NYC Schools: No Bake Sales

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

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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!

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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.

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.

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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.

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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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.

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

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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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

Does that militaristic dyke still run Windsor HS?

B*tch is batsh!t!

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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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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.