With mandatory cupcake occasions like birthdays, Halloween and Valentine's Day, the American elementary school has a rich tradition of rich frosting. Sadly, yet another town has banned cupcakes and other sweets from its schools.The poor, deprived children of Neenah, Wisc., have become the latest in a growing number of schools to ban any snacks but the fruit or vegetable variety for sharing with classmates. The school board says the rule is meant to encourage healthy eating choices, but parents argue that banning sweets completely is too extreme and eliminates any "choice" from the matter.
At least it's a win for the kids who have summer birthdays. They won't have to worry about foisting room-temperature cauliflower florets on their classmates. We sincerely hope ranch dressing is not considered a sweet.
Dunno about you, but we need some baked-goods porn after that harrowing news. Scroll through the cute cupcakes below; click here to send us your own, and enjoy!
Cute Cupcakes
Ninja panda cupcakes
Happy bug
A sugary flower bed
Ghoulishly delicious
A horrifying treat
Sweet, sweet hamburgers
Hotdogs, anyone?
Root bear float cupcake
Monkey-cakes
Deserted island dessert
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Tuesday 14 October
By Kate
So a kid has a cupcake while they are at school and its a horrible thing to do now? One cupcake or cookie in a day isn't going to cause childhood obesity.
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Wednesday 15 October
By AC Divers
America has lost it's way... I'm am 100% for fruits, vegetables and healthy eating, but to deny kids cupcakes on special occasions is wrong-o! The more you deny them an appropriate outlet, the more you get the sneaky cupcake eaters, the overeaters, the eaters and purgers -- let's use a bit of moderation and common sense and see where that gets us.
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Wednesday 15 October
By Lisa aka Serahs
I feel for the poor kiddies. Limiting sweets is ok to me but eliminating them all together is just cruel.
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Wednesday 15 October
By Gigi
A major over reaction by the school board.
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Wednesday 15 October
By zach
lol true
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Wednesday 15 October
By sue
What a bunch of baloney by a bunch of liberal idiots. Little by little childhood is being taken away. You can take a classroom of kids to a gay wedding but ban cupcakes??????????????????What is the world coming to. I am glad that I don't have a child in school,but I do have a grandchild. They stopped having cupcakes in Fl quite a while ago.
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Wednesday 15 October
By sue
You can take a classroom of kids to a gay wedding but can't serve cupcakes for a birthday.What a croc. What is this country coming to? Another reaction by a bunch of liberal loons
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Wednesday 15 October
By sue
You can take a classroom of kids to a lesbian wedding but not serve cupcakes for a birthday? What a crock. It is a bunch of liberal loons running the schools. What is the country coming to?????
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Friday 17 October
By Alexandra
Hmm. Missed what this has to do with lesbian weddings, but anyway . . . My daughter's school (in Miami) has banned only homemade foods because the administration is paranoid about food poisoning. Last year, they asked us to bring, for Thanksgiving, a dish from our country of origin that we would normally eat on Thanksgiving, but only store bought. It was crazy. First off, I don't eat dishes from my "country of origin" on Thanksgiving (Actually, the US is my country, but my parents were born elsewhere). I eat normal American dishes like turkey. Secondly, I wouldn't know where to buy a store bought dish from my "country of origin" anyway, because we make them. I ended up buying mashed potatoes from the grocery store. Half the parents sent BREAD! With cupcakes, they make you check them in at the office, so they can make sure they're store bought.
Thursday 16 October
By Mariel
It seems to me that sweets used to be a special treat. Now kids get treats all the time. They get them at home, at school, at daycare, at the sitter's, and even at the doctor's and dentist's office. If cupcakes were truly a once-in-a-while treat, there would be no problem with childhood obesity. Besides, elementary schools used to have two or more recess periods a day, where kids ran off their steam. A little extra carbohydrate not only wasn't a bad thing, it was necessary. Now we have kids who are sugar and fat overloaded, and for "recreation," they sit around playing passive video games. Instead of milk and juice, we offer PowerAde and GatorAde in the lunch line. And you wonder why schools are banning cupcakes????
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Friday 17 October
By Renee
The fault of childhood obesity does not rely strictly with treats,,,, it comes from how many of those treats are handed out constantly and the video game and computer society we are raising our kids in. I bake continually,,, for a living also,,, and I have three very healthy non-obese children, and 6 health non-obese grandchildren,,, why???? because I make them go outside and play and only allow 1/2 hour of video games,,,, A DAY. They ride their bikes and climb trees and run, and trust me,,, they have all had their share of treats over their lives. Unplug the video games and get the kids a hobby outside!
Thursday 16 October
By Patty
Our school district has banned cupcakes for 3 years already. One parent complained and now we all have to follow their wishes. I want to go back to majority rules. What happened to that premise? It worked for hundreds of years, now we have rules rammed down our throats. We are becoming sheep and the lions are made to feel ridiculous. I am a lion but I dont want my children to suffer. Is this Russia or what? I am fed up with all this nonsense.
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Thursday 16 October
By Samara
Our schools from prek-12th grade are not allowed cupcakes in the classrooms for any reason. YET....... they can have all the sweets they can manage to eat in the lunchroom. Does that make sense??? I think the schools say no to cupcakes in class because it lowers the profit at lunchtime when the kids have to buy them. Just one woman's opinion.
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Thursday 16 October
By mary
cupcakes never hurt anyone. They say there is a safety issue involved, but no parent is going to sabotage treats.
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Thursday 16 October
By wake up amerika
NEWS FLASH THE LIBERALS TOOK OVER the country back in 1968 1970 so anything done since then can be blamed on them for doing it and put the major blame on the citizens for allowing it to happen ..remember next month is an election year and its time to vote out liberals and to prevent more liberals from being put into office. America wake up to the ultra liberal influence and do something about it before its too late
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Thursday 16 October
By Carol Hageman
Well here in Corona, Ca it also has banned cupcakes, birthday parties and anything that celebrates anything off the normal. You would think here there
would be a little give but believe me do not try to bring cupcakes to school or bring your dog on a walk to drop your kid off at school both could get you a talking to the man or woman in charge.
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Thursday 16 October
By Lillian
With all the restrictions we are only creating more neurotic children that is going to grow up move away and overindulge. Yep! I mean what I say mark my words: To much control add up to be defiant behavior later on.
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Friday 17 October
By Renee
God save us from the other parents who try to micro-manage our own children,,, no prayer in school, no this, no that,,, now no cupcakes?? Give me a break. I agree with the previous poster,,,, Majority should rule. I would be more inclined to vote on a dress code getting rid of belly shirts and saggy jeans (or just as bad,, too tight jeans) and let the kids eat cake!!
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Tuesday 28 October
By katy
WHY THE CUPCAKES????!!!! thats going too far at least allow muffins
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