They will be passing out bananas instead. With the condoms of course.
But wait....they'll get instead an extra-special birthday pencil!!! And a dragon sticker! Wouldn't that make you feel so special? </sarcasm>
The problem is not that these kids are celebrating a classmate's birthday with a cupcake every once in a while. The problem is that they are going home to parents who let them constantly stuff their faces with Twinkies and Ho-hos and sit on their rear-ends playing video games without any physical activity or encouragement to eat nutritious foods.
It's probably the parents of some poor kid who is not allowed to eat sweets. They don't want their little darling to be tempted.
Just plain mean. When I was a kid we used to look forward to class christmas, birthday and Halloween parties because we got to eat stuff like that in class. It was just for a day and it didn't make us fat. How ridiculous is this. These kids are fat because they are not exercising enough when they are HOME and NOT because of a simple cupcake on special occasions.
OMIGOD!
The evil cupcakes have been brought down.
Bad bad cupcake.
Bad.
I'm gonna make some cupcakes today, yum!
We are becoming a nanny-State, which is a by-product of feminism. Let's see, there are smoking bans, gun bans, sweets bans, father's rights bans. They've banned the military from using both hands against our enemies in warfare, and they've banned your choice whether or not to wear your seat belt. They've banned Creche scenes on public property, they've banned school prayer. They've even banned the ban on partial-birth-abortion.
Hmmmmm....I was a child some 50 years ago and don't remember this particular "ritual." Valentine's cupcake parties, yes, but not cupcakes for each kid's birthday.
Reason #483 to homeschool. Although, I suppose quite a few of them could all be lumped together under The Banner of Stupidity.
Frequent classmate parties once had students consuming numerous unplanned cupcakes each school year.
I'm quite certain we don't even have a word in our language to describe how incredibly stupid this statement is. Numerous unplanned cupcakes? Did a large quantity of miniature cakes just spontaneously appear? Sounds like Bake Sale Heaven.
Maybe I'm missing something, but I've never sat down and planned the sequencing or quantity of my children's consumption of cupcakes. They just, uh, happen.
BUT CAN THEY READ,.. DESPITE THE BLOOM OF IMPROVED DIETARY HEALTH???(inquiring minds want to know.....)
Jackasses. If you can't get a grip on your school board, you need to put your kids in private school you like.
I guess they never heard of carrot cake cupcakes with cream cheese frosting.
Is this the school whose mascot is the "Fighting School Supplies?"
The school should be looking at the planned meals too. They are often terrible and packed with carbs.
The following are stats on childhood obesity and how it has increased over the last couple of decades. I think the schools are a large part of the problem. The school isn't interfereing with parenting. They are simply acting responsibly (for once) while the children are under their care.
From the following link:
Prevalence and Identification
About 15.5 percent of adolescents (ages 12 to 19) and 15.3 percent of children (ages 6 to 11) are obese. The increase in obesity among American youth over the past two decades is dramatic, as shown in the tables below.
Table 1.
Prevalence of Obese Children (Ages 6 to 11) at the 95th percentile of Body Mass Index (BMI)
1999 to 2000 15.3%
1988 to 1994 11%
1976 to 1980 7%
Table 2.
Prevalence of Obese Adolescents (Ages 12 to 19) at the 95th percentile of Body Mass Index (BMI)
1999 to 2000 15.5%
1988 to 1994 11%
1976 to 1980 5%
OH NO!! AN UNPLANNED CUPCAKE.......AURRRARHHHH!!!
What do you expect from people who plan every part of their lives?
Now what exactly do they have against me?;-)
PS my daughter attended a private religious kindergarten this year. Each child brought snacks for the week on a rotating schedule. Somehow even with multiple kudos bars, chips, and cheese crackers, these kids all managed to stay normal sized children. I guess the fact that recess and all the games played during it has not been outlawed at our school makes a big difference in that regard;-) It's simple--the kids play for about 20 minutes until they can't play anymore and then they come in for a well-deserved snack.
Sorry, you're banned from school.
Maybe they'll reinstate the previous banned dodgeball...and let let them throw cupcakes at each other, instead.