Bake Sales Banned In New York Schools

nytimes.com:

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.

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Comments

[atcrossroads]

I was watching an old Jamie Oliver program last night, where he tries to change school lunches in the UK. While preparing some healthy vegetables for the children, the lady in charge of the cafeteria informs him that, by law, they are not allowed to add salt to the food. Jamie promptly threw his toys out of the cot because this is the same cafeteria where, like all other, kids are served processed hamburgers, chips, pizzas, chicken nuggets and fish fingers, laden with sodium, preservatives, artificial flavorings and colorants and all sorts of suspicious Es. But please, do not add a pinch of salt to the fresh vegies!

[emmeaki]

Sure, ban bake sales, but continue to serve french fries and cheeseburgers in the cafeteria.

[WYHKTai-Tai]

I guess this is something that needs to be done, but Wow.

It is really pathetic that we need to be treated like such a nanny-state and have laws against such things as bake sales. No more common sense? I dunno.

My kids' (private) primary school have about once every 2 months, fundraisers for one thing or another. The favourite one of students is dontate $?, (maybe $2- or $3-) and you get to wear whatever you want, or they have a theme, and you are allowed to dress up, but only with a donation. They only have a bake sale once a year. They aso have P.E. every day.

[Buffyfan1]

I would rather that the schools have a one BD party policy and Ban all vending machines from the schools. at my daughters school, every kid gets their own BD party. One month there were 5 BD parties. That is more sugar in one month than all the bake sales all year.

[blimie]

Well, not to be mean, but I have seen very obese parents bring in sugar loaded frosted glop and give it to kids at sporting events, birthdays, bake sales, any chance they get. There are classrooms where the majority of the kids are chubby or downright obese. Diabetes rate has quadrupled for children. Something has to be done.

[neesy08]

For Gods sake! Let the schools raise money!! If you do away with the bake sales, NY had better have an alternative for the short fall

[MaxTruth]

With all the problems in schools, it sure makes me feel better knowing they banned cupcakes.

[StillIRise]

As a former teacher in the Chicago public schools, bake sales were banned years ago. They're also banned in the school community in which I live in the suburbs of Chicago. I thought it was national. New York is a little late on this one ...

[itolduso]

Git yer dang gobermint hands offa my cookies!

[WaitingforJanuary]

I think changing what's in vending machines, healthier available choices in the cafeteria, and physical education would help more. Bake sales aren't the primary reason for obesity. Healthy eating with occasional sweets is more effective.

[FZliveson]

New York City allowing Bloomberg to buy back the mayor's office gave up its claim to
be a tough place. Lawmakers need to be concentrating on vital issues like the economy,
corruption in business and such. "Reducing sugar from outside sources" is balderdash.

[mercury613]

This is idi0tic. Taking away all things sweet will merely raise those things to the status of "taboo" and "forbidden fruit", and kids will want them even more. When I was in high school, my best friend's mother never let her have any refined sugar, so she came over to my house all the time and binged on any junk food she could get her hands on.

Kids need to be taught balance with regard to health and nutrition. Banning bake sales is a ridiculous, politically-correct band-aid. It is the food equivalent of abstinence-only education, and it will backfire.

[gascelebrations]

I don't know about the article, but that picture is really nice! Yum.

[JScott]

Well lessee I guess they are going to have to think about having farmers markets during school.
Or teaching kids to learn are to make edible bouquets (like the fruit company that does these) and selling them. Or just skirting the law and selling gift certificates to McD's and the like.

[KarateKid]

What a joke. How about restoring physical education, and healthy lunches, Mr. Shorty Mayor?