"The long arm and the hungry mouth of the law"

Schools, nutrition, and bake sales collide in this recent story in the New York Times. I am all for teaching children about healthy eating and nutrition, but a cupcake ban?!! Why should school policies or state regulations take the place of ordinary common sense and self-discipline?

In Berkeley, Anna X. L. Wong, a kindergarten teacher at Jefferson Elementary, incorporates “good foods” versus “bad foods” into the curriculum and offers her students healthy snacks, including edamame.

UGH!

(Photo by D'Arcy Norman; used by permission.)