Bake Sale Ban
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PETITION: A-812
FACTS
The new change in the Regulation of The Chancellor A-812 is supposed to make schools a healthier environment for students throughout New Yorks public school system. The reform prohibits the sale of non-approved items at any time between the time school begins and 6:00 PM." This means that only food made by companies with central contracts with the DOE can sell food in school. The reform was created in order to put a stop to obesity in public schools in New York City; a New York Times article cites that 40\% of elementary and middle school students are obese. This mainly affects students' extracurricular activities and sports, who can no longer use bake sales as a fundraising tool.
ARGUMENTS
After the economic crisis in 2008, schools have continually lost massive amounts of funding from the DOE. Any student in a public high school has seen the dramatic effects of the budget cuts first-hand. Many schools can no longer afford to keep their strongest extracurricular activities running. Bake sales help make up this difference; a successful bake sale can raise between $200 and $500. By cutting out this valuable revenue, the DOE is essentially cutting off extracurricular activities from any practical method of funding. The sale of t-shirts and other material goods has been suggested, but the profit margin is significantly smaller, particularly because most students do not carry around enough spare money in their pockets to buy a t-shirt in support of an extracurricular they do not take part in. The reform enforced by Bloomberg and the DOE is ignorant of many of the benefits of bake salesnot only do they raise funds for schools, but they also help build a community. Bake sales provide an excellent opportunity for students to learn how to manage a small business and work together with their fellow classmates. Students don't only buy from bake sales because they crave sweets during the day: more often than not, they spend their dollar knowing that it is going to a worthy activity in need of the money. The ban on bake sales destroys a huge source of school spirit without any major affect on students' eating habits. The reform cannot control what students buy outside of school. If they crave cookies, then they will buy cookies. Though the reform may have been created with good intentions, it ultimately is causing the deterioration of the activities that make students enjoy school.
SOLUTION
The new reform is detrimental in a multitude of ways to the school community, as outlined in the previous section. We the undersigned propose an alternative solution: the selling and purchasing of food from student organizations be permitted during school hours, but each item must be displayed with an ingredients card. This card will list, in agreement with its name, the ingredients in the food and the number of servings produced. If 1/4 cup or more of an ingredient is used, it would be listed in bold. This is a practical approach to listing calories for baked goods, as it is nearly impossible to gauge the number of calories in a homemade product. It allows students to determine for themselves whether or not a food is too unhealthy for them to eat, without denying extracurricular activities their desperately needed fundraisers.
Please help us petition A-812
FACTS
The new change in the Regulation of The Chancellor A-812 is supposed to make schools a healthier environment for students throughout New Yorks public school system. The reform prohibits the sale of non-approved items at any time between the time school begins and 6:00 PM." This means that only food made by companies with central contracts with the DOE can sell food in school. The reform was created in order to put a stop to obesity in public schools in New York City; a New York Times article cites that 40\% of elementary and middle school students are obese. This mainly affects students' extracurricular activities and sports, who can no longer use bake sales as a fundraising tool.
ARGUMENTS
After the economic crisis in 2008, schools have continually lost massive amounts of funding from the DOE. Any student in a public high school has seen the dramatic effects of the budget cuts first-hand. Many schools can no longer afford to keep their strongest extracurricular activities running. Bake sales help make up this difference; a successful bake sale can raise between $200 and $500. By cutting out this valuable revenue, the DOE is essentially cutting off extracurricular activities from any practical method of funding. The sale of t-shirts and other material goods has been suggested, but the profit margin is significantly smaller, particularly because most students do not carry around enough spare money in their pockets to buy a t-shirt in support of an extracurricular they do not take part in. The reform enforced by Bloomberg and the DOE is ignorant of many of the benefits of bake salesnot only do they raise funds for schools, but they also help build a community. Bake sales provide an excellent opportunity for students to learn how to manage a small business and work together with their fellow classmates. Students don't only buy from bake sales because they crave sweets during the day: more often than not, they spend their dollar knowing that it is going to a worthy activity in need of the money. The ban on bake sales destroys a huge source of school spirit without any major affect on students' eating habits. The reform cannot control what students buy outside of school. If they crave cookies, then they will buy cookies. Though the reform may have been created with good intentions, it ultimately is causing the deterioration of the activities that make students enjoy school.
SOLUTION
The new reform is detrimental in a multitude of ways to the school community, as outlined in the previous section. We the undersigned propose an alternative solution: the selling and purchasing of food from student organizations be permitted during school hours, but each item must be displayed with an ingredients card. This card will list, in agreement with its name, the ingredients in the food and the number of servings produced. If 1/4 cup or more of an ingredient is used, it would be listed in bold. This is a practical approach to listing calories for baked goods, as it is nearly impossible to gauge the number of calories in a homemade product. It allows students to determine for themselves whether or not a food is too unhealthy for them to eat, without denying extracurricular activities their desperately needed fundraisers.
Please help us petition A-812
160 Signatures
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Matthew Melore
- Comments
- BAKE SALES are awesome
- NYC Student/Parent/Teacher
- Student
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Alexander Mei
- Comments
- If any unhealthy stuff should be ridden of, it should be the CAFETERIA FOOD.
- NYC Student/Parent/Teacher
- Student
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Amelia Kim
- NYC Student/Parent/Teacher
- Student
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Safanah
- NYC Student/Parent/Teacher
- Student
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Edison Liu
- NYC Student/Parent/Teacher
- Student
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Shanyce
- NYC Student/Parent/Teacher
- NYC Student
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Susan Adeyeni
- NYC Student/Parent/Teacher
- student
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Lisa Giangrande
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- A healthy lifestyle allows for cupcakes and brownies when students are offered healthy meals and physical activity. Best to the petition creators- you represent the citizenship and leadership that our communities and schools need!
- NYC Student/Parent/Teacher
- Parent Leader
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Martin Krongold
- NYC Student/Parent/Teacher
- Parent
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marianne siewers
- Comments
- The parents suppiort the school programs to bring valued differentiated instruction via creative avenues by using bake sakes etc; this move further serves to point out the split between the mayor and the Chancellor understanding education as an endeavor vs a business
- NYC Student/Parent/Teacher
- Marianne Siewers Parent
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Teresa Fazio
- NYC Student/Parent/Teacher
- Parent
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Irene Gryziec
- NYC Student/Parent/Teacher
- Parent
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Deirdre Armitage
- NYC Student/Parent/Teacher
- Parent
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yasmin batista
- NYC Student/Parent/Teacher
- mathew ciudad/yasmin batista/mrs. withers
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Edward Se
- NYC Student/Parent/Teacher
- Parent
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Steven Minkoff
- NYC Student/Parent/Teacher
- Parent
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Nicole Tolnes
- NYC Student/Parent/Teacher
- Ms. Romano
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Claire Oyelaja
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- I agree
- NYC Student/Parent/Teacher
- William Oyelaja/Claire Oyelaja/Mrs. Withers
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Kara Buzga
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- I think this regulation is far too broad and restrictive. Parents should have the right to support their school in fundraisers including bake sales. For parents who choose not to support a bake sale fund raiser the option is still open for them to choose whether to participate, or not. This proposed rule restricts parents who actively support their child's school and PTA. I'm not clear why 6:00pm is the magical time to sell food items. It is not logical that my child can not buy a food item prior to 6:00pm. I do not think the intent was to restrict parents volunteering for their child's school and/or for a PTA. However, the rule as it currently stands is far too restrictive and limiting. The parents should decide what is best for their child.
- NYC Student/Parent/Teacher
- NYC Parent
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Dr. Bertram O. Ploog
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- В
- NYC Student/Parent/Teacher
- Parent
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Lauren Martino
- NYC Student/Parent/Teacher
- Parent and future teacher
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Ingrid M. Keag
- NYC Student/Parent/Teacher
- Parent
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Sherisse Lopez
- NYC Student/Parent/Teacher
- Parent
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Barbara Montijo
- NYC Student/Parent/Teacher
- Paige & Cailtlin Montijo/Barbara Montijo/Mrs. Friedman/Mrs. McGinn
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Michael Montijo
- NYC Student/Parent/Teacher
- Parent
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Beth Servidio
- NYC Student/Parent/Teacher
- Parent
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Ann Maglio Cardone
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- This should be a parents personal choice, not a law!!
- NYC Student/Parent/Teacher
- Parent
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Pamela T. Minkoff
- NYC Student/Parent/Teacher
- Parent
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Keri Peacfock
- NYC Student/Parent/Teacher
- parent
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Kecia Lewis
- NYC Student/Parent/Teacher
- Parent
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MARIE WINSBORROW
- NYC Student/Parent/Teacher
- PARENT
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Toni
- NYC Student/Parent/Teacher
- Toni Tocco
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alison zaniewski
- NYC Student/Parent/Teacher
- parent
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Joann Wojcik
- NYC Student/Parent/Teacher
- Parent
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Elizabeth Elrod
- NYC Student/Parent/Teacher
- Abigail Petrassi/Elizabeth Elrod/Mrs. Vega
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Thea Jon Curry
- NYC Student/Parent/Teacher
- Parent
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Kristen Reilly
- NYC Student/Parent/Teacher
- Parent
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Janine Teitler
- NYC Student/Parent/Teacher
- Sean Teitler/Janine Teitler/Mrs. Barnes
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eileen jordan
- NYC Student/Parent/Teacher
- parent
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JEANNE JOHNSON
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- The idea of curtailing parent participation in fundraising during this time of severe budget cuts is beyond comprehension. One would think that those in power would welcome any financial support available. While I understand that Pepsico is guaranteeing a certain profit to the city it will not supplant the funding lost in individual school programs that encourage and engage our children in healthy physical activity which will do more to curb obesity than merely preventing the students from eating sweets during school hours. Diet without exercise is not very effective. Please use your authority to bring common sense to this situation.
- NYC Student/Parent/Teacher
- Parent
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sheila watson
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- strongly oppose changes to pta regs.
- NYC Student/Parent/Teacher
- Kyle Watson/Sheila Watson/Ms. Zarella
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Sharon
- NYC Student/Parent/Teacher
- very concerned and upset Parent
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Patricia Fitzgerald
- NYC Student/Parent/Teacher
- Parent
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Dayna Gelfand
- NYC Student/Parent/Teacher
- Ava Gelfand/Dayna Gelfand/Mrs. Tina Persiballi
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Diane Wellington
- NYC Student/Parent/Teacher
- Parent
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Josephine Brigandi
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- I think u should concentrate on learning materials more than banning food
- NYC Student/Parent/Teacher
- Parent
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Latifa Benson
- NYC Student/Parent/Teacher
- Nia Okunbor/Mrs.Benson/Mrs.DiPerte
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Christina Eadicicco
- NYC Student/Parent/Teacher
- Elizabeth Eadicicco/Christina Eadicicco/Mrs Doria
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Melissa Krajnak
- NYC Student/Parent/Teacher
- Jackson Krajnak/Melissa Krajnak/Mrs. Satt, Mrs. Pecora
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Toni Esposito
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- Richmond
- NYC Student/Parent/Teacher
- Toni Esposito
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