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Bake sales are banned in NY city schools
STLToday.com/NY Times ^ | 10/05/2009 | JENNIFER MEDINA

Posted on 10/05/2009 4:30:27 AM PDT by prisoner6

Bake sales are banned in NY city schools


BY JENNIFER MEDINA
NEW YORK TIMES

NEW YORK — 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.

Trying 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 fundraising tool for generations of teams and clubs.

The change is part of a new wellness policy...

(Excerpt) Read more at stltoday.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: bakesale; education; food; nannystate; nyc; schools
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Sooo...if a kid is caught with a Twinkie for lunch ..are police called and the kid arrested?

prisoner6

1 posted on 10/05/2009 4:30:27 AM PDT by prisoner6
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To: prisoner6
Funny comment on the link:

jaceinAZ October 4, 2009 10:07PM CST

ban bakes sales to stem bad eating habits....hey! I hear that if you light your head on fire it prevents acne!!

2 posted on 10/05/2009 4:35:20 AM PDT by libertarian27 (Ingsoc: Life, Liberty and the Department of Happiness)
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To: prisoner6
Why does the ol Larry Groce song come to mind?

(JunkFood Junkie)

Regards

alfa6 :>}

3 posted on 10/05/2009 4:36:49 AM PDT by alfa6
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To: prisoner6

I wonder how long before this becomes a state mandate...
Maybe they can hold bake sales OFF CAMPUS and then the schools have nothing to say about it... I forget, this is the NANNY state - they will figure away to oppress the people!


4 posted on 10/05/2009 4:41:08 AM PDT by RebelTXRose
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To: bmwcyle

Enter in the nanny state...


5 posted on 10/05/2009 4:41:36 AM PDT by Apple Blossom (...around here, city hall is something of a between meals snack.)
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To: prisoner6

Visited my granddaughters class. There was 1 chunky kid (out of 25 kids) and one big fat teacher!!


6 posted on 10/05/2009 4:41:44 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: prisoner6

Have “they” ever made the connection that perhaps the longer school day and the cessation of recess may perhaps have something to do with the sedentary lifestyle and the increase of obesity? Lots and lots of homework equals a whole heck of a lot of time indoors. I haven’t noticed that an increase in work load results in greater intelligence in the students either.

Get the kids outdoors and moving around. That will do more for the obesity problem.


7 posted on 10/05/2009 4:41:52 AM PDT by Jemian (For the first time in my life I'm proud of the IOC.)
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To: RebelTXRose
I guess that means that they will get rid of the vending machines and stop the fundraisers with that greasy popcorn or chocolate bars....

go ahead and make my day...

8 posted on 10/05/2009 4:44:18 AM PDT by cherry
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To: RebelTXRose

I’m sure Nanny Bloomberg will soon implement random blood tests of students, to detect off-campus junk food use.


9 posted on 10/05/2009 4:51:06 AM PDT by Above My Pay Grade
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To: cherry

lol, I have three kids who all come home with dreams of winning the cheap prizes they give out for selling X amount of crap, whining when we tell them “NO” to a $1.50 candybar.

The only thing we have bought in the last couple of years is wrapping paper and trash bags, they were actually a pretty good deal.


10 posted on 10/05/2009 4:51:57 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: Jemian
Cessation of recess??? For real???? Why in the world would schools want to not let kids out for recess?

/end jaw-dropping moment.

11 posted on 10/05/2009 4:52:11 AM PDT by 3catsanadog (If healthcare reform is passed, 41 years old will be the new 65 YO.)
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To: 3catsanadog

It helps increase the number of ADD diagnoses and that brings in more money from the state for “special education” needs. Every special ed kid is a goldmine.


12 posted on 10/05/2009 5:00:56 AM PDT by Kozak (USA 7/4/1776 to 1/20/2009 Reqiescat in Pace)
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To: 3catsanadog

“Why in the world would schools want to not let kids out for recess?”

Because they need the time to explain why its OK for Suzie to have two “mommies.”


13 posted on 10/05/2009 5:04:04 AM PDT by RU88 (Bow to no man)
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To: Jemian

Gurillia Bake Sales, like a flash mob. “Dude, I have word via Twitter that there’s going to be some SERIOUS confectionary business behind the bleachers in fifteen minutes!”


14 posted on 10/05/2009 5:07:34 AM PDT by 50sDad (The Left cannot understand life is not in a test tube. Raise taxes, & jobs go away.)
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To: Jemian

Don’t worry, the Prez is going to put the kiddies in school year round! (Take that, you whiney ObamaYouth! You wanted the “first Nanny president” to take care of you? Shut up and get your butt back in the classroom. Summer vacation? YOU don’t get no damn SUMMER VACATION! It’s GOOD FOR YOU!)


15 posted on 10/05/2009 5:10:42 AM PDT by 50sDad (The Left cannot understand life is not in a test tube. Raise taxes, & jobs go away.)
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To: RU88

You guys have successfully connected the dots.


16 posted on 10/05/2009 5:17:24 AM PDT by 3catsanadog (If healthcare reform is passed, 41 years old will be the new 65 YO.)
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To: Abathar

I got twice by coworkers just in the last two days for Cub Scout popcorn....of course, I have to support the Cub Scouts.


17 posted on 10/05/2009 5:21:04 AM PDT by cherry
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To: 3catsanadog

This has been tried in a number of schools around the country. In fact, at the school where I teach we don’t have “recess”. There is a 15-minute break at 10:00 and the kids can play then and another at lunch time. P.E. is two forty-five minute classes during the week.

This is so the academics can all “be covered.”

Frankly, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd graders do not need much beyond learning to read, write and arithmetic. The science and history that is covered is repeated in the later grades. What is currently taught as separate subjects can be reading material and the information will be learned just as well.

Kids need to exercise their bodies as well as their minds! The obesity “epidemic” is because that has not been recognized.


18 posted on 10/05/2009 5:21:24 AM PDT by Jemian (For the first time in my life I'm proud of the IOC.)
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To: alfa6
Actually, this might be a more appropriate theme song. Love that Goodman...

Chicken Cordon Blues

19 posted on 10/05/2009 5:25:21 AM PDT by Mygirlsmom (9/12/2009 Wash DC: The most unlikely bunch of domestic terrorists one could ever imagine)
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To: prisoner6

The state and federal agencies will gladly move in to make up the cash shortfall. Just another way to remove local control of the schools.


20 posted on 10/05/2009 5:44:23 AM PDT by 1raider1
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