....and THIS is the head of the Agriculture Department. I also shake my head.
Posted on 02/12/2015 7:36:58 AM PST by Phillyred
When it comes to school fundraisers, bake sale tables loaded with sugary goodies are out. Fun runs, auctions and sales of healthier treats are in.
Government rules requiring many schools to hold more nutritious fundraisers, along with a trend toward healthier eating in schools, could mean trouble for the long-beloved bake sale. In response, schools are selling everything from fruit to kid-friendly shoelaces.
The Agriculture Department rules, which kicked in last summer, require all foods sold on school campuses during the school day to meet certain nutrition standards. The rules include fundraisers, if states don't exempt themselves. Fewer than half of states have used the exemptions, according to the National Association of State Boards of Education.
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Congress passed the school food standards in 2010, and they are part of a larger government effort championed by first lady Michelle Obama. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said when the bill was passed that he would allow the exemptions for fundraisers, leaving that issue up to the states. The rules say the exemptions should allow "infrequent" fundraisers, but USDA did not define infrequent. [SNIP]
In all, 22 states have created exemptions for fundraisers, according to the state education boards group. Last summer, Georgia decided that each school could have 30 fundraisers a year that don't meet the nutrition standards, and that each of those fundraisers could last at least three days. Officials there said the federal rules were overreach. [SNIP]
Last week, Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Diane Douglas said the state would move to exempt fundraisers after she heard that a school couldn't sell snow cones. "The thought that a federal bureaucrat knows better than parents what they can feed their own families is condescending and reprehensible," Douglas said.
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My grandchildren aren’t born yet, but by the time they go to school, homeschooling will be illegal.
The whole of the USA has turned into one big Monty Python skit.
I remember it just like it was tomorrow...
It was the Johnsonville School district Broccoli
sale... Great times eh.
Bake sales work because there’s a market WANTING THE PRODUCT.
Tyranny is only concerned with what the TYRANT wants.
This is absurd in many ways. But the major thing which strikes me, is that we have bureaucrats in Washington, DC, telling schools how to run a fundraiser or bake sale. We are getting federal bureaucrats involved in the details of what is sold at a school fundraiser. Is this really the business of the federal government in the first place????
The final irony will be that in five years Michelle Obama will be photographed sixty pounds heavier.
....and THIS is the head of the Agriculture Department. I also shake my head.
It’s not even the business of the state goverment...heck not even the county should be involved!
In the late 60’s our high school clubs would raise funds with a car bash - ten cents a swing with a sledge hammer on a junk automobile. Imagine trying that in our wuss culture now.
Agreed. Let the school PTA decide what happens at bake sales. Sheesh.. We have lost a lot of just plain common sense in this country.
I’ll bet if you look at the copies of the original Bill of Rights, you won’t find the 9th and 10th amendments in there. Using some sort of scientific process, they’ve excised those from the Bill of Rights.
Some day, some state AG is going to go into a Federal court and start pounding the 10th, and the judge is going to say ‘what are you talking about? There’s no 10th amendment, man. Do you have another argument to make?’
“The thought that a federal bureaucrat knows better than parents what they can feed their own families is condescending and reprehensible,”
condescending and reprehensible, isn’t that the basic definition of all dem libs?
We had those smash an old car fundraisers too
Hard as heck to dent those old cars...wonder
how these new cars would fare.
Disgusting how Moochele took over school lunch
programs in this country.
Congress passed the school food standards in 2010”
What congress should do is expand this program to ALL Federal Agencies, Departments, and Buildings, including the White House and Congress. See how they like it then.
“Bake sales are fun...
Not only are they fun.. but many of the Mom really, REALLY outdo themselves (perhaps to show their baking abilities). Homemade brownies (not from a box) are sinful. Same with made from scratch cookies, cupcakes, madeleines, toffee, crumb cakes etc... Many show their ethnic goodies as well. Greek, Italian, Eastern European etc.. It is a great way to sample some goodies you may never have tried before.
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