Ohmygosh, Some Sick People Ruin Baked Gifts!!!
Decorating By texa Updated 30 May 2006 , 10:33pm by DeniseMarlaine
Not sure if this made national news or not, but it's been quite a topic of conversation locally....
Some sick-o individual delivered muffins as a 'gift' to a local high school employee's lounge, and the muffins made a bunch of people sick. Turns out they were laced with a by-product of marijuana.
There's video of the person delivering the muffins, and the FBI is involved. For those who are curious, here's a local link:
http://cbs11tv.com/topstories/local_story_138204052.html
What really bugs me is that I can foresee schools passing regulations banning anyone bringing 'homemade' goods to share in schools, at both the student and employee level. 
I am HOPING that common sense will prevail, and maybe it would be a reasonable reaction that any foods delivered to a school should be checked in through the office and cleared for distribution. (Honestly, how many times would a completely-unknown stranger try to deliver food to a school?!)
I would hate to lose my favorite venue for practice cakes!
What is wrong with people????? Just plain scary.
Angie
I am in West Virginia and my son attends a local college for his 3-year-old pre-school class. We were only allowed to bring snacks on their birthday and they had to be store bought and individually wrapped.
That didn't stop me from making gifts for the teachers though!!
such a policy of homemade banned from students already exists in the county I teach in.
Couple years back, a mom made cupcakes for her child to take to school for birthday celebration. Other children got sick, their parents sued...and so now all food must be commercially prepared.
at least the teachers can indulge...but even there, most leary and stick to commercial.
My kids schools allow no food brought from parents for students. Not for birthdays or parties. You can't even bring packaged candy that is in its sealed packages. Safety reasons; you never know. Its better to be safe than sorry. But we have teachers luncheons all the time and all of us parents bring homemade goods there.
I am in West Virginia and my son attends a local college for his 3-year-old pre-school class. We were only allowed to bring snacks on their birthday and they had to be store bought and individually wrapped.
That didn't stop me from making gifts for the teachers though!!
That's understandable, It's just a shame that things have come to that. Now with this kind of thing on the news, it may give people ideas!
Home-made goodies may be the lesser evil. 
In the "From Bad To Worse" Category, we have another local news incident where a disgruntled customer, over a period of MONTHS, sprinkled dried, grated human feces on the baked goods in a grocery store.
http://www.wral.com/irresistible/5189706/detail.html
Weird that the active links I Googled for this were from Colorado and North Carolina -- not Texas! But this was another Dallas incident. I have a theory: too much heat + too much concrete = random insanity. 
gross!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! another reason for me not to buy my baked goods just make them myself!!!!!
i guess i had better consider myself lucky both my son's pre-school and now his 6th grade let homebaked goods into the school for parties and functions. it's makes me think twice about complaining that when my son signs my up for things (i think i had a good reason this past time 2 cakes & 2 batches of brownies in a weeks time) i was a little busy.
My kids' school has never let us bring in anything home-made. Even cake walks, bake sales, etc., have to be store-bought, and snacks have to be single-pack prewrapped etc. Super annoying, but I see the other side--I don't always trust other people's baking skills or know how clean their kitchen is...I've never questioned what someone would knowingly put IN the food, though. wow.
That's insane! Not surprising, though, unfortunately. The kids in my community aren't allowed to bring in homemade goods for their classes; it's a relatively new rule, but I don't think it's statewide--or even county wide for that matter, just our little town.
On a similar note, have you guys heard about the laxative brownies incident in Maine recently? A mom helped her teenage daughter and her friend make brownies laced with laxatives to give to one of the girls' teachers. I know that's always been kind of a practical joke (a mean one, but still fairly common), but this time I think they're going to be charged with misdemeanor assault.
What's wrong with people? I don't know what would possess someone to do such things!
My kid's school doesn't allow baked goods given out either. They must be packed and store bought...Now I know why! These sick thoughts never crossed my mind, it really upsets me!
What really bugs me is that I can foresee schools passing regulations banning anyone bringing 'homemade' goods to share in schools, at both the student and employee level.
THIS has already happened in many many states and on the German base we were stationed at. I imagine it won't be long before all states do that. As it is it's not Virginia law or reg yet but I know of 4 schools around here that have done that.
cant even do the prepackaged ones in our town, they are allowed only 2 parties per school year and if you do get to bring anything it has to be the healthy stuff like trail mix and granola, not that its a bad thing but i remember when your mom bringing cupcakes to school for your birthday was a big deal. Its jsut changed so much over the years
Hi Ya'll,
I got started in decorating so I could make cool baked goods like my Mom did for my DD's. California does not allow any homemade goods either. 
OH well, I do enjoy being "Miss Betty Crocker/Martha Stewart" at work. 
But I still think it stinks that I can't be the Kool-aid Mom at the school. Luckily, I do get to support the school by using my sewing skills.
Yep, no homemade treats in our school district or even at the private school where DD went to Kindergarten. That was fine w/me b/c I always wonder about how sanitary some people are, etc., like someone else said. As a teacher, I never ate anything my students brought me for the same reason and I wouldn't trust anyone not to do something nasty to them, either!
my daughters school still allows baked goods. In fact, at her elementary school is a election location. As a fund raiser they have a bake sale on the same days as elections. They made good money as they had a "captive" audience while they were waiting in line to vote. I wonder how much longer they will be allowed to have the bake sale. Such a shame that some people ruin it for everyone. I always love picking up something different from bakes sales.
Our schools around here don't allow any baked goods either unless it's store bought. It's really to bad, my 8 year old wanted me to take cupcakes in for his class so bad. He just couldn't understand why I couldn't.
I actually live in Maine and when I first started reading this line I was thinking that I needed to include that story but it is scary that you all already have heard about it. I remember that I made food as projects while in school and I have done things for my nieces and nephews and I hope that this does not stop me from being able to continue it. I know that you have to be cautious of what it brought it but Home made snacks always beat those prepackaged, old crappy things.
it has been the rule for a few years that no homemade goods can be brought to school,except for bake sales or pta carnivale games etc. i was told that it was because some kids had allergies to certain things(peanut-berries-milk etc) and to keep it safe the goodies had to be individually wrapped and store bought. one teacher ignored this for me a few yrs ago because i had made a cake for my daughters christmas party (not yet knowing about the rule) and she really liked it, so she kept it and i think the teachers ate it haha ate least it got ate and not by me ...haha
i agree that this is a bit extreme though--didn't we all bring food to class parties when we were kids?? arent we all ok?? i never heard of any kid getting sick at school from bad baked goods when i was in school!!
of course i do also have four kids so if this was not the rule i would never be able to leave the kitchen!! 
[quote="tabs8774"]didn't we all bring food to class parties when we were kids?? arent we all ok?? i never heard of any kid getting sick at school from bad baked goods when i was in school!![quote]
yes...but that was back in a time when we still believed in indivdual responsibility
when we didn't always seek someone to "blame" to make it "not my fault"
when we didn't have a society so seeped in the idea of "I'll sue" so that everyone is forced to cover their tookus to make sure they are the one sued.
when we still allowed for the concept that "accidents happen -- live and learn" instead of "who can I blame" & "can I sue and make some money off of this"
when we didn't live in a society that feels "revenge -- the best medicine" was the norm (as in those exlax brownies, road rage, etc."
I fear we have become far more cruel and uncaring, a less friendly, more mistrusting people.
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