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Elf n Safety strike again!

Birthday cakes have been banned by a primary school because teachers "do not have time" to check ingredients for pupils with allergies.

The ruling was posted in a newsletter on the website of Norbreck Primary Academy in Blackpool.

Parents were told cakes taken into school would be "sent home uneaten".

Head teacher Karen McCarter wrote: "I hate to be a killjoy... there are many reasons for this, some of them serious."

She added: "We are not able to account for the ingredients in the cake, we could therefore unknowingly give a product to a child to which they are allergic.

"Even if we had a list of ingredients, in a busy school day, it is too much to expect teachers to read ingredient lists and then decide who can and who cannot eat the product."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-la ... e-35321915

I feel sorry for the kids of today, they will not know the freedom we had.

You can see why they have to do it.
Makes you wonder how people survived in the 50s

Generations survived before, I had an allergy and still do but I got through in one piece, think there are far more allergies in today's world.