Nates Butt Farm

Another rant and rave about something the Space Invader’s school does that I don’t like. Not nuts, no buts.

Flash back to right after parent night when Sergeant is reading the welcome to K-grade packet to me:

Serg: Her teachers are Mrs. A and Mrs. B..
Me: What do you mean “teachers”?
Serg: I guess they share teachers
Me: Oh, so we are sending her to a Commie Kindergarten
Serg: (knows how I am…) Don’t start
Silence while he is reading and I am thinking how much I don’t care for this kindergarten nonsense and it hasn’t even started.
Serg: Also, I guess a kid in her class has a peanut allergy so we can’t send peanut products to school
Me:

 

 

 

 

 

About a week later, thinking I am sneaker than Lenin, I send her to lunch with ALMONDbutter squished between two apple slices (because she is the only five year old I know who doesn’t like bread [even without crust]). Next day, there is a red slip in her backpack reminding parents not to pack ANY NUT products because there is ONE kid in her class allergic to not only peanuts now, but all nuts apparently.

This makes me so frustrated! For parents of Space Invaders who are not allergic to nuts, peanut and almond butter are main sources of SI approved protein and other essential nutrients. And call me insensitive and irrational, but if there is only one child who is allergic, why can’t the teacher watch that kid during break time to make sure he/she is not eating other children’s snacks! But then I remember she goes to Commie Kgrade, and the teachers probably make the kids share their snacks with everyone.

Over time I slightly got over the fact that I cannot utilize a staple of child lunch and snack making….until…. I got the permission slip. I remember going on field trips when I was a kid, how much I loved them, so I was excited for her to go on her first field trip. The fieldtrip, is no kidding, to Bates Nut Farm.  Double K-Boom!

Message: You cannot pack your child nutritional nut products for snack or lunch because ONE kid is allergic, but, we will be taking to whole class to a farm that produces NUTS!!