Okay I'm going to try again. I posted a long post and my protector
didn't like it. So its gone. heehee.

But it was very interesting, see the first child in our elementary that
had this allergy wasn't just allergic to eating it, he had a allergy to
touch too. Not sure if this is normal. But our kids couldn't have it
anywhere, it couldn't be on the seats of the rooms, in the gym,
or even on the stairs, anywhere the child might go. So it had to be
a complete no peanut thing. So when it came to ball games for
our 5th and 6th grade kids, we had a different situation, we had to
request that all kids coming into our building not bring peanuts into
our building either. And that they honor our request to not bring,
it into the locker rooms, or to not bring in candy bars or anything
else with peanuts or the oils. The really interesting thing though
was that when we went to other schools in our own district. We
didn't have the right really to request that they not have peanut
candy either, or that they have the same rules as us. But because
it was such a big issue for our one child, who happened to not
be of the age, or have a brother or sister who was of the age that
he would be in these schools during the games. It would matter.

But the schools pto's who did the concession stands chose to honor
the child by being peanut free in their concession stands because of
our student. It really told our kids and our parents who had fought
the issue how important it was to the other parents in the other schools
too.

And it was a really awesome way to show how much others cared.

And now all 5 of our elementaries, which as of November 1st, its now
4 elementaries, because 2 of them were joined together because of
consolidation.

And they are now asking what will happen when one of these kids
goes to the jr/sr high.

Donna