My friend's high school does not permit lunches from home; they require religious or medical permission that they must have a specific diet, and have to be eaten in a separate room, and lunches are checked to ensure no peanuts/etc.
I guess I've finally become a hopeless cynic, my first reaction to that statement was that somebody in the school administration and somebody in the company supplying the food to the district probably have a tidy little financial arrangement propped up by the peanut allergy boogeyman.
Count me in. Someone is making money, whether it's a an external contract or just the school itself. For Christ's sake, parent said high school. What high school student can't handle their own peanut allergy? Oh my, what if 16 year old Timmy trades his turkey sandwich for a peanut butter and jelly? Won't someone think of the teenaged children! I can't believe a high school gets away with that shakedown, you'd think that would be illegal.
Where does that peanut allergy thing come from suddenly? When I was a kid no one had any allergies and now every other kid seems to due from a peanut.
It is caused by American parents not feeding their babies peanut butter like other cultures do.
Isn't the US basically the only country where peanut butter is even a thing? There are some others but not many. Mainly English and Dutch speaking countries, Indonesia and the Philippines.