A lunch box favorite is on lockdown at Bonfield Grade School. And a Bonfield preschool student's allergy to peanuts is the source.
Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, a school lunchtime mainstay, will be closely monitored to avoid a potentially dangerous allergic reaction for the preschool student. The student is highly sensitive to the product, said Bonfield principal Dennis Pankey.
Pankey recently sent a letter to the parents of all 273 students at the pre-school through first-grade school asking for their help in this particularly sensitive yet not unusual situation. But it's the first time in Pankey's 25 years as a principal that he's faced with such a situation.
"We're trying to be proactive," Pankey said. "We certainly don't want a major problem."
While Pankey is not banning PB&J sandwiches, he is asking that parents who send snacks to school not send any that contain peanut-based products.
