NYC Schools: No Bake Sales

[Gothampc]

Posted: 10/4/09 at 12:44am

The NYC Education Department has banned bake sales as a means of fund raising.

No word yet on band candy...or car washes where a fat black girl breaks a window and then sings about it.

"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."
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[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 10/4/09 at 1:05am

Let the parents decide what they want their kids to have. If they don't want them to have any junk food then don't give them the money.

[SNAFU]

Posted: 10/4/09 at 1:53am

Don't make me post that children of the 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s thing again!

[uncageg]

Posted: 10/4/09 at 2:11am

Back in the 60's when I was a kid....

[Jane2]

Posted: 10/4/09 at 9:19am

I guess since there's such a huge problem with obesity here, the schools at least don't want to contribute to it. Let the kids eat cake candy and cookies on their own time, like I do!

[StockardFan]

Posted: 10/4/09 at 9:34am

Don't make me post that children of the 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s thing again!

That's the first thing that came to my mind too!

[adamgreer]

Posted: 10/4/09 at 9:36am

This is just as dumb as NJ, where the sale of soda has been banned in cafeterias. Instead they sell Snapple, whose sugar content is, wait for it, equivalent to that of soda.

[nmartin]

Posted: 10/4/09 at 9:46am

I thought virtually all districts had done away with that. My district stopped it a decade ago.

[Marianne2]

Posted: 10/4/09 at 10:26am

Yeah, in my high school there were soda machines in the hallway by the gym that were turned off all day. Of course, once the bell rang, kids were lining up to use them. They were just so inconvenient to get to if you weren't near them and didn't want to miss the bus.

I know in New Jersey it's illegal to bring candy and other similar items in. Even for holiday parties in class.

[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 10/4/09 at 11:35am

My school doesn't give a sh*t. Now the lunch line & vending machines don't have soda but the school store does (w/ candy) as well as MANY teachers who sell it as a fundraiser. We have a coffee shop opening tomorrow with Dunkin' Donuts coffee.

[AwesomeDanny]

Posted: 10/4/09 at 12:18pm

I think my school still does bake sales. And I think they sell soda in the cafeteria, but I'm not sure because I don't really look because I don't like soda. However, everybody got really mad because a couple years ago, they served big cookies that everybody loved, but last year, they replaced them with smaller, mediocre-tasting cookies. Everybody assumed it was because some parent complained. And I know that at the high school I'm going to next year, they have vending machines on during the school day, but each item is labeled with something like "best choice", "choose occasionally", or "choose rarely"; and people decide to only take "choose rarely" stuff just to rebel against the school.

[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 10/4/09 at 12:26pm

A friend of mine is the head Lunch Services at a bunch of the schools in my area & she was telling me a story about this health-nut who sat in on one of the schools meetings. She basically tried to scare them into getting rid of lunch snacks.

She starts in a frantic yelling:

"Snacks add 100 calories a day so that times 365 days adds 10 lbs. to a child EVERY YEAR!"

To which the friend responded

"We are only in school for 180 days..."

That shut her up but the school no longer has snacks.

The friend was about to knock her in the head with a baseball bat.

[Pgenre]

Posted: 10/4/09 at 3:16pm

TheatreFan, I think I know who that crazy is - she lives on my street! Are you talking 'bout my hood? And does she do the WBNG news on occassion giving "nutritional advice", too?

If so, C.R.A.Z.Y.

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[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 10/4/09 at 3:25pm

I'm not sure. The meeting was at Boces I believe, so probably.

[JEK216]

Posted: 10/4/09 at 4:27pm

My preschool banned bake sales a few years ago. There are kids nowadays with alergies to things like peanutbutter, and tree nuts. And because of that, ALL the children are restricted from eating those things at our center. We allow no homebaked items, for birthday treats. They must be store bought, with ingredient labels. We no longer serve hot dogs, raw carrots, celery, pretzels, or popcorn, choking hazzards. We no longer serve pork, because of the vegetarians. We can no longer order tater tots or french fries. For a while they removed creamed soups from the food order forms. Try making a casserole without creamed soup. All this, in an effort to make kids healthier and safer. Is it working? Will these kids grow up healthier than the gererations before them? Or are we raising a generation of weaklings, who have no immunity to common foods? Time will tell.

Updated On: 10/4/09 at 04:27 PM

[Gothampc]

Posted: 10/4/09 at 4:28pm

"Yeah, in my high school there were soda machines in the hallway by the gym that were turned off all day. Of course, once the bell rang, kids were lining up to use them. They were just so inconvenient to get to if you weren't near them and didn't want to miss the bus."

That's the way it was in my school too. Fortunately for me, I had a best friend that was very bold. During lunch, he would crawl behind the machine and plug it back in so we could buy soda.

[Pgenre]

Posted: 10/4/09 at 4:49pm

I always found it amusing that my highschool sold pastries, cake, cookies, ice cream and candy but the DIET COKE machine was off limits... yet the SNAPPLE, GATORADE and POWERADE machines glowed all day! LOL! Hypocrites!

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[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 10/4/09 at 4:54pm

I hate Binghamton High School & I don't even go there. I had to take my SATs there & I felt like I was going to get stabbed.

[Pgenre]

Posted: 10/4/09 at 4:58pm

Yes, TheatreFan BHS is ghetto...

... but I, of course, went to the oh-so affluent Seton. :HUGE EYE ROLL::

Let's just say I spent most lunch periods with the cool kids in the bathroom smoking... or whatever,

OH, and my best friend in highschool actually DID get stabbed... at West Middle no less... by a student from, you guessed it, BHS! G.H.E.T.T.O.

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Updated On: 10/4/09 at 04:58 PM

[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 10/4/09 at 5:05pm

I'm stuck out here in the cowtown that is Windsor.

[Pgenre]

Posted: 10/4/09 at 5:07pm

Does that militaristic dyke still run Windsor HS?

B*tch is batsh!t!

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[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 10/4/09 at 5:08pm

Green? No she quit before I started High School. We have a douche now name Chris Haynes... He used the be the VP at BHS.

[Pgenre]

Posted: 10/4/09 at 5:11pm

Oh, God! I know Hayes too!

From bad to worse!

Poor child.

How long until you're 18 so you can get the F out of Greater Broome (a prejorative if I ever heard one...)?

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[mariusmyhomeboy]

Posted: 10/4/09 at 5:11pm

"This is just as dumb as NJ, where the sale of soda has been banned in cafeterias. Instead they sell Snapple, whose sugar content is, wait for it, equivalent to that of soda. "

Reminds me of my high school. During my junior year they replaced the soda with juice. The following year, they replaced the juices with diet soda.

Of course they still sold fried food and cookies- but soda was a no no.

[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 10/4/09 at 5:14pm

How long until you're 18 so you can get the F out of Greater Broome (a prejorative if I ever heard one...)?

About 5 months... but I'm not going far. I'm starting out at BCC.