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Jackson is such a pandering politician… why should schools sell unhealthy snacks to raise small amounts of mony for unecessary projects? Bake Sales should not be the foundation of our educational system, and yet as city council education chair, he’s more worried about bake sales than actually fixing the school’s problems that cost MILLIONS of dollars. Rubber room. ATR. Pension/Health giveaways that all can be fixed by the contract and the council, and he’s worried about $100 here and there for a PTA. Insane.

First of all, bake sales raise LARGE amounts of money. Bake sales are easily the most profitable and all-inclusive way for students to fundraise. The projects bake sales support are ANYTHING but unnecessary. Bake sales are how under-funded public schools raise the money to pay for team uniforms, school trips, art shows, science fairs, and multitudes of other excursions and projects that our learning experience WOULD NOT be the same without.

Banning bake sales does not solve the problem of obesity. Instead it hurts our public schools and the students who attend them, leaving us with less opportunities for extracurriculars and experiential education.

If the legislators who made this ban really cared about cutting back on obesity, they would make sure every public school had a proper gym. They would increase funding to sports teams and physical education programs. But they did none of these things, instead they banned bake sales, which does a lot more harm than good for public school students.