No birthday cakes for these school kids

Children in one New Zealand school can celebrate their birthdays at school but they can’t bring cakes to share with their classmates.

Oteha Valley primary school, north of Auckland, has banned birthday cakes as part of a larger fat crack-down by the area’s Ministry of Education.

Here’s why cakes are a problem: Oteha Valley has a large number of pupils born in September and October. As a aftermath, there’s the potential for up to four cakes to reach per week in some classes. Parents were starting to believe they were due to supply a cake for their child’s birthday. Since that was both unfaithful and unhealthy, the school

has advised parents in a newsletter to stop sending cakes to school.

Not such a poor notion, I’d say. What do you say?

Original post by Jacki Donaldson

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