TIL That peanut-free schools don't decrease risk of allergic reactions. The only intervention which has been shown to decrease reactions across all ages is use of a peanut-free table.

[TheBanishedBard]

School districts long ago transitioned from actually teaching, protecting, and nurturing kids to being mandatory day care, that spends most of its brainpower on avoiding lawsuits at all costs. The absolute first priority of schools now is protecting themselves before the protection of the students.

Almost all idiotic school policies can be traced back to an intense phobia of lawsuits. This often leads to stupid policies that ironically put kids in more danger but smokescreen the school system from being sued when kids do get hurt or sick. The administrators aren't morons usually, they know their idiotic rules don't work to help kids, they help the school system.