The Department of Education is implementing new guidelines to curb sugary and fatty foods in school. But will that spell the end for that time-honored tradition of the bake sale? New York Times education reporter Jennifer Medina discusses the latest.
Speaking of bake sales, have you seen the disastrous results of WNYC's recent bake sale? (Full disclosure, this is a promotional video.)
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As a frustrated mom that has run too many wasteful fundraisers like bake sales, I started my own company, Virescent Inc. www.virescentshopper.com. Schools and organizations can sell eco-friendly products with no upfront costs. It relevant and current with curriculum.
Thank you, BRIAN for another one-sided supposedly concerned parent communist program. You didn't have one person on who was against the bake sale ban. The problem is not bake sales, but the way that kids don't learn self-control (action/consequences) behaviors at home.
Another misrepresentation on your show was that kids don't bake. They do!
How are kids supposed to make money for their causes?
T-shirts don't sell... duh! Would marijuana sales be more in line with your agenda?
Get with it!
Give your child home made lunch if you really want to know what they eat and control their calorie intake. Use Warmables, it keeps food warm like Thermos keeps liquids warm.
You can find it at www.warmables.com.
I think bake sales are a good thing. Give your child money for one cookie or one cupcake if you are worried about the sugar. And yes, have the sales after they eat lunch!
Use this program to incorporate to educate what to eat for kids to learn how to cut sugar and calories and so on.
This is idiotic. If people stopped feeding their kids pizza, burgers and take-out, they wouldn't be fat. Read your labels and don't buy anything with high fructose corn syrup.
My mother was a wonderful baker and sent us to school with homemade cookies and cake. We also had "the evil sugar" at home. We were and are all thin and healthy.
I bake. My son is twenty and has never been fat. I am in my fifties and has never been fat. When he was a kid, I baked for NYC public school bake sales.
86 the take-out, read the labels, and leave the cookies alone.
This is absurd. Are kids going to be allowed to bring lunch? It has to be about money. It's only about purchases. If it were about nutrition and stopping obesity then parents would be given guidelines on what kids can even bring for lunch.
Bake sales have been around for so long because they're easy to run and they offer popular & inexpensive products. (Shouldn't a billionaire mayor understand this?_
Asking schools to switch to walkathons and t-shirt sales might work where there's a lot of parental involvement and students have a lot of spending money. In NY, it's only going to further exacerbate the differences among schools with affluent and less affluent populations.
do schools still have bake sales?
my school (and the schools of several coworkers' children) sold candy, mostly M&Ms.
For this we needed mayoral control?
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