Originally Posted By mawnck >>and believe me as a mom when I tell you public schools are in a near constant state of fund raising<< Exactly. "We should be able to sell the Oreo Bacon Cheesecake Trufflebars in school. It's a FUND RAISER. And there's another one next week. And the week after ..." Now someone please tell me how the heck did we get from forbidding bake sales on school grounds during classes, to forbidding the kids from eating candy entirely, ever?
Originally Posted By mawnck >>Bake sales usually are tied in with some other event at school -- a music performance, back to school night<< Which, according to the link in post 1, is legal under the Massachusetts law, as long as they aren't within 30 minutes of the regular school day.
Originally Posted By TomSawyer I think you brought up an important point, mawnck. Tell us more about these Oreo Bacon Cheesecake Trufflebars.
Originally Posted By mawnck >>Tell us more about these Oreo Bacon Cheesecake Trufflebars.<< Not until 30 minutes after the school day ends.
Originally Posted By ecdc >>Not until 30 minutes after the school day ends. << My kids got out 40 minutes ago. Cough (quite literally) it up.
Originally Posted By DDMAN26 <<Tell us more about these Oreo Bacon Cheesecake Trufflebars.>> Take the Cheesecake out and then will talk.
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost I got a new slogan... Let them eat cake and everybody else...mind your own damn business. A bake sale at a school never made anyone obese. Changing over from "menu-ed" lunches to buffet style, with junk food available was part of the problem, but overeating and lack of "moderation" originates from the family level completely. There are so many variables as to why kid overeats it would take a couple of sites to list them all. Take away the video games and make them go outside and play ball, ride bikes or whatever and you will see the childhood obesity problem start to decline. It isn't intake it is the lack of muscle flexing.
Originally Posted By DDMAN26 <<and make them go outside and play ball>> Oh no no no. Then you have to have it organized. And every dad on the team has to be a coach. You can't just have random acts of playing.
Originally Posted By Princessjenn5795 I have no problems with a bake sale at school, although I prefer my kids' school annual fundraiser of a run-a-thon. They only do the one big fundraiser each year, and the entire town gets involved, with local merchants donating beverages and snacks and small little prizes for the kids. Parents are also encouraged to either run or help out. As far as the bake sale goes, I think it is pretty extreme to outright ban all junk food ever. That is the sort of thing that leads kids to binge eat when they get the chance, and makes food a big deal, potentially leading to problems later on. Schools could do a lot more to reduce obesity by requiring PE every day, serving healthy lunch options (that do not include the sauce on the pizza as a vegetable), and teaching kids how to eat a healthy and BALANCED diet, with treats being consumed in moderation. Banning junk food outright is not going to do a thing to help.
Originally Posted By DDMAN26 I heard on the radio this morning that it was going to be repealed and left up to the individual schools. So it's nice to see common sense prevail for once.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>It isn't intake it is the lack of muscle flexing.<< 100% agree. We ate Twinkies and junk in the 60s, meals were all Paula Deen style. But we played outside after school, all day on weekends, constantly in motion. People are worried that kidnappers will take their children off the street if they're allowed to just go out and play. So, the kids stay inside, or are in organized sports leagues, and the level of exercise is a fraction of what a kid really needs.
