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In a message dated 12/3/99 2:14:56 AM, [email protected] writes:

<<Nice to meet you too, Carrie. I believe that Homeschooling is one of the

best ways to help kids with multiple allergies and/or sensitivities. In a

very real and important sense we can control their environment much more

than if they were in IS. >>

I'm really grateful for homeschooling, too. My son has asthma and pet
allergies, plus pretty mild food allergies. We've had the experience of
going to the emergency room from 2am to 6, and then having James be mostly
well, but exhausted. If he was enrolled in school, I have to wonder if the
school would hassle me for keeping him home to school to sleep the next day.

James is shy, having to tell the teacher he needs medicine and then go to the
school nurse to get it, when his breathing flares up, would be difficult for
him, especially in front of all the other kids. I'm happy to skip that.
(Around here schools are so freaked out about drugs I've heard that they
won't let kids carry their own inhalers. Yuck!)

Betsy