It’s over. The whole American experiment. Over. Done.
The place where a stamp tax started a full blown revolution has now banned local school groups from selling tasty cakes to make a quick buck. Parents are angry, but no one has assembled the tar and feathers appropriate to the occasion. They probably banned tar for having too many calories.
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.
You don’t have to see stats to know that bake sales aren’t contributing to obesity.
The state weighs in with typical government genius.
“We’re not trying to get into anyone’s lunch box,” Smith told the Herald.
No, that’s being saved for next week after they get away with this. Plus, North Carolina already beat them to it.
“We know that schools need those clubs and resources. We want them to be sure and have them, but to do them a different way. We have some incredibly innovative, talented folks in schools who are already doing some impressive things, who serve as incontrovertible evidence that, yes, you can do this, and be successful at it.”
State Sen. Susan Fargo (D-Lincoln), chairwoman of the Joint Committee on Public Health, said the problem of overweight children has reached “crisis” proportions.
And bake sales are contributing to that?
“If we didn’t have so many kids that were obese, we could have let things go,” Fargo said.
They’re not your kids. Banning selling cakes won’t make them skinny up.
“But,” she added, “this is a major public health problem and these kids deserve a chance at a good, long healthy life.”
It’s ironic how many things we hear done “for the children,” yet the one thing never done for the children which would do the most good is strengthen the traditional family. Never happens.
Ban this, ban that, ban everything! It’s for the children!
I can solve this problem for you easily enough…
Ban children.
There are some on the extreme edge of the environmental movement who want just that.
Could it be about more than just “nutrition.”
I hate to get all conspiraci-afied, but PTAs are parent groups, and the greatest threat to control of the schools by the academic elites are the parents.
This might not have been conceived as a tool to destroy the PTA (it won’t do that), but it most certainly is a forceful disparagement, a not-so-backhanded and possibly very deliberate slap.
I hope a parent group defies the ban. Let the state arrest them. Then they can fight it in court. I’m surprised the liberals haven’t filed for an injunction to prevent the state from… oh wait, that who’s doing it, the fricking liberals.
This coming from the same people that banned recess. Take away exercise, the kids get fat, so the next logical solution is to ban cupcakes and the kids will get skinny again. Never occurred to any of these idiots that maybe some exercise might be a better solution. When I was a kid, we played dodgeball, marbles, hopscotch, tetherball etc etc three times a day and had bake sales. Course we played outside after school and all summer too.
So can we still eat carrot cake and zuchinni bread?
Makes me wonder if it’s just because moms making homemade cup cakes aren’t union workers.
Ban nanny states from our Republic!
There is probably no way to reform the current public school system so it is encouraging to know there may be a way to replace it (ie, online education).
If they really want to play these “I know how you should be better than you do”, they could very well find themselves indulged. Their lack of military service distresses me to no end, for instance…service in the AVF….
Until then, ridicule of Massachusetts is the best solution. Of course, this demostrates perhaps why so many southern New Englanders migrated to the Old Northwest and New York. To get away from the Puritan spirit still lving in their home states. (and land, of course). So this is hardly a new problem….
No worries, with free birth control and early sex ed classes, I’m sure the kids will find something they can sell to make money.
The one thing they won’t do ‘for the children’ is keep and pass on the freedoms and liberties those “fixing” things enjoyed much less those enjoyed by Americans historically.
Maybe there was an impermissible disparity between the quantities of angelfood cake and devil’sfood cake being offered at the sales…
Has anyone ever dared serve angelfood cake at a PTA meeting in Hell’s Kitchen?
Perhaps they could advise the Massachusetts PTAs?
I recommend they replace bake sales with barbeques.
Have a rib cook-off or better yet, butcher a live steer and roast it over an open pit. They’d make more money and it would give the militant vegetarians a nuclear wedgie.
– Senator Brown, “federalize” this (the way the Senators from California make all State and local business their concern) and defeat Warren in a landslide in your swing state.
Can’t go back to the city with idiot Big Brother Bloomberg in charge
Stuck in Massachusetts with Barack clone Deval Patrick as governor
My local Town Council’s unanimously in thrall to the One and Only
And our School Committee will fold and roll over for the bake ban
Guess what? It’s simply none of the gov’t's business.
These poor kids…will be forced into back-alley bakeries! I’m an abortion agnostic–but it is the ONLY issue about which the left is pro-choice.
I propose a Boston Twinkie Party. Let’s all mail a box of Twinkies or Ho Hos — no wait, Ding Dongs — to the bright minds that thought this up and those that endorse it.
“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”
Obesity is now an industry, just like race, global warming, environmental awareness, and a dozen others in which thousands of parasites are making a living with government grants, which means your money and mine. They produce nothing but propaganda, the purpose of which is to promote themselves and expand their empires so that more and more of our money can be used to fatten their pocketbooks. I see no end in sight until some day in the future when our civilization collapses from the weight of just such as this, with a whimper or a bang – who knows. Sayonara, it was good while it lasted.
The President’s wife wants us to quit eating cake. The President thinks it would be fine if we ate dogs. This is what passes for politics in America. Would someone please show me to the nearest voting booth?
Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Menu! (Let’s hear it for eliminating competition from non-state food.)
That earthquake they had earlier in the year was the Founding Fathers rolling over in their graves.. This has GOT TO STOP! We need to take back OUR country.
I guess with the Obama economy, selling something healthier, like apples, is more fitting…
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“Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you and be silent. ”
— Epictetus
Epictetus was obviously not from Massachusetts.