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You have all brought up a lot of legitimate points on both sides of the argument. Part of my question is .. how do you enforce it? My daughter had a peanut reaction from eating a cashew that we didn't know was cooked in peanut oil. In the south, I was lucky I read a bag of chips for ingredients, because down there, that brand was cooked in peanut oil. Many Chinese restaurants cook with peanut oil. What if you sent in leftover almond chicken and it had been cooked in peanut oil? Expecting all 300 or 400 families in a school to be this vigilant is unrealistic. My main reason for saying I'd get homeschooling for my child in that severe of a situation would be for my own child's protection, not just for the convenience of the rest of the school. There are so many products with peanuts in them, that the likelihood that no child (or adult) in that school has a peanut product every single day is slim to none. There is only one type of Girl Scout cookie (shortbread ones) that don't say "May contain traces of peanut products". I talked to my co-worker with the son has severe reactions about it today and she said she wouldn't dream of expecting every single family in the school to read every label as she has to do.
Dee
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