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Institutional Idiocy: School bans birthday cake
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Children in a New Zealand school have been banned from bringing cakes to share on their birthdays, due to new government healthy eating guidelines.
It's OK to bring a bomb-belt though.
Pupils at Oteha Valley primary school north of Auckland have been told they are allowed to celebrate their birthdays, but the cake must stay at home, the New Zealand Herald newspaper reported.
Thank goodness! How can one have peace in the world if a birthday cake was involved?
The Ministry of Education has been on a fat-busting crusade, introducing sweeping guidelines against tasty unhealthy food in New Zealand schools.
What if it was a low-fat cake? Or hash brownies??
The Ministry of Education apparantly also is on a crusade against having fun ...
Oteha Valley has a large number of pupils born in September and October, and there can be up to four cakes a week in some classes, principal Megan Bowden told the Herald.
Oh dear! CAKE- why does it hate us?
It had gotten to the point where parents thought they were required to provide a cake for their child's birthday.
I doubt that this was enacted into law.
The school has advised parents in a newsletter to stop sending cakes to school from the next term.
Leaving the cake at home so the little monsters can eat ALL of it without sharing.
A Ministry of Education spokesman told the Herald the government guidelines only applied to food sold on the premises, and schools did not need to monitor food brought in from outside.
Posted by: Free Radical 2008-04-05
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