<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> My grandson has CD, soy intolerance, and severe, severe peanut allergy. He cannot even be in a room where peanuts are being served or touch a peanut. He has just started Kindergarten and the teacher was very understanding on the interview before school started. Now a few days later she informs my daughter that she will be doing some projects that include using M & M's (which contain peanut and soy fragments) and will be making Peanut Pumpkin Cookies with the children. These projects will both last one week. The teacher said that she could not deprive the rest of the class the opportunity to do these projects and that my daughter should keep my grandson home from school if he could not participate during those weeks. My daughter brought the teacher some GF chocolate chip cookies with passover chips we froze last spring. (Yummy to everyone who tasted them) She explained that with a little imagination all the projects could be adjusted. We are both teachers and know that lessons must often be changed to fit the occasion. The teacher got really cold at the suggestion that she adjust the plan and again said that she saw no reason to deprive others. Then there was a problem with the bus. He lives on a farm and the ride in the country can take up to l 1/2 hours on the bus. She needs to have the bus driver carry his epi-pen in case another student is eating peanut butter crackers on the way home. Often parent give kids snack on long rides. The school is refusing, as the bus driver would have to be trained. I know that this is more than just CD, but I was wondering if anyone else has had legal problems with school systems in regard to protecting the life and happiness of children too young to protect themselves. Two years ago a grandmother came to school in a nearby district on a party day and convinced a child in Kindergarten that she had made cookies herself and that it was all right to eat them. He refused several times, but she was persistent. The child died 40 minutes later. CD part plays a lesser immediate role to peanut allergy which puts him into anaphylactic shock, but perhaps someone has had a similar experience and knows where to go for legal advice since the school is insensitive to the parent and child. Thanks for any help you can give us. Carol in NJ