Parents in Volusia County, Florida (it's always Florida, it seems) are picketing outside an elementary school that recently instituted several regulations to protect a six-year-old student who has a serious peanut allergy. Among the new regulations: Pupils must wash their hands before and after lunch. Some parents apparently see such rules as an infringement on their kids' rights and have thus?decided to fashion cardboard protest signs and wave them at cars before and after classes. This story is definitely weird. What's even weirder, though, is that certain CNN news anchors spend time debating it (?Another part of this story I think is really compelling . . .?). It's like an Onion News Network parody that is, well, reality.
?Liam Julian, Bernard Lee Schwartz Policy Fellow