NYC Government Crack Down on Bake Sales
by PubliusUnfortunately, items like this don’t really surprise us anymore:
There shall be no cupcakes. No chocolate cake and no carrot cake. According to New York City’s latest regulations, not even zucchini bread makes the cut.
In an effort to limit how much sugar and fat students put in their bellies at school, the Education Department has effectively banned most bake sales, the lucrative if not quite healthy fund-raising tool for generations of teams and clubs.
The change is part of a new wellness policy that also limits what can be sold in vending machines and student-run stores, which use profits to help finance activities like pep rallies and proms. The elaborate rules were outlined in a three-page memo issued at the end of June, but in the new school year, principals and parents are just beginning to, well, digest them.
Read the whole dreadful thing here. Special pull quote:
“Schools are supposed to be a place where we establish a model environment, and the last thing kids need is an extra source of pointless calories.”
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I agree with limiting sales in the cafeteria and vending machines, put going after fund raising outside of the school day is going too far. On the bright side, if Mom's aren't spending so much time baking, perhaps they will spend more time at school board and PTA meetings raising hell about the curriculum. In the end this could be a very good thing.
I agree with limiting sales in the cafeteria and vending machines, but going after fund raising outside of the school day is going too far. On the bright side, if Mom's aren't spending so much time baking, perhaps they will spend more time at school board and PTA meetings raising hell about the curriculum. In the end this could be a very good thing.
How are Public Schools going to teach children how to eat correctly and care for their bodies? They can't even teach the little urchins to read and write.
Whats next? Are they going to outlaw Bingo at all the Catholic Churches? That'll win them some points if they take Grannies bingo card away from her. Oh, wait, Grannie is dead, they smothered her with a pillow and threw her under the Obamamobile.
Quite frankly, people ought to soon be getting tire of this nonsense.
“Schools are supposed to be a place where we establish a model environment,"
Who, gets to decide what a model environment "is", is?
After reading Micheal Yon's updates from Afghanistan regarding the lack of proper equipment over ther, I've been tempted to try out the suggestion posed by that annoying bumper sticker:
"What if Schools got all the funding they needed and the military had to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber."
There's a brand new market for bake sales, I hear, and they need helicopters Over There.
Don't worry, pep rallies and proms will now be funded by the government. The only thing kids will need to learn in school is how to write a grant application.
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Is this the same communist industry that is now preventing kids from riding a bike to school?
I know for a fact, the breakfast many ghetto kids eat is a soda and candy bar on the way to school. How about controlling them an hour before school? One of our retired pastors volunteers at a school. One day he counted over 90% of the milk cartons were tossed unopened and almost that many pieces of fruit where tossed.
They want to propagandize the kiddies without anyone else.
Homemade goodies in schools only encroach upon the profits that pre-packaged snack companies stand to make from schoolkids. Now, the schools (esp. here in NC) tell you to limit snacks to 100 calories, and oh so conveniently have many companies provided straight-off-the-shelf options for you. . .
See this website for a ton of examples of what you can buy in lieu of preparing your children homemade nutritious snacks:
http://shopping.netsuite.com/s.nl/c.853092/sc.15/...
Everytime I send my kids to school with a home prepared snack, the teacher inevitably sends home complaints that my provisions aren't in keeping with the guidelines. Folks, I'm talking about healthy stuff like homemade trail mix of sunflower seeds, raisins, pretzels, nuts (no classroom allergies), cheerios with chocolate chips.
It's nonsense indeed. I won't even go into the "appropriate water bottles" guidelines that my children's teachers have.
Mmm, mmm, mmm
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The nanny state. We don't need any brains at all, just do as they say.
I hope the grownups start to run this country again some day, or else Texas pulls out so we can be adults there.
Please sign our petition, to start the Corruption Elimination Act. We have waited far to long for them to act.
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I sure am glad I don't live in New York. Either the govt owns that town or the citizens are a bunch of pushovers.
NYC government has nothing else better to do than police bake sales in schools? Geez Louise, government is getting way out of hand!
Government? Schools? Indoctrination? Songs? Obama?
"“But the most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly and with unflagging attention. It must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over. Here, as so often in this world, persistence is the first and most important requirement for success.”
~Adolph Hitler~
Mein Kampf, Chapter Six, opening quoye.
Government? Schools? Indoctrination? Songs? Obama?
"“But the most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly and with unflagging attention. It must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over. Here, as so often in this world, persistence is the first and most important requirement for success.”
~Adolph Hitler~
Mein Kampf, Chapter Six, opening quote.
Thanks Mom!
The same people who decide what a model climate is.
First New York, then the nation. Soon, they'll want to "nationalize" everyone's child. Who needs parents when they have the government.
Interference of commerce?
It is all about destroying our very way of life and total control. The wacky lefts agenda is right there to see if you care to fully open your eyes. They must be stopped.
It is all about destroying our very way of life and total control over whats left. The "wacky lefts" agenda is right there to see if you care to fully open your eyes. They must be stopped.
I'd hate to be in one of their home economics classes. It doesn't take anything to serve bean curd and rabbit food, unless of course they don't eat that either.
I'll just add this to my "stupid human tricks" category. Unfortunately, the stupid ones are playing these tricks and we as a nation have to catch up to their insane tactics.
msseries….you have a point, and one that is addressed in the health care plan. They are trying to take over our children and if this bozo signs a treaty with the UN, which Boxer is pushing, the UN will own our children.
You all may want to find the OathKeepers blog if you want to find out what they are doing.
ObamaBus ! Corrected it for you, Cowboy….
Most schools have abandoned home ec classes. There in lies part of the problem. Kids aren't taught how to cook at home or at school and parents are constantly getting takeout for dinner because they have to run the kids to all sorts of after school activities.
Unfortunately too, these bake sales are held to provide supplemental funds for the schools. School districts ask PTAs and parents to provide art supplies. The PTAs pay for school assmblies and field trips. How are they supposed to make any money when they can't sell stuff people want to buy. I'll take a homemade cake anyday as healthier than prepackaged stuff.
Unfortunately too, these bake sales are held to provide supplemental funds for the schools. School districts ask PTAs and parents to provide art supplies. The PTAs pay for school assemblies and field trips. How are they supposed to make any money when they can't sell stuff people want to buy. I'll take a homemade cake anyday as healthier than prepackaged stuff.
I've seen what public schools look like, and they are model environments … if you're trying to squash individualism and indoctrinate kids into group-think and dependency.
I took my 5-year old to Kindergarten on his first day, and there was a huge 6-foot poster that read "Effort Equals Achievement". I turned to my son, and I told him that effort means nothing in the real world, and that RESULTS equal achievement. I don't know if my son understood, but I'll remind him periodically.
A dream come true for NY helicopter mom and food-lunatic, MeMe Roth!
What are we supposed to do? Refrigerate it, and serve it the next day? *sarcasm*
Part of the "Great Society" in the 70s was to help struggling families by replacing fathers with welfare checks.
Who has time to learn to cook? They have to watch "The Story of Stuff" to learn how evil Capitalism is, sing praises to "glorious leader", and watch Al Gore's movie about a slideshow.
I would like to see some teacher send a note home to me telling me that I was not allowed to decide what I prepared and packed for my child to take to school for lunch and snacks. I can guarantee you that they would not do that nonsense more than once. Bring it on.
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If I had a child in school today, it would not be a government public school.
What's next? The government targeting the sale of Girl Scout cookies?
The creeping Nanny State, no surprise, lefties will micromanage your life like a death by a thousand paper cuts if we let them. Just ask the disgusted Nanny State abused Brits that are itching to throw Brown and Labour out at the next election.
The government has no business in my kid's lunchbox, my refrigerator or limiting the number of calories or food selection of my family. In Britain lunchbox contents deemed "bad" are reportable to the school administration.
I went to a parochial grade school as a kid 40 years ago and they sold candy and ice cream as a fund raiser after lunch everyday, and guess what, finding an obese kid on the playground in those days was rare. There are many more factors in childhood obesity than proximity to a bake sale. Duh.
Perfect time for a parent to tell a teacher to mind her own business. I have a daughter named emily. she wouldn't oput up with it now. She of course almost qualified for the Olympics when in middle school. She is a NCAA national championship participant.
In my opinion, parents need to send more notes to teachers. Parents have rights and are easily intimidated. I had a teacher fired one time. I didn't plan on it. I just made some direct feedback to a Principal after a teacher left a parent teachers meeting and got a call in 2 days from the teacher saying she was fired.
Right on! The liberal progressive agenda has failed our children. It doesn't take a village to raise a child. It takes parents. Demand parental control and choice in our school system. Investigate the voucher system which reintroduces competition in our schools. Let's graduate children who CAN READ!! Sometimes children have to fail in order to learn how to succeed. Let's ditch no child left behind which has guaranteed that all children get passed so that the schools can keep the money.
What I eat or drink is NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS!!!
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New York is turning into the New UK. Mayor hates guns, HIGH taxes getting higher, now they think they are going to control the intake of sugar in your kid?
They are just stoping the sales b/c they are not getting there tax cut of the sales.
I really think that stinks~ I remember making cookies ALL the time in the Boy Scouts. This is a great character building tool for children and youngpeople as well. That crap better not come to Texas! : )
This will stop as soon as the Teacher's Union figures out that means more tax $$ must go into school supplies, therefore less tax $$ for teacher's unions.
The government/school districts have NO RIGHT telling people and kids what they can and cant eat……..that is insane!! If I wanna eat a thousand Big Mac’s in a day, thats my right! STAY OUT OF OUR LIVES, GOVERNMENT!! Hell, I know a lot of thin people who arent healthy….so being thin doesnt mean you are healthy.
INDIVIDUALS are responsible for their own health, not the government. And PARENTS are responsible for their own child’s health, not the government.
You know, it often gets me to thinking….if we were a “nation of thin, anorexic people” would the government be as quick to get us to eat, as they are to get us to lose weight.
I think individuality is slowly being destroyed. It’s not about health, its about taking away people’s freedoms.
I don't get it. All students are required to take physical education so why the hell don't schools do their damn job and get kids in shape? I ate whatever the hell I wanted and was in top shape because I played organized sports. But gym class was a joke and hardly ever much of a cardio workout at all. Make the fatties run for a half hour every day. The beached whales need that a heck of a lot more than they need to engage in the bulk of the activities that gym class entails. I liked me some pie and resent some idiot busybody public school officials depriving me of their sweet goodness because other kiddies are fat, lazy and worthless!
Being athletic is healthy? Being thin is healthy?
Uh huh…..tell that to Jim Fixx.
Leave it to government to overreact to a problem just when it's about ready to stop being a problem. Kids have been leading a more sedentary lifestyle dominated by video games, but this has not gone unnoticed by video game companies and answers are beginning to hit the shelves, like the wii fit, and the soon to be released microsoft Xbox "project natal" which are going to have both kids and adults up off the couch and working those big butts off.
if I was still in school I would be selling brownies on the black market in between classes.
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And how to properly apply a condom.
I was a parent ,my child is in the school. I went and talked to the cafe manager and asked her to put it in the computer that my kid can only have ice `cream on Friday. So, she was more happy to do that. Unfortuntely,as parents we like our sweets or a soda too. So, why do we have these people telling us what our kids can have and not to eat. If we allow them to keep telling us this. We will not have nothening. I bet the government gets meat,soda,sweets….It's more control once again. If we keep letting them take more and more control…Where's our country…Parents need to pay more attend to their kids or what is going on out there.Also, about our kids….You are the parent not them.
It's all about CONTROL, people. But these are the same school officials who'd toss a few condoms at a middle schooler and tell them to "be safe" when having sex. Because sleeping around is your right, gosh darn it; just don't you dare try to eat a cupcake – it'll ruin your health!
Whatever happened to personal responsibility? If I want to eat a cupcake that cost me 50 cents at a bakesale, it's NOT the government's power to tell me "No, that's bad for you."
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