In Cali Cupcake Cops on TCS, Andy Kessler satirizes the pieties to which elementary-school parents subscribe: No paper, no plastics, no electrolyte-replacing drinks and, now, no birthday cupcakes.
How can they take away a little sweet snack to make a kid feel special? I mean, all the kids in the class are special, sure, but on your birthday, you want that little edge. I probably wouldn’t have made it through school without my mom bringing cupcakes on my birthday. And now, poof, it’s disappeared without any discussion, no referendum, no town hall meetings, nothing. It’s un-American. I’ve decided to drive my kids to school in protest. And burn my burlap sack. I may even sneak Gatorades into backpacks.
What would the Penguin and the Peacock do?
I suggest reading it all.
Satire, shmatire. Our middle school just had a bake sale–we were allowed to bring non-nutitrious cupcakes but we weren’t allowed to bake anything. Everything sold had to have been purchased from a store first. I’m sure Albertson’s appreciated the business.
Here in Texas there are no cookies, cupcakes, etc. allowed, by state law.
I tried to read it all, but my brain exploded halfway through when I read about the female peacock.
There they go again…sucking the life out of childhood yet again. I don’t know about you, but I always have room for a cupcake and I think I turned out okay.
Well, now that a study has come out claiming that sleep in childhood may be a preventative of obesity later on, maybe they’ll mandate birthday naps as a “treat.”
I could go for mandated b-day naps!