Bake sales are banned in NY city schools (STLToday)

[Drew Wilson]

NEW YORK — There shall be no cupcakes. No chocolate cake and no carrot cake. According to New York City's latest regulations, not even zucchini bread makes the cut.

Trying 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 fundraising tool for generations of teams and clubs.

The change is part of a new wellness policy that also limits what can be sold in vending machines and student-run stores, which use profits to help finance activities like pep rallies and proms. The elaborate rules were outlined in a three-page memo issued at the end of June, but in the new school year, principals and parents are just beginning to, well, digest them.

Parent groups and Parent-Teacher Associations are conspicuously given an exception: once a month they are allowed to sell as many dark fudge brownies and lemon bars as they please, so long as lunch has ended. And after 6 p.m. on weekdays, anything goes. But at that hour, most students are long gone, and as far as the Education Department is concerned, stuffing oneself with coconut macaroons and peanut butter cookies at that hour is one's prerogative.

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What's an "excercise"?
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[rainbowdemon]

They should eliminate lunch too. Because. as we all know, food is poison!!

[mountain_rage]

They're just taking precautions because "the cake is a lie".



If they are going to eliminate products, they need to replace them with healthy alternatives. The schools should be fitted with blenders to offer real fruit smoothies, bubble tea, and other healthier drinks.

Also, they should have deserts and snacks that are also healthy but delicious. Not sure what these could be, but I'm sure they exist.

[Signa]

I don't know about you guys, but I'm not one to put my cash down on some "healthy" alternative unless the taste value is equal or greater than the snack it's replacing. Last time I checked, there wasn't much that qualified under those guidelines. I'll just wait to go home and eat a candy bar there.

The point isn't so much that I'll eat what I want, but that I need the convenience and enticement to eat at the student store so as to financially support my school. Healthy snacks will more than likely turn me away from giving money to my school.