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Do parents have a right to hold a school bake sale?

Don’t mess with the homemade chocolate cupcakes and Rice Krispies bars. Outraged parents in New York City recently took up spatulas and spoons to protest a city crackdown on school bake sales, those ubiquitous and often lucrative fund-raisers. Getting the figurative pie in the face were city education officials, who say they have to balance fund-raising needs with the child obesity epidemic. Forty percent of the children in city schools are obese or overweight, they say. And they need to know, and control, the nutritional content of snacks sold in schools. Homemade goodies obviously don’t come with such labels.
 
 

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07/27/2010
james
smithttown hs east, smithtown Ny
your choice to be fat not the bake sale food let them eat the cupcakes there so yummy who cares 2 cupcakes arent gona gain you 100 pounds
 
 
07/27/2010
susaN
northpoty, ny
having bake sales isnt going to cause obesity.all its gona do is raise money
 
 
07/27/2010
moses
john glenn high school, huntington NY
i feel like kids should be able to eat what they want when they want
 
 
07/27/2010
quan
harborfields high, huntington, NY
i dont see anything wrong with parents running a school bake sale, they're doing the same thing that teachers are doing when they run the bake sale
 
 
07/27/2010
jesse
northport high school, east northport ny
this is a stupid idea. no one wants food that is pre-packaged from a bake sale, they want home cooked brownies and cookies
 
 
07/27/2010
kain
bayside high, new york city
kids will eat what they want, when did schools start snatching twinkies out hands? Offer healty foods but dont take away all the good stuff... educate on good health as well
 
 
07/27/2010
nicole
smithtown west, smithtown,ny
I think schools should be able to stop bake sales because while parents arent around during school hours the school is held responsible for you and they can control what you eat to an extent but outside of school there is no stopping anyone from what they eat.
 
 
07/27/2010
quan
harbofields high, huntington, NY
well maybe they shouldn't sell nothing but snacks so kids wont get so fat. they should add son healthy snacks such as protien bars or something like that.
 
 
06/03/2010
Sarah
Springfield High School , Springfield PA
I find this cut back of back sales kind of rediculous. This attempt to stop childhood obesity is rather silly because all its doing is cutting down the money that would go to the cause that the backsale is helping. These children will eat what ever they want to. In my opinion it is up to the parents to say what a child can and cannot eat, it is not up to NYC officials.
 
 
06/01/2010
Rachel
Springfield High School, Springfield, PA
I think that cutting back on bake sales is not an effective way for fighting obesity. Kids will eventually eat what they want if it is sold at the school or not. I think that NYC school officials have a responsibility to what students eat to a certain point. I think that they are to provide different choices of food including healthy choices and non-healthy choices and then they can educate them on how and why to choose the healthier choices, but I do not think that all they should provide is healthy food since kids will either not buy it. The kind of non-food-fundraisers that are held at my school are games such as girls football, family feud, and talent shows where all the proceeds go to kids with cancer.
 
 

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