Banning Bananas

[in a mo]

I read in the Plymouth Herald that a local councillor,on the Plymouth City Council Vivien Pengelly wants to hold an investigation into a situation at Stoke Damerell Primary School in the city ,where Bananas have been banned ,the reason being is that a teacher has a life threatning allergy to them ,this includes coming into direct contact with them,Cllr Pengelly has been quoted as saying that "she thought that banning Bananas was a little over the top"and that "primary school children should be able to self manage the situation" Would the councillor feel the same if it was a child who had a life threatning allergy,I do not .
What do members of the board think.
Do you have an opinion Thank you

[No,Knowledge]

yes good idea, in fact banning Salla is a great idea.

[mccfluff]

i would of thought if you had a life threatening allergy to banannas you'd be pretty bl00dy good at 'self managing' the situation yourself.

ok ban them from that particular classroom, but the whole schools got to be a bit OTT

[DanDaDemon]

Would'nt it have been easier to ban the teacher instead seeing that bananas were the majority?

[Philtaz]

I agree with Dan.

Sounds to me like the teacher needs a career change. Librarian or something similar would seem appropriate.

[in a mo]

So you have never seen a Banana in a library ,where else would they go to study?

[cully]

I don't believe this is something that has to be "managed" by anybody but the person who has the allergy. There are, after all, lots of things people can be allergic to without anybody around them knowing. I know a woman who is allergic to nuts to the extent that she has an attack if she enters a room where there are nuts. So, she has learned to work around the problem with the help of others. Her husband does the groceries shopping, for example, and when invited to parties she has a nut free room to herself where friends enter to be with her etc. It can be done without taking draconian measures to the detriment of the rest of the population. In this case, the obvious answer is the children are told/learn never to take bananas into a room/classroom where that teacher is due to take class.

[DanDaDemon]

Whats next,banning pollen because someone suffers from hayfever? Where will this madness all end?

[oldgrape]

when i was at primary school i was in the netball team and we got to some final but could not go to the other school to compete as it had a butterflt enclosure and the head mistress was scared of them

[Verix]

"Whats next,banning pollen because someone suffers from hayfever? Where will this madness all end?"

How many people do you know with life threatening hayfever?

[DanDaDemon]

32.

[DaisyMae]

Bananas are not a particularly useful food for children in that they contain rather too much sugar, they can very easily do without them and in this instance they can learn a useful lesson about the majority caring for the minority. I am pleased that this teacher who has a life threatening problem has not had her livelihood taken from her as a result.

[DanDaDemon]

I disagree with you daisy,especially if this is your child...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?vuP4k1imPy54&feature=channel

WTF?

[Philtaz]

DaisyMae

You might want to reconsider your post regarding the health benefits of bananas.

http://www.essortment.com/all/healthbananas_rj yz.htm

[sassy53]

I work at a school wher we have banned tuck or lunchboxes with anything like peanut better or nuts in them as we have two children who are so allergic that if they touch another child who has just eaten them and therefore some residue maybe on their hands and this is how transference occurs, they have anaphalatic shock and have to be given an adrenalin injection within 3 minutes. All the children are more than happy to comply with this as are all the parents taking the view , in their words 'what if it was one of our children'. I should point out that these children are between the ages of 3 and 11 and 'managing the situation' is not necessarily an appropriate response. An adult may be able to circumvent contact but some allergies are extremely dangerous and life threatening and just the slightest contact can expose someone. To compare this to hay fever is somewhat crass I feel.