I am concerned about flaming of an information seeker. Here is someone
gathering information in exactly the right forum , her peers. The peanut
allergy issue is a serious one. It is not unusual for those who have not
had a serious incident in their schools to feel that other parents and
classroom teachers are over reacting. Last week I heard a 3's student
teacher proclaim that when she was a kid everyone ate peanut butter and
there was never a problem. It took a lot for me to inform her in a civil
tone with patience and kindness that there were problems when she was
young but that most of the children with these severe reactions died
before their parents knew the cause. Another issue especially for
specialists is if a class comes to the library without washing up after
lunch and the class with the issue comes in next. I always make sure I
wipe down the keyboards and tables . Another issue is that a child as
young as five may have trouble communicating the begginning of a
reaction. We are on alert to the words I feel kind of funny, I feel
strange or a usually active kid is apart from the group on deck.
I hope tht we continue to support our peers in a gentle manner and are a
forum that people can ask questions and make comments without fear of
retribution.
Lisa Von Drasek, MLIS
Children's Librarian
Bank Street College of Education
School for Children Pre-K- 8
610 West 112th St
NY NY 10025
lisav@bnkst.edu
212 875 4452
Teaching pre-K-8
Teaching Editor/Children's Books
Best Children's Books of the Year Nick Jr.
>>> Barb Engvall <macbarb@CHARTER.NET> 09/16/04 11:22 PM >>>
Let me clarify that I am not trying to be judgmental in this issue, but
only trying to find out how others deal with this. The quote marks in
my original post were meant at true 'quotes.' These are things that
were said to me by others at school and I am only trying to assist by
researching how others deal with this. I know this is an extremely
serious issue but one we have never had to deal with before. Please do
not flame me as I am asking in true sincerity.
Barb
On Sep 16, 2004, at 6:57 PM, Barb Engvall wrote:
> Definitely Off Topic but very serious:
>
> We have a new kindergarten student with peanut allergy. Mother is
> apparently a nurse and may be over-reacting --- wants tables to be
> bleached after every snack (both AM and PM) and I don't know what
> else. Sending out lists of 'ok' foods isn't enough for her. The
general
> feeling is that she is asking for unreasonable accommodations. I have
> done some searching on the web and found some information but wanted
to
> poll the wide world of knowledge here and ask that if your district
has
> had to deal with this situation what you have done to deal with it.
> This is really escalating. Unfortunately our present superintendent
had
> a student in a previous district die from a peanut allergy reaction
and
> there is a feeling that this is coloring his sensibilities and
> consequently allowing this parent too much power.
>
> I can understand that this is very serious, with the potential to be
> fatal for some with this allergy, but how can a class/school exist if
> you have to deal with this. We do have other children with peanut
> allergies in the building but they are 'being more reasonable'.
>
> Thanks for any help you can provide. Please reply to me directly.
>
> Barb Engvall
>
> Teacher-Librarian
> macbarb@charter.net
>
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