May 14, 2018, Chicago Tribune: District 181 seeks consistency on food allergy management with new program http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/hinsdale/news/ct-dhd-food-allergies-tl-0517-story.html Proposed food allergy management program will be brought for approval Monday to the Hinsdale-Clarendon Hills Elementary District 181 Board in an effort to bring consistency to the district’s nine schools. Superintendent Don White said creating a food allergy policy for use district wide wasn’t addressed previously because it wasn’t brought up as a concern…. “It’s important that we do everything we can to be as prepared as possible for situations with food allergies because this really is life and death.” … Katsenes said statistically, 1 in every 13 people under age 18, nationally, have a food allergy, a statistic also noted by the American Academy of Allergy Asthma & Immunology. “That’s roughly two students in every classroom,” Katsenes said, noting that more than 200 students in the district have known food allergies and there were about five incidents in the past year for which an EpiPen was used on a student having an allergic reaction. School nurses in District 181 keep EpiPens on hand that have been prescribed for specific students along with undesignated epinephrine auto injectors for needed use. The most common allergies seen in district schools are to peanuts and tree nuts. …
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Childhood Lost
Children today are noticeably different from previous generations, and the proof is in the news coverage we see every day. This site shows you what’s happening in schools around the world. Children are increasingly disabled and chronically ill, and the education system has to accommodate them. Things we've long associated with autism, like sensory issues, repetitive behaviors, anxiety and lack of social skills, are now problems affecting mainstream students. Blame is predictably placed on bad parenting (otherwise known as trauma from home).
Addressing mental health needs is as important as academics for modern educators. This is an unrecognized disaster. The stories here are about children who can’t learn or behave like children have always been expected to. What childhood has become is a chilling portent for the future of mankind.
Anne Dachel, Media editor, Age of Autism
http://www.ageofautism.com/media/
(John Dachel, Tech. assist.)
What will happen in another 4 years? How can we go on like this? This is a national (and international) problem of monumental proportions. We have an entire new class of children who cannot be accommodated by the system: many are manifestly neurologically impaired. Meanwhile, the government and the medical profession sleep on regardless.
John Stone,
UK media editor, Age of Autism
The generation of American children born after 1990 are arguably the sickest generation in the history of our country.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
It seemed to me that with rising autism prevalence, you’d also see rising autism costs to society, and it turns out, the costs are catastrophic.
They calculated that in 2015 autism cost the United States $268 billion and they projected that if autism continues at its current rate, we’re looking at one trillion dollars a year in autism costs by 2025, so within five years.
Toby Rogers, PhD, Political economist
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