Busybody school district bureaucrats are coming after school bake sales now [View all]

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If they had done this when I was in school, I would have participated in an underground cartel selling baked goods, candy and soda.

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Is the tradition of school bake sales nearing an end?

At a time when school communities are forced to increase fundraising efforts amid tighter budgets, one hugely popular method of raising money for the basketball team or math club is at a crossroads -- with the national fight against childhood obesity.

In Maryland's Montgomery County, bake sales are not permitted during the day and school officials keep an ear to the ground to make sure that there's no underground sales of sweets, Bloomberg Businessweek reports.

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