I might be willing to concede that Childhood obesity is an actual area of concern, but the roots of the problem are far deeper then sodas and cupcakes at school.  The availability of lousy food and a sedentary culture are far more to blame. 

School district bans candy, cakes, and cookies

Kids might see it as a trick, but there will be no traditional treats, including candy, at this year’s Halloween parties in the East Syracuse-Minoa schools.

And class birthday parties this fall are taking on a new flavor because cupcakes, cookies and cakes have been banned.

ES-M has become the first district in Central New York to prohibit outright sweet desserts in classroom celebrations. Chances are pretty good others in the region will follow, school nutrition experts say.

Schools around the country are cracking down on cupcakes in the classroom, even though some parents say the policies go too far. The cupcake ban is just one of many steps schools are taking to help curb childhood obesity.

The problem is that the schools and the government are not the ones who should be dealing with Childhood obesity in the first place, at least not as the primary focal point of response.

The homes are.

The second bit of school weirdness is from the UK, but no less weird.

Teachers’ Muslim dress order

A SCHOOL was yesterday accused of MAKING teachers dress up as Asians for a day – to celebrate a Muslim festival.

Kids at the 257-pupil primary have also been told to don ethnic garb even though most are Christians.

The morning assembly will be open to all parents – but dads are BARRED from a women-only party in the afternoon because Muslim husbands object to wives mixing with other men.

Just two members of staff – a part-time teacher and a teaching assistant – are Muslim.

Yesterday a relative of one of the 39 others said: “Staff have got to go along with it – or let’s face it, they would be branded racist.

“Who would put their job on the line? They have been told they have to embrace the day to show their diversity. But they are not all happy.”

The day aims to belatedly mark Eid, the end of Ramadan.

Sally Bloomer, head of Rufford primary school in Lye, West Midlands, insisted: “I have not heard of any complaints.

“It’s all part of a diversity project to promote multi-culturalism.”

All they are doing is promoting resentment.

When you add up the stories like this, and like the blog I wrote yesterday (University of Delaware indoctrinates dorm residents in mandatory anti white dogma) you start to wonder what the real purpose of schools are.  Education, as a rule no longer seems as important as social engineering.

Have we given over the shaping of our children to the schools, and let the state usurp the role of parents in shaping our children?  I think we are do so little by little as we allow such idiocy to prevail.  they take our tax money, use our own children to guilt us into giving more money (Attention Issaquah Schools Foundation: Here is how NOT to get a donation - Updated: apology added) and then give us the pay back of failure (Your tax dollars at work: 22 WA High Schools labeled Drop Out Factories).

The only winners in this game are the Government bureaucracies and the Teachers Unions.  Period.

I am going to call even more forcefully for education reform and vouchers.  Thank God my last child graduates this year, because I shudder to think what the next bunch of kids will have to deal with.

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