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Originally Posted by SarahJayn
Well, if that were true, every child in the nation with allergies would have a 504 or I.E.P. and they don't. Those documents, like I said before and to the best of my knowledge, are only created for specific children to adress specific school-related issues. For example, we have a selective mute at our school. I happen to know she's allergic to peanuts. On her 504, it says she's a selective mute. That's because children are sometimes assessed orally. Since she can't speak due to her being a selective mute, the assessment needs to be modified. It doesn't say she's allergic to peanuts because eatting peanuts isn't part of the curriculum or assessment plan. That's on her emergency card. It is national law that all allergies be documented, but I don't think its necessarily written that its on a 504 or IEP. I know - for a fact - that its not done that way in our county.
Also, I know she didn't say that, but the reality is that's how most parents celebrate birthdays in school. To say that the whole class can't do that because of one child - - I don't think that's "common courtesy." I think, like I said before that if you feel strongly, join your P.T.A., get involved, and find out if other people feel that way. If not, then tell your kid they can't have it. It's your decision to dictate what your child eats, not how the class holds celebrations. I might add that when someone brings in cupcakes to my class, they usually bring one for me, the teacher. I'm vegan. I don't eat cupcakes. I don't have one. When I was little, my teacher had a pizza party - - all the pizza was pepporoni. I was a vegatarian then. You know what I did? I didn't eat it and my classmates did. I know what its like to be the "odd kid out," but I think I'm better off there than the "kid whose mom made it impossible to have cupcakes in class." |
If the child comes with an epi-pen then they must have a 504 at the very least to protect them. 504's are often used as student health plans and just because your district doesn't does things like there supposed to doesn't make it right. Perhaps your district is one of the ones I hear POFAKs complaining about. As for expecting a child to chose not to eat something that's ridiculous, my dd is 5, if I'm there she will ask if its ok, if I'm not more then once she has eaten an item because of peer pressure or because the teacher gave it to her she assumed it was safe because why would her teacher want to hurt her? There's a huge difference between choosing not to eat pizza because your a veggie and eating the cupcake and DYING because the mom who made it didn't know it contained milk so didn't tell the teacher because most people actually have no clue what's in the food they cook if there using box mixes and such. I can tell you every ingredient of every meal we eat and where it came from, I rarely meet someone else that aware. Schools feed kids enough crap in the cafeteria, they don't need it in the class room as well. I know I volunteered to pay for a shopping spree though OTC for my dd's kindy class but the teacher still preferred to buy the crap junk food and exclude my kiddo or just give it to her and let me deal with a sick kid as a result. Thankfully her preschool teacher was wonderful and had several kids with allergies in the class so had a rule that if EVERYONE couldn't have it no one could and the kids didn't care they missed cupcakes and they still had wonderful fun b-day parties that included EVERYONE and no one was left feeling bad because they were excluded.
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