Seems, however, that *some* colleges and universities are BANNING food or drink of ANY kind in any/all classrooms . . . though, I'm sure, some will cheat or ignore policy. (Exception is water allowed in some classrooms . . . )

Wish we had a list of those colleges / universities handy. ((Is there a dedicated thread for just this??))

I seem to recall Arizona State was one?  (From old discussions . . . )

You may want to plan to get FRESH documentation from your allergist in preparation for the fall.

We've had to provide it for DD's campus.  (Twice.)

Also encourage your DS to self-advocate with individual teachers-- because that is precisely the situation that he will be encountering.

Also-- if nobody says anything (as in, the faculty member teaching, and mostly they WON'T want to) expect that about half of your DS' classmates in anything but biology/chemistry/microbiology lab coursework will be EATING periodically and at random.  Everywhere.

Basically it ended up being about whether we wanted to keep plan or have him declassified. Apparently some parents want to declassify if child wants to go in military and this would hinder them. So no changes and plan will be sent to college. Thanks for asking

How did things go?

Ugh, I had seen something about that. Even if it doesn't happen during his lab, what if they do it in lab before him.

DS' chemistry class one year had a lab where they heated peanuts.  I bet it's not an uncommon thing.

No meal plan. He will possibly eat on campus occasionally. He will be in labs, physics major, wondered about that as well.

Mmmm. Most of the concerns I've seen center around on campus living. It would be interesting to know how CM's DD's 504 changed, since that situation has some similarities to yours.

I would wonder about labs.  I know places for studying and working in groups have also been an issue.

So he isn't required to get a meal plan, right? Since he is living at home. 

Home

He's living on campus or at home?

Meeting tomorrow. If anyone can think of anything different I need added specifically for college that we don't have now, I would greatly appreciate it!

Yeah, my daughter's year will see a huge number of kids graduating HS with food allergies. When she was in first grade they put nearly all the allergy kids in the same class (two kids managed to escape that fate through parental intervention).  There were probably 20 or so kids out of 150/175 that have food allergies; that was at one ES in one grade. And that was only of the kids whose parents had notified the school of the child's allergy. Three ESs feed my DD's MS, so I would imagine that there are about 60 kids out of a class of 330-350 with food allergies.

That was the image I had in my head when I typed that, but I was too tired to think of the word. It wouldn't come to me. Lol.

Quote from: Macabre on March 15, 2015, 05:31:39 PM
And the experience of at least two members (both new I think) with freshmen bears that out. 

Colleges will see a sharp increase in students with FAs next year. And then more the next year.  And then the flood will hit them.

Yup!!  I've been using the analogy of a tsunami . . . our kids are the little wave that precedes and warns of impending, colossal wave.

Quote from: ninjaroll on March 15, 2015, 06:16:22 PM
Public safety has nothing to do with programs.  The BOT has more to do with campus police (including a move to armed, sworn force as many campuses are) than faculty or business affairs staff.

Understood, was mentioning in context of increasing numbers of fa students they are seeing.