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Originally posted by 33girl
It's up to the kid with the allergy to stay away from dangerous foods, not the rest of the class to "protect" her.
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I agree. But there's a difference between protecting her and being appropriately considerate around her. And responsibility to stay away from dangerous foods would seem to be a moot point when someone is smearing peanut butter on your face and dropping crackers with peanut butter on your hair.
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To reiterate, I'd like to know how much of a deal was made out of this - if the teacher went on and on about how they HAVE to be considerate, if the parents are hovering over her every minute, if the kids are no longer allowed to carry peanut butter just because of this girl, then I'm not surprised she was harassed. Don't set your child up to be the victim.
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Given that the kid had peanut butter crackers on him, I'm assuming the girl didn't keep others from eating peanut butter. I agree with don't set your child up to be the victim, but even so that doesn't excuse the boy's completely unacceptable behavior.
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but when something doubles by 50% in a year, I'm calling Munchausen by proxy in at least SOME of the cases.
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I'll agree, and I'll also say I suspect that there are some other things going on with the increase in allergies, including what KSig RC suggests.