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Peanuts. Kids can't be protected from everything, even life-threatening environmental hazards. I'm not so naïve as to say parents should just deal, but anyone who tells me that my kid can't eat a PB&J because someone passing by might encounter a peanut molecule off his breath can stuff it. I strongly take Hank's point, and I suffered from a life-threatening childhood food allergy including dermal contact reactions (which was not outgrown, thank you). That said, even though it is an idiotic slippery slope, I think public schools should adopt anti-peanut policies, if only because bullshit lawsuits should not be paid out of my tax dollars. Parents of allergy-ridden students, however, should be told that the policies as a practical matter are unenforceable by the school, which can, at best, inform all parents of the policy and try to dispose of peanut products it becomes aware of. (Or, ultlimately, they need to just deal.)
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JFC, what is the big fucking deal about not sending your kid to day care/preschool/school with PB&J? Is there some preordained right to eat a PB&J? Besides, PB&J is a shitty packed lunch because the J soaks through the bread anyway. The only thing worse is a tuna sandwich packed in the same bag as a ripe banana.
If your kid loves PB&J so much, let him eat it for dinner.
This way, parents of kids with peanut allergies won't have to home school their kids. Think about it: given the unexplained rise in peanut allergies, do you really want to create such a large cohort of home-schooled weirdos?
