Her father is suing.
She has a nut allergy and ate baklava? Because someone told her it didn’t have nuts in it? IT’S MADE OF NUTS!!! Did she eat it with her eyes closed?
She didn’t have an epi pen? She didn’t go to the school nurse? Checked out of school and took a walk instead? What? What?
I don’t have allergies, so someone please help me make sense of this. How could a seventeen year old with nut allergies eat baklava and head to CVS for some Benadryl afterwards?
Isn’t that an unusually bad series of decisions? Darwin Award level? I mean, if it wasn’t this, she might have died trying to dry her hair in the microwave.
Why is it so important for you for it to be her fault and only hers? If it’s so obvious that it’s made of nuts why would the person who gave it to her say it wasn’t? If it’s so stupid to leave that no rational human being would ever consider it why would the school let her do it?
You’re talking about a minor. If it was so stupid for her to do this stuff, then every other person and adult involved was at least as stupid or worse.
Like, yeah, if you have a life threatening allergy you should be appropriately cautious. Schools also should never have “just let them leave” to be anywhere near their list of medical emergency responses to begin with. And you shouldn’t feed someone with food allergies something if you aren’t positive what the ingredients are. Multiple people can do things wrong in a way that results in someone’s death.
It isn’t her fault at all, I agree. She was a teenager, and teenagers are quite literally ignorant. They lack the life experience necessary to make wiser choices.
But where were the parents in all this? If I had a child with a life-threatening allergy, I GUARANTEE you that child would be carrying an epi-pen (or at least Benadryl if money is tight) 24×7. I’d also have a card made with strict steps to follow should there be accidental exposure, with instructions for my child on one side and instructions for third-parties on the other. (I’d also make damned sure that they learn to recognize chopped nuts in food where they’re highly visible! It’s ludicrous to look at a baklava and ask “are there nuts in this” when there’s very visible chopped nuts in them. Again the parents failed their daughter and she paid the price for it.)
The parents, as far as I’m concerned, failed their daughter and are now trying to point fingers at the school board when it was their lackadaisical handling that led to their daughter’s death.