Does the First Lady's menu requirements apply to Charter Schools? What about private schools? How about home schooling?

You should probably provide them with this link: http://harpers.org/archive/2008/01/everyon…

Tough life, isn't it, having to be a little more creative? Mr. Peanut wept.

Wow, I've heard some crazy justifications for segregation in my day, but this is the first claim I've heard that integration is interfering with the making of a peanut butter sandwich.

Points for creativity, I guess. Clearly you're batshit crazy, but kind of creative none-the-less.

Okey doke, let's see. Peanut allergies are real, and the kids can end up in the hospital if exposed to small amounts. You are asked not to send peanut butter to the school. Me thinks you are a fascist. Okay- not a fascist- but a selfish person who needs to clean up their act re: school lunches if you are going to be a great parent. Don't model self-centered behavior for your kids.

Look- I am tired of parents imposing all sorts of crazy poop on the schools. But the peanut allergy is real. Do your research and repent.

Michelle O'bama instigated the USDA National School Lunch Program (NSLP) to require draconian menus for student diets in public and non-profit schools which receive Federal funding.

The ranter raises a the question in my mind, of whether students are being restricted on what they bring to eat from home? Perhaps she is complaining about teacher/parent peer pressure?

Personally, I'll eat most anything, but hydrogenated oil makes me sluggish as Hell. Adam's is messy to use, but it's really the best kind of peanut butter to eat. Add your own honey or preservers.

I'm with you anon, the percentage effected by the allergy is only like 1.5% of the population. It's just another example of overreaction to a perceived threat out of line with the actual threat. Not serving it in the cafeteria is fine if you want to be cautious, but the banning of peanut products from schools is just fucking insane. If your kid is so allergic to something so common home school them or do your job and teach them how to avoid it.

Yeah, cuz kids ALWAYS do what they are told, never eat anything unless they know every ingredient in the food and whether or not the food was processed with machines that also process peanut products.

Recently there was that little girl who accidentally took a single bite out of a tainted Rice Krispy treat, spit it out, slammed some Epinephrine and still died. Sometimes you can be careful all your life and still die horribly from an allergic reaction; all it takes is for something to be mislabeled.

Keep your peanuts at home, fascist.

Of course you're a fascist, being insensitive against those with peanut allergies is how Benito Mussolini started out...

Oh the humanity, you can't make your kid a peanut butter sandwich! You aren't a fascists, you just are a first world privileged rich person that has no real problems, and yet, you come here to bitch about peanut allergies, is it really worth a child dying so you can send your kid to school with a peanut butter sandwich?

Are all of you other commentators illiterate? I know I can't spell and my punctuation is absurd, but at least I can read that the mother wants to make a peanut butter samich for her own child and some entity or entities are either prohibiting or attempting to dissuade her from so doing.

She's not making samiches for everybody. The school isn't handing them out. Nobody is forcing anybody to eat anything. I think it's safe to assume here, that her children actually like peanut butter samiches and that they aren't allergic to them, either.

What I want to know, is if there is now a law against a kid taking a peanut butter samich to school and eating it in front of students who have been deprived of that privilege, while being left with no option but having to consume a distasteful, low calorie, non-filling, lunch that leaves them dissatisfied and hungry?

Dread, if there is a student in a child's class that has a severe peanut allergy, you can't have any peanut products in the classroom. A person with a severe peanut allergy can have a reaction to peanut oils and dust that are in the air from a sandwich next to them.

You've shown how you feel about Obama's plan in 3 different posts now. I don't think you'll get the reaction you're looking for.

Snickerdoodle, you have my permission to feed the troll in the peanut gallery.

Don't know why their parents don't keep them at home. I just know I had a student like that a couple years ago. It was a huge pain. Tons of snacks and food have peanut ingredients in them. I wasn't about to argue with a doctor's letter or my principal. It's too hard to find a job right now.

Your rant is somewhat easy to understand. Did I just say that? Anyway, pretend ever morning when you are making their lunch, they are allergic to peanut butter like some other children.

No your probably not a Fascist, but might have Jihadist leanings.

Messmör FTW!!

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Kids with life-threatening allergies to peanuts have the same right to a public education as every other kid (hello...Americans with Disabilities Act?)

This particular allergy can be triggered by the mere presence of peanut-based products in miniscule amounts in an environment; traces left on furniture or aspirated into the air. The only way exposure can be controlled for in severe cases (and a mild or moderate case can become severe without warning) is to eliminate the allergen from the communal area completely. The victim doesn't have to EAT or even TOUCH the substance to experience a reaction up to and including death.

It's a pathetic commentary that being asked to "sacrifice" something as trivial as sending fucking PEANUT
PRODUCTS to school with your kid has you ready to segregate.

Stuff them with Jiffy at home and shut the fuck up.

No, you're not a fascist; you're just an insensitive, selfish asshole. There, I said it.

^Please see my previous comment.

How exactly do you ensure that not a single molecule of peanut product enters the school? What, do you want all the kids to go through a peanut detector when they get to school?

The author might be somewhat insensitive, but it's better than being overly sensitive like yourself there Raven333.

Clearly this is the result when two people with inferior and/or deficient reproductive capabilities get together, fuck, and reproduce.

Don't we already send these evolutionary failures to their own Montesouri academies?