AIBU to expect teacher to modify recipies for allergic child?

[alison222]

I have been dealing with this recipe by recipe as they come along.
I sent an e-mail to the teacher asking if they were cooking this week givne they have not had their preparation lesson where they are given the recipe this week due to inset day and asking for an alternative to pancakes for DS who is anaphalactic to eggs.
I get a reply back " yes they are cooking pancakes. Recipe on website" - EGGS in it.
So what would you do in my position?

I have left a message telling him that as an alternative DS will make staffordshire oatcakes, but since they take several hours sitting with the yeast in them, he will make the mix at home and cook them in the 40 min lesson at school.

AIBU to think that it is not my job as a parent to find safe alternatives if he is the teacher and chooses the recipies?

Surely if a child is so allergic that their life could be in danger, they would be excused cookery lessons - nobody needs to learn to cook at school that badly do they?
Maybe I'm being precious but if one of mine was that allergic, they wouldn't be in that classroom ever.
My pfb's friend has a serious peanut allergy, and when they were 12 some 15 year olds at their school pinned him down and forced peanuts into his mouth - they later said that "they wanted to find out if he would really die" - school age children can be utter twats and evil to boot, just because they don't think of the consequences when something seems like "a bit of a laugh" so there is no way I would allow my anaphylactic child in a room full of little darlings all equipped with something that could do that much damage. It is just not worth it.

Just wanted to say thanks for the oatcake recipe, I'm a stokie relocated down south and the stack I bring down whenever I visit my parents doesn't last very long... if an 11yo can cook them I have no excuse!! (and I've just had my last ones with cheese tomato and bacon for brekkie, and not going back to stoke till Xmas, so cosmic timing!) Thank you OP!!

Thanks for the recipe - presumably works OK with dried yeast, I'll give that a go sometime without the salt (wont taste quite as good but we've got used to it in normal pancakes, bread etc)

I use a packet of quick dried yeast. It works fine.
I may have to try some of the other suggestions now too.
Ds is doing his final lesson before being moved to another subject ( resistant materials, , whatever the correct word for sewing is, etc), so I won't have to worry about this now until next year......

I'm a little late to the thread, but kudos to your ds for making oatcakes. I grew up in Stoke & they were a staple of my diet.

Glad he enjoyed them and that the teacher eventually accommodated his needs.