First we told you about the petition to ban ice cream trucks within 1,000 feet of a school. Then we reported the petition to make cafeteria food healthier in Montclair schools. Now in a move reminiscent of the campaigns of MeMe Roth comes the latest sally in the war on calories: a proposal that the Montclair Board of Ed not just ban Girl Scout cookies from being sold at school events, but prevent troops that use school facilities from selling them … anywhere.
“It is time we stood up to the Girl Scouts of America, which coerces armies of girls into becoming unpaid sales forces of empty calories every year,” said Letitia Morehead-Wilson, a second-grade teacher in Montclair. “It’s bad enough to have Dunkin’ Donut Holes thrust in front of you at every staff meeting,” she said. “But imagine what it’s like to have 30 or 40 students or former students showing up at your classroom door annually with those order forms.”
Morehead-Wilson is the first food nanny we know of who comes from the teacher side of the debate. Usually it’s parents who start these petitions. But Morehead-Wilson points out that a teacher is not safe from crusading cookie sellers even when she’s shopping at Pathmark. ” ‘Oh Mrs. Morehead-Wilson! Mrs. Morehead-Wilson!’ ” she said, mimicking the scouts. “One year I had 58 boxes of Thin Mints in my house, sat down to watch “The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood” and consumed nine entire boxes.”
The Montclair Education Association, which represents teachers and other staff in the school, had no official comment. However, one teacher standing outside Nishuane was overheard joking, “I hope Christie doesn’t hear about this!”
Can’t this teacher just say “No, thank you.” No one is forcing her to buy the cookies.
She is a Cookie Monster!
Hear, hear Mrs. Morehead-Wilson! It’s about time a brave educator stepped forward to denounce the scourge of sugar and saturated fat that is Girl Scout Cookies. I only wish there were more like her willing to take a stand. Bravo!!
She is an April Fool.
Finally! Someone else has recognized the pernicious nature of have “girls” sell their “cookies.”
As Chris Rock stated, it’s a parent’s job to keep his daughter off the pole.
Sadly, girls selling “cookies” is just a start. Next will be slutty Halloween costumes (prof rule: okay for big girls, creepy for little girls), and “stripper” Princess heels by Disney. And who knows: maybe push up bikini tops for 8-year-olds from Abercrombie and Finch will be next……
WE MUST STAND TOGETHER!!!
Selling “cookies” is a gateway to little girls being porn “actresses.”
Cmon it is not fair to pull an April Fools joke while all these innocent parents are touring potential schools. I think CME is trying to figure out which school Mrs. Morehand-Wilson teaches in as we speak. I wonder if she drank kool aid with her thin mints???
sigh, I am so gullible…
“It is time we stood up to the Girl Scouts of America, which coerces armies of girls into becoming unpaid sales forces of empty calories every year,” said Letitia Morehead-Wilson, a second-grade teacher in Montclair.
This second grade teacher needs to do her home work. It is the GIRL SCOUTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, or GSUSA.
I think she is confused with the Boy Scouts of America (BSA).
Common founder to the Movement, (Lord Robert Baden-Powell) but two VERY VERY different and completely separate organizations.
Please tell me this is an April Fools’ Day story.
“[A] proposal that the Montclair Board of Ed not just ban Girl Scout cookies from being sold at school events, but prevent troops that use school facilities from selling them … anywhere.”
That might be difficult, since the majority of the local Girl Scout Council’s funding COMES from the products sold by the girl members and their families. In addition, the schools do charge the organization a fee to use their facilities…
Unless she wants to foot the bills and expenses herself for all the troops that use local facilities.