Comments on: High school students bring the bake sale ban protest to City Hall http://gothamschools.org/2009/11/13/high-school-students-bring-the-bake-sale-ban-protest-to-city-hall/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:27:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Frances Wertimer http://gothamschools.org/2009/11/13/high-school-students-bring-the-bake-sale-ban-protest-to-city-hall/comment-page-1/#comment-236933 Frances Wertimer Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:57:29 +0000 http://gothamschools.org/?p=27476#comment-236933 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. 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.

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]]> By: Katy Johnson http://gothamschools.org/2009/11/13/high-school-students-bring-the-bake-sale-ban-protest-to-city-hall/comment-page-1/#comment-235463 Katy Johnson Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:15:43 +0000 http://gothamschools.org/?p=27476#comment-235463 The clubs, extracurricular activities, trips, sports tournaments, and charities that we raise money for by having bake sales are not, "unnecessary projects."  The money is not going to the PTAs, but going to the very things that make our schools so great.  It's not that anyone cares more about bake sales than "fixing the school's problems," it's that they feel that this new regulation is a ridiculous attempt to conquer the all too complex issue of childhood obesity.  In fact, I think that people shouldn't be attacking Jackson, but the politicians who created this regulation in the first place.  Maybe, the mayor and Chancellor Klein should be the ones focusing more on "fixing the school's problems" instead of creating "half-baked" regulations that don't even begin to scratch the surface of the true causes of childhood obesity. The clubs, extracurricular activities, trips, sports tournaments, and charities that we raise money for by having bake sales are not, “unnecessary projects.”  The money is not going to the PTAs, but going to the very things that make our schools so great.  It’s not that anyone cares more about bake sales than “fixing the school’s problems,” it’s that they feel that this new regulation is a ridiculous attempt to conquer the all too complex issue of childhood obesity.  In fact, I think that people shouldn’t be attacking Jackson, but the politicians who created this regulation in the first place.  Maybe, the mayor and Chancellor Klein should be the ones focusing more on “fixing the school’s problems” instead of creating “half-baked” regulations that don’t even begin to scratch the surface of the true causes of childhood obesity.

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]]> By: triple 3 http://gothamschools.org/2009/11/13/high-school-students-bring-the-bake-sale-ban-protest-to-city-hall/comment-page-1/#comment-235301 triple 3 Sat, 14 Nov 2009 06:47:49 +0000 http://gothamschools.org/?p=27476#comment-235301 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. 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.

]]> By: John Hancock http://gothamschools.org/2009/11/13/high-school-students-bring-the-bake-sale-ban-protest-to-city-hall/comment-page-1/#comment-235164 John Hancock Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:16:35 +0000 http://gothamschools.org/?p=27476#comment-235164 That sign made my day. Thanks Kaylina That sign made my day. Thanks Kaylina

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