Has anyone on here done this in their schools? I HATE that we say we are a "Nut Free" school. We aren't. It's impossible. Yes, we post signs all over the place, but we still, almost daily find kids eating the reese's cup that came in their lunchable, or sneaking bites of a PBJ at lunch and claiming it is soy butter. I also see teachers eating nuts ALL.THE.TIME! I just walked into a classroom and the teacher was standing eating a bag of almonds and claims she had "no idea" we were 100% nut free in the building (she is new this year) We have a sign on the front door of the school, and every possible entrance to each floor.
Anyway, I feel strongly that saying "Nut Free" gives a false sense of security to everyone and would really like to push us to move towards being "Nut Aware" instead. I am curious since that is moving in the less stringent direction, if anyone has done that and how you went about it, and how that looks in your school and at lunch.
Currently we have 488 kids, K-3. About 122 per grade. They eat lunch in four shifts, in the cafeteria, one grade at a time. Kids either eat lunch from home or take a school lunch. Our vendor is a nut free kitchen. Kids sit at tables by class, 2 large tables per class of about 25 students.
Next year, which is when I want to roll this out, we will have >1,000 students in a new building, K-8. The cafeteria there is much bigger and I have no idea how lunches will be handled yet. They claim to be nut free at that campus as well but the nurse there tells me she sees the same stuff I see.
We have a sign on the front door of the school, and every possible entrance to each floor.