Posted on 08/11/2014 6:50:56 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Outrage is growing against federal restrictions on school bake sales and fundraisers.
We dont have enough teachers in our classrooms and now we are expected to hire some type of food police to monitor whether we are having bake sales or not. That is just asinine, John Barge, Georgia state school superintendent tells WSB-TV.
Barge and the state Board of Education are attempting to get an exemption from the snack rules, which would allow only 30 sales per year per school.
School leaders in other states are admitting the new regulations are actually already backfiring.
The effect has been not what was intended, says Jack Carter of Richland District 2 near Columbia, South Carolina. The effect has been kids dont eat in the cafeteria anymore, and thats nationwide, he tells WLTX.
Carter implied there will be a new type of segregation in schools those that have good lunches, and those that have Michelle Obamas.
Whats going to happen now is its going to be back to the way it was, say, 7 or 8 years ago; the only kids eating in the cafeteria are going to be the free and reduced-(price lunch) kids, because they just dont have options, he says, according to WLTX.
Georgias state school board is planning to vote on the 30 sale exemption proposal on August 21st.
Make room for one more in the unemployment line.
When do we simply start walking up to bureaucrats and terminating their sorry @$$e$? Is it 1776 yet?
Tell the bureaucrats to pi$$-off, then withhold all state money that gets sent to DC.
You wanted a king and queen? Well, you've got ‘em now.
What if these schools sold a 20’x20’ plot in the middle of the playground, sold it as private property to a food vendor, and gave them free rein to sell whatever the kids would buy?
While we can all discuss whether too many cupcakes from a bake sale are good for us, I hope we can all agree that a bureaucrat in Washington, DC, should not be making decisions about products sold at a school bake sale.
An issue such as this can be powerful for conservatives and the cause of smaller government. In this case, we can make the case that we want local school officials deciding what will be sold at your school bake sale, NOT some bureaucrat somewhere. This sort of argument will resonate with the American people.
An outbreak of common sense? Can’t allow this to continue.
My parents were probably what would now be called below the poverty line when I was growing up. I went to small parochial schools with no cafeteria, no air conditioning, in Texas. We took our lunch and the nuns made us eat it all. Bologna sandwich, Fritos, apple, a carton of milk... whole milk. Maybe a carrot stick or two. Maybe some grapes if they were in season. AND WE LIKED IT! to quote Monty Python.
By disobeying them because its the right thing to do; sort of like illegal aliens; if they don’t obey the law, why should we? The officials are just asking for it.
Another great idea from the mac daddy sock puppet f’d up team.
My kids school principal told the boosters that they could “no longer approve bake sales”...but then they also went on to say “But neither do plan to take any action if one were to occur...” so essentially the only thing that has changed is our fund raisers are now on “don’t ask, don’t tell” basic. But it gives the school some cover if they ever catch any heat, they can just say “Bake Sale? What Bake Sale? We didn’t approve any bake sales!!”
I’ve been getting really PO’d. You don’t want to see me blow. Pieces of people may show up.
Just hold bake sales off school property on afternoons and ono weekends at friendly businesses who want to cooperate with parents, and do not keep records of the number of them. Do not notify the principal, do not notify the school, and do not let anyone from the school administration have any information about where the money being donated is coming from. Help to foment a new underground economy.
How about the free-lunch crowd have to use their food stamps to pay for the cafeteria stuff? Until then, there going to whine about it to everyone else but the cafeteria and take advantage of the freebies.
I say this is good. Possibly it will teach kids and parents alike responsibility. I will bring my own lunch thank you very much! All this began with the advent of the school bus picking up the kids FOR FREE! Now it is school at 4 years on up with meals provided. I hope the revolt is overwhelming.
Many intelligent, aware parents need to repeatedly and nicely speak common sense to teachers, staff and administrators, whenever possible. Be heard, over and over. Let them know we are many. Reinforce the God-given common sense lurking under their veneers of silence.
“My parents were probably what would now be called below the poverty line when I was growing up. I went to small parochial schools with no cafeteria, no air conditioning, in Texas. We took our lunch and the nuns made us eat it all. Bologna sandwich, Fritos, apple, a carton of milk... whole milk. Maybe a carrot stick or two. Maybe some grapes if they were in season. AND WE LIKED IT! to quote Monty Python.”
OMG - sounds like my childhood lunches, right down to the contents. The small parochial school I attended would have a “Hot lunch” day about once a month in the winter. The hot lunch? Hot dogs.
Oddly, I turned out well enough. Some days I **envy** my parents - they had no overreaching FedGov trying to run their lives....and tax their honky ass out of existence.
Better days ahead, I hope. Thanks for the snapshot of childhood...
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