Bake Sales now BANNED in Mass

[DrLeftover]

Bake sales, the calorie-laden standby cash-strapped classrooms, PTAs and booster clubs rely on, will be outlawed from public schools as of Aug. 1 as part of new no-nonsense nutrition standards, forcing fundraisers back to the blackboard to cook up alternative ways to raise money for kids.



At a minimum, the nosh clampdown targets so-called “competitive” foods — those sold or served during the school day in hallways, cafeterias, stores and vending machines outside the regular lunch program, including bake sales, holiday parties and treats dished out to reward academic achievement. But state officials are pushing schools to expand the ban 24/7 to include evening, weekend and community events such as banquets, door-to-door candy sales and football games.

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/re...ut_of_school_fundraisers/srvc=home&position=0

 

[Katatonia]

Which further stands my opinion: homeschool > public school. In which you can eat whatever the hell you want because you're in your own home and not in some grimy place.

 

[Jazzy]

Where are the state officials going to come up with the money to enforce this ban? Oh, I know, they'll sell Girl Scout cookies because the ban won't apply to them!

 

[Flurry]

This is retardation at its finest yet again. I get that they want good nutrition and all that. But to go so far as to ban bake sales in other events as well at schools in this place? That's just going a little far. There is such a thing as offering alternatives here people. Use your friggin' brains.