Bake-In: Bring your best lemon squares!
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I would buy these over Doritos any day- wouldn't you?
On February 24, 2010 the Panel for Educational Policy voted on revisions to a regulation banning home-made foods from school fundraisers while permitting Doritos and Pop-Tarts instead. One mother, Elizabeth Puccini, stayed until 11:35pm to voice her opposition to the Regulation. She warned Chancellor Joel Klein and the members of the Panel that should the revisions pass, they would “incur the anger of many parents.” The Panel voted unanimously in favor of the revisions. Elizabeth plans to make good on her word.
Elizabeth Puccini is organizing a “Bake-In” with other parents down at City Hall in Park Row Plaza on Thursday, March 18th from 4-6pm to let the Chancellor and the Panel members see for themselves parents’ outrage. The rally will have one table featuring the approved DOE food items and another table featuring home-made foods cooked by parents and their children. The ingredients of all the foods will be on display so that the public can decide for themselves which treats are healthier for children. Hundreds of parents from all over the city are expected to turn out.
Council Member Gale A. Brewer will be attending the rally. In 2009, Council Member Brewer introduced Resolution 2300, calling on the Department of Education to amend the Chancellor’s Regulation, in order to repeal the City’s ban on the sale of baked goods from schools. Council Member Brewer will be reintroducing this resolution at the March 25, 2010 Stated Council meeting and will be seeking a public hearing on this important issue.
You can obtain information about the rally and a copy of the regulation at nycgreenschools.org.
This is a great comment. I am in total agreement. I say this in part jest but in part earnestness: maybe the “bake sales” could actually be “auction sales” and sell: babysitting for a night or a “mother’s helper”- things that parents and kids could offer their time for and get even bigger sales and no food is even offered!
I agree with the argument, in principle, that if you’re going to eat one or the other, home-baked goods are better than doritos and pop-tarts. However, I believe the real issue here is that we’re trying to instill healthier eating habits in our children, in general. Honestly, maybe our kids should be eating considerably less of BOTH. We have a serious crisis going in this country as our children’s waistlines get dangerously bigger and bigger — can’t we put all this energy into figuring out new ways to raise funds for schools that don’t involve overly-processed, white, refined flour and sugar??