circumstances that led to the parents' decision.

As for the other parents who are complaining, they need to show a little empathy. Sure, it's annoying for them and their children to have to wash their hands and mouths all the time and remember not to bring peanuts to school. But they need to stop and think about how much harder it must be for this little girl and her family to cope with such a severe allergy.

And the girl may not need the special accommodations for all 12 years of school; children often outgrow food allergies or the allergies get less severe.

[Fox]

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I had never hear of peanut allergy until a few years ago. Have peanuts changed or humans started evolving in some way.

Also I have never hear of death by peanut.

Is this similar to the massive ADD epidemic?"

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[methdxman]

Guys, this all boils down to two factors:

Americans becoming more and more *beep*-ish.
Lawsuits continuing to be big business in America.

That's it. That's the only reason why we have b.s. like this in the U.S.

[MyNameIsNobody]

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[Hyeon Een]

The whole peanut allergy thing is weird. It was pretty unknown in the West a few decades ago, and it's completely unknown in the East now. Occasionaly I have a conversation class which involves talking about allergies.. when I mention how serious Americans are about peanuts it generally makes the students burst into laughter or think I'm lying (or both!).

It's interesting how this allergy has developed over the last few years though. In your grandparents or great-grandparents day it didn't exist. Now it does. Very odd. I often think that half of it is parental "perceived peanut allergy" + "real panic attack" due to parental panic.

As a kid it didn't exist in the UK, but I believe it's getting 'popular' now. Several years after N. America.

Most odd if it's a real problem. When will the peanut disease hit Asia?

[caniff]

^What you say sounds similar to autism over here in the US. It was an almost unheard of affliction when I was a kid, but now I hear like 1 in a 100 children are being diagnosed as autistic.

WTF?

[Hyeon Een]

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