i personally think that would be discrimination. my daughter has terrible allergies, and when the dust and mildew, mold, whatever in the shcools kept her sick for months on end, the dr pulled her out of school, for sometimes 3 and 4 months at a time and the school was forced to send a teacher to the house, because dr told them the problem was something that could not be avoided and she had a right to an education.

All children have the right to a free and appropriate education, reguardless of disabilities. Having food allergies is no different, many children have life threatning conditions and are being educated in the public school system. I would place my focus on educating the school of the importance of awareness of each childs food allergies, what to do, how to prevent a disaster with a food allergy. Keeping a child at home due to food allergies, is not acceptable. As we know children need to socialize, learn from one another, and have normalcy to their lives. This is enabling a child from prospering , and gaining the tools needed to live in a society that is informed. I worry about these kiddo's with food allergies, I feel that when they become adults, they may fear the outside world of their homes'. Will sheltering them from public school education prevent them from harmful food allergy exposure? Why not place the focus, on the need to educate and inform the schools of their food allergy needs, keeping a child home may save one , but many parents' send their children to school each day and they have food allergies, I would reccommend that you get some input from those parents' as well. How do they address their childs' needs in the public school setting? How well has the school worked in efforts to prevent a child from eating foods containing allergants? Ultimately, parents must advocate for their child's diatery needs in the public school system and as well their safety.

AS the article states, the school for 5 years under another principal have a "unofficial" school policy of checking bown bag linches and snacks and the first year under another principal this 5 minute daily act was discontinued. WE - all of us parents are capable of making a mistake and packing the wrong item. This was an additional safeguard that was discontinued. It literall took 5 minutes of classroom time a day. Did you all see the article? It's is posted in the "food allergy group of DS"

wnet there , posted my oppinion, hope it helps, don't really know how it feels to fear food allergies, Alex has none, yet I just talked to my sister and her d/d has asthma severly, my sister is PG and was having complications last night, she went to the ER, and told me about a 12 yr. old girl who was bening denied immediate medical treatment , she could not breathe, was weezing, and passed out, they had to do CPR right there! She left, she was so upset. So I can relate to a child not getting adquete air flow and how severe the correlation can be. I think we , as a community should take food allergies just as serious as any other health condition, afterall it will save a life, and as I posted in food allergies community : How do you measure that?????

http://www.leakygut.co.uk/testing.htm

I found this link as a result to the diet post, but in the site they talk about food allergy testing.
We seem to always have someone in the class with some diet requirement, whether it was gen ed or special ed. Why should a child be denied the right to bring peanut butter for himself in his own lunch box, just because some other kid can't eat it? I can understand the worry if they are pre school and the teacher gives out snacks, but a big kid should know to eat his own food, especially if he has a condition. I don't get it? If the needs of a student are not in consideration of education by of diet and hygiene why is it upto the school to regulate? If the building is making kids sick, that's another issue. If the teacher needs to be aware of the childs food allergy, then the nurse needs to regulate the lunch for the kid like medication.

An alternative to Homeschooling is HomeBound Schooling.
When DD2 was unable to attend due to a car accident the school system sent a teacher out to the house for one-on-one for a full year.

Check the policy for number of medically excused absenses. At a certain point our School District is required to to HomeBound.

my school had to bann peanut butter sandwiches for one kid. so they will do that