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CA: Central Valley school bans cupcakes in healthy food initiative
AP on Bakersfield Californian ^ | 9/4/07 | AP

Posted on 09/04/2007 12:22:22 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

A Fresno elementary school became the latest to ban cupcakes and other sugary treats in favor of healthier snacks this week.

School officials at Roosevelt Elementary School say the move is part of a districtwide initiative to improve student nutrition.

As part of the effort, the school substituted its "Donuts with Dad" event scheduled for later this week for one called "Fruit with Dad."

Officials say they're also giving students more whole-grain bread and reduced-fat cheese, and cutting out high-sugar breakfast cereals and soft drinks in vending machines.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: California
KEYWORDS: bans; centralvalley; cupcakes; foodpolice; healthyfood; nutrition; school
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To: A knight without armor

I feel like Alice...............


21 posted on 09/04/2007 12:51:56 PM PDT by Red Badger (ALL that CARBON in ALL that oil & coal was once in the atmospere. We're just putting it back!)
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To: gracesdad

I know. It is sad.


22 posted on 09/04/2007 12:54:35 PM PDT by Jemian (PAM of JT ~~ Liberalism only works in the abstract.)
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To: gracesdad
The primary culprit in th decline of “recess” is the enormous rise in state and federal standardized tests that have to be passed because of NCLB and state standards.

Huh? When I was a kid in the 60s we had standardized tests every year in elementary school. They were called the "Iowas" or something like that (this was in in NY state). We also had standardized state tests called the "Regents" for all our high school classes.

Despite all this testing, we still had time for recess and study hall. We also ate cupcakes.

23 posted on 09/04/2007 1:04:05 PM PDT by BigBobber
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To: brownsfan

This part of California (where I live) is the Central Valley and VERY conservative. Check the red-blue map from 2004... the center of the state is solid red for W.


24 posted on 09/04/2007 1:16:02 PM PDT by TenthAmendmentChampion (Global warming is to Revelations as the theory of evolution is to Genesis.)
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To: Jemian

Right on target I would say.


25 posted on 09/04/2007 1:18:24 PM PDT by freekitty (May the eagles long fly over our beautiful and free American sky.)
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To: NormsRevenge

They want to make sure that the cupcakes don’t interfere with the psychotropic drugs that they are pumping children full of.


26 posted on 09/04/2007 1:26:26 PM PDT by achilles2000 (Shouting "fire" in a burning building is doing everyone a favor...whether they like it or not)
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To: gracesdad

Its really funny. Most of the people who advocate limiting what kids at eat at school probably come from the left side of the spectrum. As a result, Religion, or God are probably not part of their everyday lives. Most probably believe in evolution...... You see where I am going with this? I will probably be run up the flag pole for this, but people can’t have it both ways. The school might not have to give them cupcakes, but I have the right to send my child with a cupcake if I so choose. I pay for his education. BTW, my kid is as fit as a fiddle and nary an ounce of body fat. He is active and not a couch potato. I say, there is your real dilemna. Oh ya and genetics play a big part too. Some people are big because they are wired that way. I say, let them eat cake. It is not going to matter.


27 posted on 09/04/2007 1:30:15 PM PDT by Bruinator
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To: NormsRevenge

(Under age 40? You won’t understand.)

You could hardly see for all the snow,
Spread the rabbit ears as far as they go.
Pull a chair up to the TV set,
“Good Night, David. Good Night, Chet.”

My Mom used to cut chicken, chop eggs and spread mayo on the same cutting board with the same knife and no bleach, but we didn’t seem to get food poisoning.

My Mom used to defrost hamburger on the counter AND I used to eat it raw sometimes, too. Our school sandwiches were wrapped in wax paper in a brown paper bag, not in ice-pack coolers, but I can’t remember getting e.coli.

Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the lake instead of a pristine pool (talk about boring), no beach closures then.

The term cell phone would have conjured up a phone in a jail cell, and a pager was the school PA system.

We all took gym, not PE ... and risked permanent injury with a pair of high top Ked’s (only worn in gym) instead of having cross-training athletic shoes with air cushion soles and built in light reflectors. I can’t recall any injuries but they must have happened because they tell us how much safer we are now.

Flunking gym was not an option ... even for stupid kids! I guess PE must be much harder than gym.

Speaking of school, we all said prayers and sang the national anthem, and staying in detention after school caught all sorts of negative attention.

We must have had horribly damaged psyches. What an archaic health system we had then. Remember school nurses? Ours wore a hat and everything.

I thought that I was supposed to accomplish something before I was allowed to be proud of myself.

I just can’t recall how bored we were without computers, Play Station, Nintendo, X-box or 270 digital TV cable stations.

Oh yeah ... and where was the Benadryl and sterilization kit when I got that bee sting? I could have been killed!

We played ‘king of the hill’ on piles of gravel left on vacant construction sites, and when we got hurt, Mom pulled out the 48-cent bottle of Mercurochrome (kids liked it better because it didn’t sting like iodine did) and then we got our butt spanked.

Now it’s a trip to the emergency room, followed by a 10-day dose of a $49 bottle of antibiotics, and then Mom calls the attorney to sue the contractor for leaving a horribly vicious pile of gravel where it was such a threat.

We didn’t act up at the neighbor’s house either because if we did, we got our butt spanked there and then we got butt spanked again when we got home.

I recall Donny Reynolds from next door coming over and doing his tricks on the front stoop, just before he fell off. Little did his Mom know that she could have owned our house. Instead, she picked him up and swatted him for being such a goof. It was a neighborhood run amuck.

To top it off, not a single person I knew had ever been told that they were from a dysfunctional family. How could we possibly have known that?

We needed to get into group therapy and anger management classes? We were obviously so duped by so many societal ills that we didn’t even notice that the entire country wasn’t taking Prozac! How did we ever survive?

LOVE TO ALL OF US WHO SHARED THIS ERA, AND TO ALL WHO DIDN’T; SORRY FOR WHAT YOU MISSED.

I WOULDN’T TRADE IT FOR ANYTHING.

Pass this to someone and remember that life’s most simple pleasures are very often the best.


28 posted on 09/04/2007 1:36:58 PM PDT by freekitty (May the eagles long fly over our beautiful and free American sky.)
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To: netmilsmom

You dont get it...you can no longer send cupcakes with your OWN kids...they have been banned...

Soon...only criminals will have cupcakes...

*smirk*


29 posted on 09/04/2007 1:47:32 PM PDT by Crim (Dont frak with the Zeitgeist....)
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To: Crim

If you have a child in school you know the word “snack” means those foods eaten outside of lunch.

Not part of lunch.

I don’t want 30 moms trying to out do eachother finding the biggest, best, sugariest cupcakes for their child’s birthday and thinking it’s okay because she brought milk, EVERYDAY.

No thanks.


30 posted on 09/04/2007 2:20:30 PM PDT by netmilsmom (To attack one section of Christianity in this day and age, is to waste time .)
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To: A_Tradition_Continues

>>How terrible of you!!! Don’t you know there may be a child within a 10 mile radius of you that may be “allergic” to peanuts.<<

We even pack PB&J to take to the park.
Kids better stay away from me. LOL!


31 posted on 09/04/2007 2:23:40 PM PDT by netmilsmom (To attack one section of Christianity in this day and age, is to waste time .)
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To: Tamar1973

>>Yum! Can I come to your house for lunch! : )<<

Come on by tomorrow Tamar! Are you up to teaching 4th grade math? If not, you can be the lunch lady.


32 posted on 09/04/2007 2:25:57 PM PDT by netmilsmom (To attack one section of Christianity in this day and age, is to waste time .)
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To: NormsRevenge

You know something?I WISH someone had banned that crap when I was going to school.I was a dumb kid with no nutritional sense whatsoever.I consumed the worst garbage all through school.A lemon pie,sugar cookie,greasy hamburger and milk was my lunch in high school.I swilled gallons of sodas and quarts of ice cream monthly.
I was a very sickly child as a reult and still am feeling the effects of thirty years of that “food”.
I know The State is not supposed to usurp free choice and maybe this makes me a liberal on this issue but I am GLAD Fresno banned cupcakes.Most of Fresno schoolkids are Latino and they have the highest diabetes rate of any group.MAYBE this will alleviate some health care costs in the future.


33 posted on 09/04/2007 2:30:48 PM PDT by Riverman94610
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To: Jemian

How about having a real PE class every day where they learn how to play different games and exercise?

They could make PE really fun with Jazzercise or Martial Arts.

Heck, I think it would be fun to hook up a big screen version of Dance Dance Revolution and have the kids do that together.


34 posted on 09/04/2007 2:32:24 PM PDT by luckystarmom
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To: netmilsmom
Come on by tomorrow Tamar! Are you up to teaching 4th grade math? If not, you can be the lunch lady.

I wish I could...*sigh* have to work, though!

35 posted on 09/04/2007 2:35:10 PM PDT by Tamar1973 (Riding the Korean Wave, one BYJ movie at a time! (http://www.byj.co.kr))
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To: A_Tradition_Continues

I know the peanut police can be irritatingly intrusive, but please be kind enough not to mock the children who are actually ALLERGIC to peanuts. Thanks.


36 posted on 09/04/2007 2:41:59 PM PDT by brothers4thID (FDT: "Every notice that while our problems are getting bigger, our politicians are getting smaller?")
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To: freekitty

Loved your post. I thought my mother was the only person who defrosted hamburger meat on the counter. I don’t think that she ever looked for an expiration date on any jar or can in her entire life. We joke with her about it. It’s a miracle all her kids are still alive! LOL.


37 posted on 09/04/2007 2:49:18 PM PDT by nicksaunt
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To: nicksaunt

LOL


38 posted on 09/04/2007 3:17:29 PM PDT by freekitty (May the eagles long fly over our beautiful and free American sky.)
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To: nicksaunt

The only problem my mother had was her great dane would put her head on the counter and take a frozen roast and eat it. It took my mother a while to figure that one out. LOL


39 posted on 09/04/2007 3:19:12 PM PDT by freekitty (May the eagles long fly over our beautiful and free American sky.)
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To: brothers4thID
but please be kind enough not to mock the children who are actually ALLERGIC to peanuts.

You know, there are kids out there that have allergies to a multitude of things. I don't see school administrators banning things that contain grains such as wheat or flour. Come on now...why should we kiss the butts of one or two people? I have allergies to grass pollen. Did my parents demand that the schools I attended remove all grass on campus and filter all air in the classrooms? Did they demand that the football field be covered with artificial tuff? NO! I was taught how to deal with the situation.

40 posted on 09/04/2007 3:19:17 PM PDT by A_Tradition_Continues (THE NEXT GENERATION CONSERVATIVE)
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