Parents: Bake Sales Are Critical For Struggling Schools

Photograph of PS 321 students selling baked goods during last year's election by vermilionink on Flickr

There’s one thing you don’t mess with while on the grounds of school that’s struggling financially: a parent and their homemade brownies and cookies. But it seems as though the city Department of Education doesn’t know the deal. Parents in School District 21 in Brooklyn are heated over the DOE’s new regulation that allows only one bake sale a month and desserts to be sold after 6 p.m. on weekdays.

Cecile Iacono, president of District 21’s Presidents Council, which is comprised of Parent-Teacher Association and Parent Association leaders told the Post, revenue made at the sales are vital to enhancing and providing new school programs since city and state funding has been cut. “In light of the previous and upcoming budget cuts, cutting out snack sales would be detrimental to all of us,” she said.

The changes, which also include the removal of sugary snacks from school vending machines, are meant to combat childhood obesity. Iacono said, "Banning snack sales is not an effective solution to the problem of obesity. There are better ways to improve student health at school."

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By Ellen T in News on October 25, 2009 4:25 PM

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whitecastlerock

Encourage kids to exercise at a young age and teach healthy eating habits early on as well. Abolishing bake sales and anything deemed unhealthy is moronic. Children will discover how fucking obnoxious government can be when they get older. Let them enjoy themselves now.

JLRodP

The government DOES NOT like competition. When are people going to figure that out?

If regular sheeple are allowed and able to fund programs by just selling goodies, it only discredits the government run indoctrination programs. Fundraisers give sheeple too much power.