So my kids have attened the same school for 5 years now, and yesterday they bring home a letter saying please dont send your kids to school with peanut butter sandwiches or ANY nut products! Apparently there are some allergic kids at the school. I know this can be grave and Im trying not to be insensitve, BUT....what happens when these kids go off to middle/high school? There are no restrictions at those schools? What about in the real world? My sons love peanut butter and nut products. For some families this is a affordable sandwich that is always around! Im trying to find out if this is average or just somthing ridiculous! Thanks!

this is becomming more average on a regular basis. many of people who are allergic to peanuts can DIE from a reaction. my son almost died when a drip of rocky road ice cream landed on his skin. the bulk schools will just have a "peanut free zone" in the cafateria, but more and more, the schools do not want to bear the risk of a grave reaction that can be avoioded - especially since the bulk schools do not have a full time nurse on the premesis every day.

i go to a "no nut" school and i don't mind. who cares if peanut butter sandwiches are affordable, it isn't worth endangering the childs life.

My son is in the 6th grade and has had a classmate with a severe peanut allergy since preschool. Yes it's a pain because you dont realize how a lot snacks have nuts or have been manufactured in plants where nuts are handled and it says that on the pkgs too. And the easiest sandwich to pack is peanut butter. But it could kill this child if he even has it on his hands after lunch and takes it out to the playground and touches something that this boy touches after him and its very grave and the only technique to prevent is not to enable it in the school.

this is no laughing matter when they are older maybe they will beable to not do this but they are trying at their level to aid someone.