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| Subject: Idiots: NZ school bans birthday cake Fri Apr 04, 2008 7:25 am | |
| WELLINGTON - CHILDREN in a New Zealand school have been banned from bringing cakes to share on their birthdays, due to new government healthy eating guidelines.
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.
The Ministry of Education has been on a fat-busting crusade, introducing sweeping guidelines against unhealthy food in New Zealand schools.
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.
It had got to the point where parents thought they were required to provide a cake for their child's birthday.
The school has advised parents in a newsletter to stop sending cakes to school from the next term.
http://www.straitstimes.com/Latest%2BNews/World/STIStory_223674.html |
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| Subject: Re: Idiots: NZ school bans birthday cake Fri Apr 04, 2008 5:30 pm | |
| More school fatness idiocy I read recently:
At our local library's story time this morning, for the second week in a row, I noticed that the librarian replaced the word "fat" in a text with another. For example, "big fat caterpiller" became "big ol' caterpillar." Why? Because she thought the kids would go on a fattyfatfatterson bender? |
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