Originally Posted by
Lord Ash
It has been a while!
Thought I would share a recent doozy that would make people shake their heads!
Okay; fourth grade teacher has a girl in her class that has a TERRIBLE nut allergy. All sorts of nuts, and death-is-a-possibility sort of serious.
So, the teacher sends a nice email to all the parents, asking that, because of a very serious allergy in the class, parents please avoid sending their child to school with a snack for snack time that has nuts in it, and thank you all so much for your understanding.
Stinks for those who like peanut butter, but still, better than a dead kid!
So, this one father writes this FEROCIOUS email back! "You don't make the rules for my kid!" and "You are trying to infringe on my kids civil rights!" and "I don't have to listen to your stupid rules, I can send my kid with whatever snack I want!" Keep in mind, this father had to be escorted out of the school by the police a few years back after coming in and threatening a teacher.
The father then tries to get the other parents riled up, and gets one mother (who is already known to be a bit of a nutjob) who also writes a nasty email, this time to the teacher AND the principal, and then promptly sends her son, who sits DIRECTLY across from the girl with the allergy, in the very next day with a snack of...?
Pistachio nuts.
The girl with the allergy promptly has a panic attack as she sees death in a little plastic baggie directly opposite her and goes to the nurse.
And what does the administration do?
Agrees with the crazy dad, because they don't want a huge fight over snacks. Now the girl with the allergy has to go to the nurses office for snacktime.
*sigh*
It blows me away when parents act like selfish children, and when on top of that a school administration doesn't back their teachers up. I would have simply emailed all the parents saying "Mr. So and So recently emailed me about no-nut-snacks being a violation of his son's civil rights, so in order to avoid violating any civil rights there will be no snack in this classroom. Please be sure your child has a nutritious meal in the morning and a healthy, filling lunch. Thank you!."