Cupcakes Banned in MA Schools

This is not meant to be combative at all, but do you have a problem with the school telling parents what the children are and are not allowed to wear to school? Like it or not, a person agreeing to send their children to a 'free' school also agrees to the rules put in place by that establishment, within reason.

True. Even schools you pay for, the school tells the parents what their kids can wear, etc.

One thing I'm noticing is that there are a lot of people that have a problem with this rule, but claim that they never pack junk food in their lunches. OK, so what's the problem, then? I put my selt beat on every time I get in the car before it was the law. Did I get pissed off that the government told me that I HAVE to? No. I don't. I'm more concerned about books being banned from schools than I am junk food.

I live in the only state that has banned school bake sales, thinking THAT'S going to change the obesity problem. And, they want to ban all fundraising for sports teams by selling cookies or candy, no cupcakes or treats given out for birthdays and no banquets for sports, etc. Maybe it would make more sense to have bigger bake sales and raise money to keep phys ed in the schools!

I'm disgusted!

Thank you LAZY PARENTS.

It is so much easier to just have the state teach your children how to function as people, isn't it? I blame feminism for pushing mothers out of the home and liberals for promoting this crap.

Ummm, I work full time outside the home and still have plenty of time to cook for scratch and such.

Don't blame feminism, place the blame on the individual LAZY PEOPLE, not a sweeping generalization.

I live in Utah. At my kids school one of the school lunches is something called a potato dog!!! A what? I took my daughter a subway kids meal one day for her lunch and I saw one finally. It was a hotdog cut in half lengthwise with nasty cheesy mashed potatoes smothered on top of it. EWWWW!! My daughter takes her lunch except for the occasional day when they have pizza or sub sandwiches or turkey dinners. She doesn't get any of the beef based school lunches.

Our teachers give the kids a piece of candy if their parents sign their planner the night before. They get a piece of candy if they finish their art project or writing project or whatever. She got a whole soda can for completing so many math facts in certain amount of time. They give out snack cakes for whatever. They have a snack recess where one of their 2 recesses each day gets 10-15min of it set aside for them to eat a snack because their lunch is one of the later time slots. I send a banana or apple with her for snack recess. Other kids get snack cakes or cookies. We don't have snack cakes in the house anymore but when we did for my husband to take for work if the kids wanted one it got split in half and they each got half. Half the time I don't even know how much snacks and candy my daughter gets at school because they don't send something home every day saying this and this was given today. <--- This annoys me. What if I was the type that I didn't want my child having candy as a reward for everything? I could tell the teacher not to give my child any ever but then she would feel like a failure because all the other kids got a reward and even though she worked hard she didn't. Fortunately I don't have a problem with the occasional piece of candy or whatever because I control how much they eat at home. But what about the parents that do?

If her school was like the ones in NC and took her home lunch away because it didn't have carrots and made her eat some processed enchiladas or other crap they have I would be livid.

On a side note. For parties, birthdays or anything at all home baked goods aren't allowed. They have to be prepackaged sealed and bought from a grocery store. Because of "allergies" What?????

One other thing! The school is next to a big park. There are multiple parents and kids that set up "stands" with fruit punch, snack cakes, baked goods and everything else to sell to the kids getting out of school and walking home. WTH????

When my daughter was in preschool they banned fruit snacks because they were a mess to clean up from the carpets and stuff if the kids were sloppy with them.

For the person who mentioned fundraising. I was in ROTC in High School. We sold candy for our fundraisers. All of our competitions and field trips and stuff were paid for with that. (we also sold overpriced wrapping paper ugh)

Band always sold these little "discount" cards that they had arranged with local businesses. Like a free taco with purchase of taco at TB, or buy one dozen donuts get a dozen free from Dunkin Donuts. The one I used over and over was a free appetizer at Applebees with the purchase of an entree. Lots of local clothing shops and restaurants and stuff too.

Depending on the age group maybe they could sell fancy folders and stuff. Teachers buy them for .25 or whatever and the kids sell them in a little "store" for .50?

Entertainment books are always a good one too. Oh out here boy scouts and stuff are always arranging with Papa Johns Pizza to sell coupon sheets with like 10 coupons on them.

Thank you LAZY PARENTS.

It is so much easier to just have the state teach your children how to function as people, isn't it? I blame feminism for pushing mothers out of the home and liberals for promoting this crap.

I work for a company that caters meals to schools...just recently we got notified of a HUGE government regulation change to all meals. It should make things verrrrrry interesting....and kids are gonna HATE the new foods!

Prohibition worked really well, too