School district bans candy, cakes, and cookies

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

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School district bans candy, cakes, and cookies

Sunday, October 28, 2007 By Elizabeth Doran
Staff writer

Kids might see it as a trick, but there will be no traditional treats, including candy, at this year's Halloween parties in the East Syracuse-Minoa schools.

And class birthday parties this fall are taking on a new flavor because cupcakes, cookies and cakes have been banned.


Personally, I think schools shouldn't be "offering" food, i.e. school breakfast and lunch. You KNOW the government's price for food far exceeds that which the parent could purchase and provide. And if the parents can't feed their own children, we have a more serious problem than the "kind" of food served in public schools.

As for cupcakse, cookes & cakes, if the parents bring them in, and other parents are okay with their children eating them, the school has no right to "ban" them. IMHO

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[Naturalized-Texan]

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[Sarah]

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School district bans candy, cakes, and cookies

Sunday, October 28, 2007 By Elizabeth Doran
Staff writer

Kids might see it as a trick, but there will be no traditional treats, including candy, at this year's Halloween parties in the East Syracuse-Minoa schools.

And class birthday parties this fall are taking on a new flavor because cupcakes, cookies and cakes have been banned.


Personally, I think schools shouldn't be "offering" food, i.e. school breakfast and lunch. You KNOW the government's price for food far exceeds that which the parent could purchase and provide. And if the parents can't feed their own children, we have a more serious problem than the "kind" of food served in public schools.

As for cupcakse, cookes & cakes, if the parents bring them in, and other parents are okay with their children eating them, the school has no right to "ban" them. IMHO
Yeah schools shouldn't be banning anything if the parents are providing those cakes and candy. This liberalism of telling people what to eat and do has gotten way out of control.

[PrezLeefun]

I am ok with the school not providing sweets. But parents bring it in for their own children then it isnt a problem.

But Homes I think it is a true folly to not give breakfast and lunch to kids at school. Its one of the few things I dont mind my tax dollars going to.

That is one thing some kids desperately need, and I think it would be unfair to take from them.

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

I am ok with the school not providing sweets. But parents bring it in for their own children then it isnt a problem.

But Homes I think it is a true folly to not give breakfast and lunch to kids at school. Its one of the few things I dont mind my tax dollars going to.

That is one thing some kids desperately need, and I think it would be unfair to take from them.

We'll have to (yet again, :smirky:) agree to disagree on this one. My husband has worked for our local school board for 26 years. I know all about the food the schools offer -- the "price" we (taxpayers) pay, for the food our kids are getting is NOT worth it. There USED to be a time when schools did not provide food. Then it became "necessary" to povide lunch, then breakfast, and in some places even dinner now. That's ridiculous. We have schools to educate our children. They are not daycare centers, nor should they be.

Of course, we are way overdue for the education system to change with the times. The farther removed the parents become in their involvement with their children's education, the more power we grant the "state" to indoctrinate instead of educate.

[PrezLeefun]

Feeding kids.... many of whom are needy is not indoctrination. I know some of my cousins would have gone hungry if it were not for school breakfast and lunch programs. Would that be ok with you?

[buckeyepete]

Sounds like a good plan to me!-----------Take away food and spend the money on more condoms and birth control pills.

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

Feeding kids.... many of whom are needy is not indoctrination. I know some of my cousins would have gone hungry if it were not for school breakfast and lunch programs. Would that be ok with you?

Now you're sounding like the democrats, insinuating I want little kids to starve. :rolleyes:

Just because someone has become dependent upon something, doesn't make it good or right. Why would your cousings have gone hungry? Could it be because we live under an unfair tax system that penalizes folks who achieve, succeed and work? Could it be because we have made folks like suckling pigs reliant on the teat of government handouts? Could it be a cycle of dependence has made it practically impossible for people to break out and break free?

Or could it be because no one would have cared that they were hungry? That one I simply don't believe.

I have much more faith in the American people than to blindly trust the government to provide all our needs. As I said, if parents are more closely involved in their children's education, they prevent a lot of the subtle, sneaky attempts at indoctrination.

You may not be able to see it in a school lunch, but I sure can. Every little thing that is "given" by the government comes with some sort of string attatched. "Free" and "Reduced" lunches carry with them the need to generate numbers, numbers which help the schools grab more dollars, dollars which usually go NOT to improvement for children, but bene's for unionized teachers, nicer furniture for offices, etc. Prez, I'm not against your cousin's, I'm against a government system that is USING folks like your cousins. There's a whole business going on behind the scenes, where you only see people you love whose tummies are growling. THIS is how an insidious liberal lie eeks and sneaks its way into a place they have no business going.

The private sector can ALWAYS do better than government dependency. If there were no more free lunches, and the private sector was allowed to solve this problem, I believe, no I absolutely trust that they would.

There's no such place as Utopia, but personal liberty is whole lot better than government depedence.

[PrezLeefun]

Fair enough.

[DesertFox]

Our idiot school board has decided that campus clubs cannot sell energy drinks (we sell to raise funds for our activities). Doesn't matter that the kids just buy them elsewhere and carry them to school in their backpacks. The district hasn't done a single thing to stop kids from getting energy drinks, which have nothing illegal in them anyway; but it has taken away a source of income for school clubs.

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

Our idiot school board has decided that campus clubs cannot sell energy drinks (we sell to raise funds for our activities). Doesn't matter that the kids just buy them elsewhere and carry them to school in their backpacks. The district hasn't done a single thing to stop kids from getting energy drinks, which have nothing illegal in them anyway; but it has taken away a source of income for school clubs.

Exactly, DF! As the Secretary of my daughter's Girls Weightlifting Team, I had to find out what we can and can't use for fundraisers. We have an "approved" list of items, which has been pared down in regards to food items. There's so many people (liberaloonies) sticking their noses in things they have no business being in.

When I was a kid, we sold sausage logs and cheese barrels! :smirky: We can't even sell small bags of M&M's anymore! It's ridiculous.

[Lubbock]

There are pros and cons about breakfast/free or reduced price lunches in public schools.

I am aware of the pros and the cons.

Personally, I have seen children right here in my grandchildren's elementary school who I figure get their only hot food --something that resembles a "balanced" meal, at school.

I suspect that public schools would be better off if breakfast, etc., had never been started in the first place, but I know that I personally do not begrudge children food.

I'll tell you what I really resent: The huge poster that hands in the enrance to the school, right outside the office, that informs Illegal Aliens that they have a RIGHT to attend the school: it doesn't matter whether they speak English, are living in a shelter, don't have a permanent address, don't have "papers," etc.

When my youngest grandson started kindergarten this fall, the school secretary almost drove me nuts, on the phone every day wanting his birth certificate. She got real pissy with me when I was into the third week of school and still waiting on the State of Oklahoma to send the birth certificate.

But the school can not demand a birth certificate from an Illegal.

You tell me why a school secretary can hector me , yet not even be allowed to ask a damed illegal Mexican for a birth certificate!

Free breakfast and lunch for kids is the least of our problems.

[TeenageRepublican]

My school's pretty conservative when it comes to what you can/not eat. You can buy soda, cookies, chips, etc. Basically, if you want to stuff yourself silly, you're free to do so. Here's the downside, you have to explain to your parents what you've been spending their money on. I imagine parents would be upset to learn that their kid has been spending it on twinkies and soda.

[DeclinetoState]

I was a picky eater and rarely ate school lunches; I simply brought my own. There were probably a few other "brown baggers" (although most use lunch boxes).

Food that has to be "mass-produced" and "mass-distributed" will probably not be that good in quality, and often kids will take only a bite or two then chuck the rest (or trade with their friends). Still, for a lot of crumb crunchers, it's better than nothing, I guess.

[CzechPrince]

There are pros and cons about breakfast/free or reduced price lunches in public schools.

I am aware of the pros and the cons.

Personally, I have seen children right here in my grandchildren's elementary school who I figure get their only hot food --something that resembles a "balanced" meal, at school.

I suspect that public schools would be better off if breakfast, etc., had never been started in the first place, but I know that I personally do not begrudge children food.

I'll tell you what I really resent: The huge poster that hands in the enrance to the school, right outside the office, that informs Illegal Aliens that they have a RIGHT to attend the school: it doesn't matter whether they speak English, are living in a shelter, don't have a permanent address, don't have "papers," etc.

When my youngest grandson started kindergarten this fall, the school secretary almost drove me nuts, on the phone every day wanting his birth certificate. She got real pissy with me when I was into the third week of school and still waiting on the State of Oklahoma to send the birth certificate.

But the school can not demand a birth certificate from an Illegal.

You tell me why a school secretary can hector me , yet not even be allowed to ask a damed illegal Mexican for a birth certificate!

Free breakfast and lunch for kids is the least of our problems.

I agree with 100% of everything you stated here. When my mom was a teacher, there was always 1 kid in her class she would pack an extra lunch for, because they had nothing to eat.

[Antigone]

I was a picky eater and rarely ate school lunches; I simply brought my own. There were probably a few other "brown baggers" (although most use lunch boxes).

Food that has to be "mass-produced" and "mass-distributed" will probably not be that good in quality, and often kids will take only a bite or two then chuck the rest (or trade with their friends). Still, for a lot of crumb crunchers, it's better than nothing, I guess.

I don't know about you, but I could have done without the rock hard pears, mushy peas and "green" carrots myself.

I took a lunchbox pretty much every day. You could get anyone to do anything you dang near wanted if you had a Ding Dong as trading stock. And a snack pak pudding..........man, that was gold. How many kids do you suppose cut their tongues licking that silly pop top lid? :biggrin:

[DeclinetoState]

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