30 Local H.S Students banned from graduation for prank.

[sdifox]

people still go to high school graduation ceremony?

I didn't even go to my university one.

 

[Anubis]

we had to go or they wouldent give us our diploma

 

[ShawnD1]

Yes.

Now you're one of the Liberal Elite because you assume I should have all the money required to replace my entire wardrobe.

 

[T_Yamamoto]

Better reason that riding their bikes to school

 

[waggy]

the kids were stupid. anytime it cost money fro the school to fix/clean or risk other's you should be suspended and banned.

I have no sympathy for them.

and yes peanut allergies can be that bad

 

[D1gger]

Yes, if they contact it. Not if they are in the same room as it.

There has never been a case of someone dying because they were in the same room as peanut butter.

Peanut dust, maybe, but not peanut butter.

My son has a severe peanut allergy. I agree, being in the same room as peanut butter is not likely to cause him a reaction, but skin contact can. Our allergy specialist said he has had cases where someone was putting peanut butter on toast and the warm fumes from the toast caused their sibling to have an asthma attack. I don't know if that is psychosomatic, but peanut allergies are very real for some people.

Beyond that, this was no prank the kids pulled, it was vandalism, pure and simple.

 

[Imp]

One of my friends is allergic to cotton. Should we ban all schools from allowing kids to wear cotton clothes? Pretty much all of my clothes are cotton.

One of the, if not the, most common garment materials vs one food ingredient that can easily be avoided...

 

[D1gger]

There is no record of any severe reaction to peanuts that wasn't due to ingestion. You must actually eat the peanuts for it to be a danger to you.

Would you consider this ingestion?

SAGUENAY, Quebec — A 15-year-old girl with a peanut allergy died after kissing her boyfriend, who had just eaten a peanut butter snack, hospital officials said Monday.
Christina Desforges died in a Quebec hospital Wednesday after doctors were unable to treat her allergic reaction to the kiss the previous weekend.

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EDIT UPDATE:

Whoops, looks like it wasn't peanuts after all:

A coroner in Quebec says a severe asthma attack, not a peanut-contaminated kiss, killed a 15-year-old girl in an incident that made headlines around the world last November.

Christina Desforges died in Saguenay of asthma-linked respiratory failure, coroner Michel Miron said Thursday.

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[DCal430]

Would you consider this ingestion?



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If you followed up on that story you would learn she actually died from an Asthma attack and not peanut allergy.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2006/05/11/asthma-death.html

 

[D1gger]

If you followed up on that story you would learn she actually died from an Asthma attack and not peanut allergy.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2006/05/11/asthma-death.html

You're right, I should have scrolled farther down the page to see the follow up story. My initial post has been updated.

 

[blinky8225]

Because peanut butter is smeared on a wall!?!?

If you are so allergic to a common food that you can die from being in proximity to it, you should just end yourself or move away from society.

Actually, some people question whether peanuts should be considered 'food' at all. If it wasn't for our good friends at the USDA and government subsidies, consumption of peanuts would probably be very rare. They have only been regularly consumed for the past 100 years, a relatively short time frame in the total span of human history. Thus, one could argue that eating peanuts is very unnatural, which possibly explains why allergies are so common.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut#U.S._Department_of_Agriculture_.28USDA.29_program

 

[AMDZen]

Because peanut butter is smeared on a wall!?!?

If you are so allergic to a common food that you can die from being in proximity to it, you should just end yourself or move away from society.

Agreed.

Its called natural selection.

 

[blinky8225]

Agreed.

Its called natural selection.

See above post. If it weren't for government intervention, peanuts would not be a common food.

 

[AMDZen]

See above post. If it weren't for government intervention, peanuts would not be a common food.

I don't really give a shit. Peanuts and peanut butter are awesome and everyone loves them. Anyone who is deathly allergic to anything needs to live a life of solitude because I don't give a fuck if I'm eating my Snickers and you die.

Schools these days and all their rules because of these few kids who are deathly allergic are stupid, those kids should be home schooled, end of story.

 

[KaOTiK]

See above post. If it weren't for government intervention, peanuts would not be a common food.

Forgot about the rest of the world? The US as a country is pretty damn young next to a lot of others.

 

[SirStev0]

The year before we graduated the class went wild and did stuff like that. Our class had a bunch of teacher's kids in it and they went all gestapo on us. Putting up cameras and stuff to make sure we didn't do anything fun.
Kinda knee jerk stuff.
It is graduation. Let them have fun. Sooner than they know it they will die inside and join the real world.

 

[waggy]

The year before we graduated the class went wild and did stuff like that. Our class had a bunch of teacher's kids in it and they went all gestapo on us. Putting up cameras and stuff to make sure we didn't do anything fun.
Kinda knee jerk stuff.
It is graduation. Let them have fun. Sooner than they know it they will die inside and join the real world.

having fun is great. costing the school (ie taxpayers) money is stupid and i have no trouble with them getting in trouble.

the kids that did a bicycle ride to school on the last day. that was great. spreading peanut butter on the walls? well that's something i expect out of 3 yr olds.

 

[jayzds]

Because peanut butter is smeared on a wall!?!?

If you are so allergic to a common food that you can die from being in proximity to it, you should just end yourself or move away from society.

Idiot of the day...
It's probably more common than you realize. I know two people with the same severe allergic reaction to penuts/penut butter.

 

[edro]

Nope. All someone did was bring a pbj sandwich. he didn't even go near the damn thing and he started convulsing. It was a pretty bad sight to see.

100% Bullshit.
Common sense and science tells you that peanut butter is not airborne, therefore it cannot cause an allergic reaction if you are in normal proximity to it.

If you stick your face into a jar and huff it, you might get a reaction.
Skin contact, yes. Airborne peanut dust in the lungs, yes.

Somebody eating a pb sandwich across the room is not going to cause any reaction.

 

[Howard]

There is no record of any severe reaction to peanuts that wasn't due to ingestion. You must actually eat the peanuts for it to be a danger to you.

Go back to North Korea

 

[1sikbITCH]

Yes, if they contact it. Not if they are in the same room as it.

There has never been a case of someone dying because they were in the same room as peanut butter.

Peanut dust, maybe, but not peanut butter.

You're missing the point. Now the parents of that allergic child are going to sue the city and the school for millions of dollars. The school has to try to protect itself from these idiots.

 

[AMDZen]

You're missing the point. Now the parents of that allergic child are going to sue the city and the school for millions of dollars. The school has to try to protect itself from these idiots.

And it should, by not allowing them to attend the school in the first place. Or put them in a special confined class like the special needs children and also force them to wear masks as opposed to forcing the rest of the school not to ever bring anything with peanuts to school

 

[ShawnD1]

See above post. If it weren't for government intervention, peanuts would not be a common food.

That's a pretty lame argument. You could say the same thing about eating meat. As hippies have pointed out, meat is an incredibly inefficient use of land, so it's not really a big part of most diets. UK's royal guards were called "beef eaters" because they had the luxury of a diet high in protein. I don't see many Brits (or Americans who decended from Brits) reacting badly to meat.

Turkey is a perfect example of something new. Turkeys are not native to Europe. The first settlers had never seen them before, yet there's no problem eating them.

 

[waggy]

And it should, by not allowing them to attend the school in the first place. Or put them in a special confined class like the special needs children and also force them to wear masks as opposed to forcing the rest of the school not to ever bring anything with peanuts to school

or we can try ot teach kids to not smear it all over the fucking walls/lockers/doors etc.

idiotic kids. i have no sympathy for them getting banned

 

[JEDIYoda]

Yes, if they contact it. Not if they are in the same room as it.

There has never been a case of someone dying because they were in the same room as peanut butter.

Peanut dust, maybe, but not peanut butter.

You really need to educate yourself before opening your mouth and inserting foot....