OK so here is another one. I don't have much time since we are leaving town so here goes.
My son will be going to Viking this fall a public school for the first time. Back home he was going to go to a private school.
I noticed that they serve peanut butter two times a week. I freaked out when I saw that. Back home the private and public schools took out peanut products from their menus.
So I spoke for the food program and she assured me that he will be fine. We are going to met and set up a plan. I am still very worried. I don't want him to sit at a seperate table away from his friends. What if his best friends is eating peanut butter and he has to sit at another table. I don't want him eating lunch in his classroom either. He already has to be pulled up two times a week for speech.
An easy solution is to get rid of the peanut butter. She did say so many parents ask for it be added to the menu. I can see that since most parents find it easier to make a PB sandwich then a cooked meal but not in this home.
Some alternative they need to add would be sunflower butter and alternative to peanut butter to keep all the kids safe in the schools.
Also one more thing. What is Yorgurt and String Cheese for lunch. Are you insane. I know for a fact that my son will pick that since he doesn't really care for meat but I can't see serving that in my home or business as a meal.
Thanks for letting me vent.
Just so they don't start eating each other
This post really made me think. I have to admit, I've always been one that sort of rolled my eyes at the whole "peanut free school" idea. I didn't understand why the parents couldn't just teach the kid to not eat peanut butter. I guess I never thought about the kid having to sit at a different table or back in the classroom. I know from personal experience that anything that makes a kid stand out like that really can suck socially. So I guess going peanut free isn't so silly after all.
I did a little web searching and it looks like the whole district has the same menu, so sending him to a different elementary school wouldn't solve it. I don't have any school aged kids, so I don't know much about the system. Is there some place where you could complain?
Michelle
PS: Did you have a nice trip?
Yes I did have a great trip. Sent most of the time on the river.
I plan on going to the school board meeting to talk about the situation as well.
We also have a group meeting coming up on the 30th regaring this too.
They talked about going to soy or sunflower but she also added that the price has stopped them. What is more important save kids or paying more for soy?
Also they talked about taking it out altogether, which I do hope they do. They also brought up kids bringing in bag lunches with peanut butter. But I spoke with someone who is a parent at another school and they said they don't sit together with hot lunch kids.
I have thought about sending a bag lunch but I would love to have him a variety of foods rather than a bag lunch. I can't send chicken to lunch with him in a bag from home.
My thing is that I don't understand why they can't take it out and make it a peanut free school. I know they have it in because most parents feed their kid a PB sandwich instead of making a hot lunch, it is easier to make, faster, plus more and more kids are picky eaters and that is all that they eat. But that goes way back to parenting and shouldn't be left up to the school.
The school should feed the children a variety of lunches and keep all kids safe.
It seems like it would be easier to just not do PB&J sandwiches than switching to sunflower/soy. There's a lot of different kinds of food out there; doesn't seem like leaving the peanut filled ones off the menu would restrict their options that much. My toddler eats PB&J a lot because he's picky but I'm hoping by the time he gets to school he will eat a bit more of a variety. If schools are peanut free by then, he'll just have to deal with it.
So the hot lunch and bag lunch kids don't sit together? How strange. When I was a kid, it was a day by day thing. Some days I brought a lunch, some days I had a hot lunch. We all sat together. I guess things have changed in the last couple decades.
Good luck with your meetings!
Michelle
Sitting seperate things was at Evergreen. I am waiting for the school to call me back. I have a few questions about PTA, School Board Meetings, etc. I might have to call again.
Jessica
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