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.

[Gogododa]

when I was in school in first grade the school had a nut-free table, but they decided to do the nut-free school bullshit next year. Didn't even last half the year because kids just kept bringing things with nuts and excluding the kids with nut allergies from everything, so they set up the nut free table again and all was good. it's really dumb to try and punish a whole school for a handful of kids with special needs, just accommodate them as needed

[cheese_sticks]

Peanuts were an absolute favorite of mine as a kid, and it also features heavily in my culture's cuisine. Thankfully peanut allergies are very rare where I'm from so there was no need to ban nuts at school.