Follow Up: Bake Sales Saved in Massachusetts

The morons in Massachusetts have retreated. School bake sales are saved! Gov. Deval Patrick should be resign for being an idiot.

BOSTON (AP) – Cupcakes, brownies and other baked goodies will be spared the chopping block at Massachusetts schools after Gov. Deval Patrick backed down from planned regulations to prohibit the sale of the treats at bake sales during school hours.

"Nobody is interested in banning bake sales," Patrick told reporters Thursday. "We are interested in student nutrition."

The regulations, which had been set to take effect Aug. 1, were approved by state health officials charged with overseeing a new school nutrition law aimed in part at battling childhood obesity.

The ban would have prohibited the sale of sweets in schools during the school day and 30 minutes before and after the start of classes. But parents and some school officials panned the ban, saying it would make it harder to raise needed cash to help pay for activities at the schools.