@ Beach Runner, my daughter is only 2, but because of the severity of her allergy she will not attend preschool or Elementary school. I will be homeschooling her. I live "in the country" and they're not very knowledgeable out here on food allergies. They don't ban it at the school my 5 year old will be attending in the fall. They only have a "peanut free table" in the lunchroom, which is not adequate to those children who are allergic to the airborne peanut particles. Plus I think it is really sad to sit a child at the "peanut free table" while all the other children sit together. When I went to tour the school last month for my 5 year old (who has know known food allergies) I saw that they had a snack that went around to all the classrooms in the afternoon and there were butterfingers and plenty of other peanut containing products on it. I asked about the children with the peanut allergies and how the snack cart was handles and they said it was up to the teacher of each particular classroom. they might sit the peanut allergic child across the room from the kids eating butterfingers and such. In the neighboring county that I grew up in there are actual nut-free schools that make sure products that contain even traces are not brought in. I would love to send my daughter there, but it is a half hour sucaway and is a private school. I have heard of other public schools in the neighboring county banning the PB, but I think it depends on the school and what they want to do.