How do students often raise money for their school organizations? A bake sale. But not in New York City. The cabal of tyrants who rule the city have decided (a) too many fat kids is a problem and (b) banning bake sales in public schools is a solution. As if buying a brownie at a back sale explains why half of America is fat.
So now students who for some reason still care about their failing public schools and who want to do something positive to improve them will no longer have a useful and effective way to raise funds. So much for school spirit!
Similar regulations are enforced in various school systems across the country. "Schools around the United States, including throughout California, have banned bake sales or put a limit on the sugar and fat content of the goodies. But New York’s regulations are among the strictest in the country..." And exactly what do these regulation accomplish? Apparently nothing because "Roughly 40 percent of the city’s elementary and middle school students are overweight or obese, according to the [NYC] Education Department." In other words, these policies in NYC schools and else where have no positive effect; they are failures; they serve no demonstrable purpose. They are merely exercises in petty tyranny by useless busybodies who claim the right and duty to police what people eat for as long as those unfortunate people are within their jurisdiction.
Just another reason why abolishing public schools altogether is looking more and more attractive as time goes by.
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