Posted on 11/11/2008 10:29:12 PM PST by Pinkbell
(CBS) In California it's still legal to sell cupcakes, cookies and brownies in a bakery ... but not at a school bake sale.
That fundraising slice of Americana - loaded with sugar and fat - has been banned in California schools by government order, reports CBS News correspondent John Blackstone.
At Piedmont High School, principal Randall Booker has enforced a zero tolerance policy for what used to be a campus tradition.
"I love the bake sales," he said. "I eat them myself. But there are state laws that we just have to abide by."
To combat the epidemic of childhood obesity, new state nutrition guidelines strictly limit the fat, sugar and total calories of any food sold on campus during school days - even before and after school.
At Montclair Elementary, the hall is lined with photos of the annual fundraiser, where eating has always played a central role.
"Food sales are a big part of our community," said Wendy Morrison, the mother of a fifth-grader. "They're more than just the selling of food. It's community coming together."
Morrison mourns the loss.
"It was actually a beloved tradition at the school."
California's effort to get fat and sugar out of school foods goes far beyond the disappearing bake sale tables. School lunches no longer consist of hot dogs, french fries and nachos. Choices now include spinach salad, healthy burritos and grilled chicken.
Principal Booker also says Piedmont High no longer sells soft drinks like Coke and Pepsi.
And the kids miss the junk food.
"Oh, I used to have nachos and sour cream and chili like everyday. They don't sell that any more. But now I have to settle for, like, this whatever," said one student.
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Meddling liberals strike again. I have no problem with the schools offering healthier food in the cafeteria, but banning all junk and bake sales is ridiculous. Expect more of this when the government takes control of healthcare. They want to minimize expenses.
The socialist nanny state marches on...
We are fat because we are wealthy.
Obama is going to “fix” that.
Is Huckabee running the joint?
Civility forbids me from expressing my true feelings abut the Socialists running the schools today.....
Everytime I think that it really sucks to live here in NY, an article like this pops up. I’d take NY over California every time.
Let’s see em ban tortillas, Conchas, Bolillos, Orejas, Empanadas, Churros and Marranitos...talk about riots..
Another one liberty bites the dust.
When are they going to crack down on something that matters? Like out of control government or massive budget busting spending?
Sadly, there is speculation New York may be next:
Cop out. Those bake sales combined with the elementary school carnival were so much fun. I can still remember them.
Or abortion?
Or abortion.
This makes me want to send every kid in California a Ho-Ho.
Time to ban children’s lemonade stands, too!
I’m sure there’s too much sugar in some of that lemonade, and besides, giving those kids any ideas about business, etc. is just too dangerous.
I have a problem with liberals/Democrats banning foods . That is against freedom. And I have a problem with the mere existance of government schools.
By what right Do Democrats steal the money of the creators of wealth and technology like Intel, Dell, Exxon,Wal-Mart, and of working regular Americans, to use that money to brainwash kids in government schools into becoming semi-illiterate Marxist criminals?
The dept of Education is unconstitutional , along wth the thousands of other capital robbing and freedom taking government agencies. These government agencies are a cancer and they must be abolished.
Look at the thousands of government agencies here that do nothing:
http://www.usa.gov/Agencies/Federal/All_Agencies/index.shtml
I read this and thought, "What a shot of sanity." Then, I saw who posted. Still, sanity and common sense are in such short supply it boggles the mind at times. Thanks.
Ok, it sucks just as bad here lol. ;)
I love how gambling is illegal here and yet there are 5 casinos close by.
Not to mention bLotto.
"All it takes is a buck and a whole lotta luck!"
re: your tagline and Paul Revere. One lamp, please.
The winds in Ohio are swinging too. We have a Rat Governor, and the state went blue for BO. :(
That must sound funny to those that think money grows in other people's pockets.
The only real FAT in California is in the heads of the political leadership, the leftist ideologues, and the bureaucrats.
What a fu*king mess they have made of a beautiful state.
And it is going to get worse, if that is possible.
It's even funnier to those who can spell.
The school has banned any kid of cake, cookies or other sweets from any celebration.
I was told that we could have a party with all the trimmings as long as the trimmings where whole wheat this or that.
Tell you the truth in the school cafeteria the kids throw that crap in the slop barrel.
The schools in California have gone overboard in trying to become the parent instead of just teaching the three R's plus sex, plus why do I have two mommies and no man in the house, plus there is no God so don't pray it might offend little Muhammad during his daily prayers.
I loved the cake walks. I thought they were great fun.
california is living up to it’s slogan, the land of fruits and nuts. I’m so tired of this nanny/liberal/controlling/pot head/puke fest...I really feel for those out there hanging on fearlessly to their conservative values. We need to encourage conservatives in california somehow. Any ideas on how to bolster them?
I never gained weight in Europe, despite what I ate, because of all the walking.
That's it right there. Kids probably wouldn't be so fat if they were outside playing every day. Instead, they're on the internet or video games or just vegging in front of the TV, probably gorging on junk food at the same time because the parents can't be bothered to care.
It's up to the parents, not the government to ensure that their children are eating right and exercising.
But too many people have fallen asleep and would rather the nanny state take care of these things.
Eat a cookie, lose your health insurance.
I wonder when if and when they will ban video games in homes or limit the amount of time spent playing these games. Obviously, the government wants to take more and more decisions away from parents. What is even sadder is that too many parents are willing to give up their decisions on what is best for their own child.
Sorry about that. I’m on the Nintendo Wii’s Opera brower with no cut-n-paste, nor keyboard.
yeah it’s a major PITA to type with that remote
My "you're so vain" ex and his bat-from-hell mother were both thin like the Obamas, and they were uncontestably the meanest, most back-stabbing people I've ever had to deal with for any length of time. They were probably starving themselves to meet their narcissistic ideals. Hunger makes a person mean.
Get rid of all the taxes, kick all the moonbat out, and send all the illegals...oops, can't call thm illegal aliens any more)mexican intruders back to Mexico.
I really do think that the goal of leftwing politicians is to turn societies and cultures into a one size fits all airport terminal where every single facet of life is scrutinized and controlled.
It will reach a point where some of us might be looking at more primitive societies (even governed by despots, where formally there are no rights) with a certain longing for their immediate-type UNLEGISLATED freedoms.
No doubt it is all mean well, but - well - before buidling bridges and highways, some people measure the “environmental impact”... perhaps they ought to do the same thing with human beings and ask: “what’s the good social / cultural / kids-growing-up stuff that is lost in such hyper-legislation?”
We had bake sales and junk food at school when we were growing up and there weren't a bunch of fat kids walking around. Today kids sit in class all day, then go home and sit in front of the computer, video game or TV. My mother used to throw us out in the yard and we rode bikes, climbed trees and were very active. Bake sales don't make kids fat!
I would *never* eat any brownies that were baked in CA.
I couldn’t agree more. I spent so much time outside; I was probably one of the healthist kids around. We also used our imaginations. We had all kinds of games we played.
Today, kids don’t do that. If they are outside; they are in structured groups for a period of time if it fits into the schedule or they hang.
I remember those. It was cool.
If they really want to do something about childhood obesity, they would start requiring PE again, re-institute recess with bona fide playground equipment and ban high-fructose corn syrup in all products.
Nintendo Wii’s Opera brower with no cut-n-paste, nor keyboard.
That's high tech! My hat's off to ya.
Why don’t “they”, the government/Democrats/Marxists, just leave us alone and get out of the way so that the free market and individuals can find solutions to any real or manufacturd “problems”.
Democrats are always looking for government solutions to any made up or imaginary “problem” like global warming. Friedman showed that only the free market can get milions of people to cooperate voluntary to produce all the products that are needed by the people and the economy. So only the free market works and government can never work.
So, in order to make a pencil, you would have to be able to do all of these things. There are probably thousands of people who have cooperated together to make this pencil. Somehow or other, the people in South America who dug out the graphite cooperated with the people in Malaysia who tapped the rubber trees, cooperated with, maybe, people in Oregon who cut down the trees.
“These thousands of people don’t know one another. They speak different languages. They come from different religions. They might hate one another if they met. What is it that enabled them to cooperate together?
“The answer is the existence of a market.
“The simple answer is the people in South America were led to dig out the graphite because somebody was willing to pay them. They didn’t have to know who was paying them; they didn’t have to know what it was going to be used for. All they had to know was somebody was going to pay them.
“What brought all these people together was an enormously complex structure of prices - the price of graphite, the price of lumber, the price of rubber, the wages paid to the laborer, and so on. It’s a marvelous example of how you can get a complex structure of cooperation and coordination which no individual planned.
“There was nobody who sat in a central office and sent an order out to Malaysia: ‘Produce more rubber.’ It was the market that coordinated all of this without anybody having to know all of the people involved.”.
http://alexbarnett.net/blog/archive/2006/11/18/Nobody-knows-how-to-make-a-pencil.aspx
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