Whats next now? Is the Government going to limit how many times a student can go to the restroom? Or even what times they are allowed to go?!

All the schools should set up a small room as a store and sell the ice cream from there... According to the statute a school store is fine... Can anyone tell me what this statute is good for?

OMG! students can't eat ice cream every day for lunch?! what a tragedy that one of the most unhealthy foodstuffs in America won't be in the lunchroom every day. Pay no attention to the Joint Chiefs' report about obesity threatening our military readiness... Maybe the PTA should sell something healthier or something unrelated to food?

It should be noted that this is a state regulation, before all the Obama haters come out and blame him.

The PTA's do not sell Ice Cream on a daily basis. Most sell it once a week and the proceeds from the sale go back to the school. There are nutritional standards that must be met in order for the Ice Cream to be sold in the school that have been established by the U.S.D.A. As it stands, the PTA in the entire district will loose a great amount of money if this ban remains in effect. With this new ban in effect, I can only imagine what will be next. Will the school board start checking lunch boxes making sure that parents did not pack to many Twinkies or Yodels in the lunch box. If parents do not want their kids to have ice cream, do not send them to school with money.. Problem solved.. However, for most of the kids, it is a special treat to be served ice cream in school and the kids enjoy it. Hopefully this is just an oversight and the rulling will be reversed...

You cannot have ice cream in the mentally deranged world of Fuhrer Obama.

Learn your governmental structure: it's the congress you should be blaming, not the president.

I love how Seitz need to explain to Patch "that the district has no choice but comply with state law." Now he has no choice?!? Why didn't he feel compelled to comply when his contract was in dispute...another rotten politician.

New Jersey Administrative Code § 2:36-1.11 Competitive food policy

(a) The competitive food policy prohibits certain snack and beverage items by regulations promulgated by the USDA for the administration of child nutrition programs and as contained in the New Jersey School Nutrition/Wellness Policy. The following items shall not be served, sold or given away as a free promotion anywhere on school property at any time before the end of the school day, including items served in the reimbursable After School Snack Program:

1. Foods of minimal nutritional value as defined by USDA regulations;

2. All food and beverage items listing sugar, in any form, as the first ingredient (beginning September 1, 2007); and

3. All forms of candy (beginning September 1, 2007).

By the way, Hitler was responsible for the murder of 10 million people. I, too, am offended when people make Hitler references. Feel free to dislike our President, but please do so without invoking Hitler.

Clyde, get a life......

Really, ironic our FAT BULLYING governor put this into law!! Really!!!

What nex the police will be chasing ice cream trucks from staying by the schools

Hopefully this will inspire more creative fund raising efforts. Fasiciously..., Perhaps the sale of birth-control, rolling papers, or Victoria secret clothing would prove lucrative & pass government rules tests.

I think any parent that has the time should head on over to McDonalds and buy a Sundae and bring it to their child at lunch today.

Try frozen yogurt

This really does put a damper on what the PTA's will be able to do for the kids at the elementary level. If you went to Back-to-School night, many of you were asked to vote on your PTA's budget. Ice cream sales can bring in two to three thousand dollars per school year, which in turn helps pay for cultural arts programs and field trips that parents pay little or nothing for.

American First Lady and anti-obesity advocate Michelle Obama splurged on not only a burger and fries on Monday but washed it all down with a chocolate shake.

While the media is lambasting her fat-laden luncheon, nutritionists beg to differ, noting that an occasional 'pig-out' is part of a healthy lifestyle.

Whether it is Federal, State, or Local Government mandated, another piece of childhood innocence is being taken away. How sad that an elementary school child can't look forward to buying something as simple as an ice cream bar once a week. This was always optional - if you did not want your child to have ice cream, you didn't send them with any money to purchase same....simple...a parent had the right to choose what was best for their child's dietary needs! Instead of obsessing over ice cream and the like, how about the “Government” steps in to remove all the contaminated items being sold to our nation from places like China….these items pose a real health threat to our children and pets not a simple ice cream. As a former PTA President, back when my sons were in school, we were able to raise money for new playground equipment. Children were able to "work off" that once-a-week ice cream bar on updated, beautiful equipment the revenue from PTA supported fundraisers provided. We are being led around like cattle to slaughter!

We should all Start writing the our beloved people that are running our government. That they are not to Go to Berger King (or) McDonald's because if they do it might give them so common sense, there are bigger problem then going after the Lunch & Ice cream in the schools, but I do not thing they would ever get common sense and they are sure not showing that right now .

Thank God for our Governor that he has already had his childhood. The HORROR!!!!
seriously, enough already.

enough is enough the goverment has there nose in everything
now ice cream what next? If the goverment doen't change soon they will be telling everyone what we can and can't do in our home. we need a CHANGE and i mean Big time.soon.

End this kind of federal government intrusion. Vote for the Libertarians: Gary Johnson for Presidnet and Ken Kaplan for Senate (me), and restore decisions like this to local control.

Does anyone know (Natalie?) if this is only true for Parsippany schools? If this is a law that is based on federal or state law I would think there would be a lot more uproar about this issue. Though when I search for other articles all of them reference this one article and one school district.

Is it possible that Dr. Seitz misunderstands the law and a ban of ice cream sales by the PTA is not necessary? Or is Dr. Seitz the only superintendent that does understand the law and EVERYONE else is going to have to change as well?

I graduated from HPHS - '64. In those days, it was a regional high school and Parsippany was one of the towns covered. Most days my lunch consisted of two tuna sandwiches, milk and an ice cream bar. They made the best tuna fish sandwiches around and lunch cost me a great big $0.53!!! And I was skinny as a rail! The reason? Because we were physically active and burned off the calories. Today, kids laze around the house watching TV, surfing the web, and playing video games. Get those kids out on the field playing softball, baseball, football, hockey, soccer, running track - THAT will take care of obesity!

ok so that means that the push of the crap that the schools make our kids sell is no longer allowed too then, if they say you cant sell ice cream durning school hrs then dont ask us to sell the xmas cards and paper that you push on our kids to do after hrs!

I am sorry but they need to stop changing all these rules. soon you won't be able to go out your house without permission. Sorry but this is crazy. I know i am overweight because as a kid i was declined stuff that i enjoyed to eat and now because of that I try to eat it all the time as i missed out of it a kid. but now that I am an adult with a family and don't got time to go for a gym and all to loose the weight instead it just stays their. as a kid I was as skinny as can be as i was not able to enjoy the stuff that you where suppose to enjoy. I was rarely giving junk food and at Halloween i was able to pick out a few pieces of candy and rest was giving away or tossed.

This is SO not along the lines of good governence......THIS thing is without any solution.....low fat splenda sweetened ice cream, would fit the guideline, if the guideline3 was written like an actual guideline....
But besides that.....Obama has inflicted an atriocity on today's youth, AND you and I.....he appointed the attorney for Monsanto to the FDA....and possibly the USDA.....so they can railroad ANYONE in the way of GMO foods.....now that there are conclusive tests that prove GMO products have a list of affects a page long, he basically signed our illness certificate.....even random doctors are starting to spaek out....and they have traditionally pushed medicine with side effects in colusion with drug companies.......this is serious....prop 37 needs to be passed, the h.ll with ice cream

I meant frozen yogourt

The more I hear, and this is off the point of nutrition and school lunch and ice cream, it seems the promotion of exercise is a good thing, and I hope everyone can appreciate the federal Let's Move initiative, which seeks to do just that. But even without that, what's stopping us from starting walking or running groups to give people an opportunity to get a little fitter and socialize at the same time... Would anyone be interested in such a thing?

WHAT ARE SCHOOLS SUPPOSED TO DO???? the government cuts their funding, now they are taking away yet another way schools can help shrink the financial gap... I am at a loss. I can't imagine what schools can do. then parents get upset when schools have to close down due to lack of funding... teacher get laid off... class sized get larger... students get less 1 on 1 attention... that in turn makes their grades go down... which then gives the government a reason to give them less money if they aren't holding up their end of the deal by teaching the kids well... it is a joke.

Why does this surprise anyone? for the past 40 yrs parents have blindly and meekly turned over more and more responsibility for raising their kids to the schools,first it was lunches, then free lunches, then breakfast, now afterschool programs and summer meals, They got what they wanted almost entire control of your kids GAVE IT TO THEM

What is sad is the morons who abide by these stupid regulations. Grow a set and say NO we are serving ice cream on Tuesday. Will the police come and arrest you? I doubt that.

Wow...so much posting about ice cream. Few ever mention other causes for childhood obesity. Children with a lineman sized dad could inherit his physical size. Undiagnosed thyroid disfunction also causes obesity. Having a child leave the lunch table hungry usually leads to overeating after school.

Gee I think it is so funny everyone blames the schools the restaurant for carrying unhealthy foods and so on, when I was a kid I ate all those foods and was still thin
Reason my mom didn't let me sit in the house all day and watch TV she would always say go out and play with your friends. the problem here is the new generation of kids don't go out and play they sit in the house play video games and eat and maybe nobody heard but as healthy as some of those foods maybe if your kids are not active and do nothing but play video games all day they will gain weight no matter what . either way it’s not always the food it the fact they are inactive, send them outside to play get rid of those video games or tell them you have x time period to play and then send them outside to play with friends don’t let them sit in the house all day.

Everyone that is against the gov banning unhealthy foods for our kids I have a question for you. Are you for or against legalization of marijuana? I hope you are for it. I also hope you go down to Washington and complain because guess what more people die from obesity every year than marijuana use. There has NEVER been one recorded death from marijuana use. If you believe this is not true FIND just one article ever proving me wrong. Blame that on Regan and his war on drugs. And if your defense is that marijuana is a gateway drug and leads to harsher drugs than we should ban aspirin since this is a pain killer and we all know opiet (pain killer) drug abuse is really destroying our kids.

My 13 year old had a better take on it all and it's so true....why take away voluntary ice cream once a week when the schools only have gym for 30 minutes twice a week. Why isn't gym every day? He's so right too.

Selling ice cream ince a week is not going to hurt any child....and it is once a week because I work at one of the elementary schools. And like someone said...don't give the dollar to your child. And any older kids who have tbeir own money will buy what they want outside of school anyway

hello?

Blaming certain presidents and governors for a dumb law? Yup, political silly season is in full swing.

As for ice cream, why not fortify it and use other sweeteners instead of sugar? No reason for this law to translate into an ice cream ban.

I recommend reading the latest story on the controversy, which points to state law being the primary culprit here, and it is less about nutrition than about where the money goes: http://parsippany.patch.com/articles/schools-chief-ice-cream-sale-ban-will-continue-for-now

Please show me where in the U.S. Constitution where the federal government has the authority to order local schools to: A) Feed children and B) Dictate what children can eat.

What's next? If a kid brings ice cream to school, will they be punished with suspension?

I would like to see what kind of garbage is in the lunch room for the teachers and staff of the schools. I am sure if the teachers and staff were subjected to this idiotic treatment, they would have the unions call a strike.

The parents need to call their bluff: Every parent should send the children to school with a home made lunch with ice cream. Boycott the cafeteria's so that they are forced to throw out one ton of food -- then you will see the dirt bags in government change because it will cut into their government subsidies!

Socialists are Statist, they are absolutely authoritarian in their philosophy. Their long-term goal has always been a Socialistic Dictatorship with full-imposition of a very legalistic society where the individual is simply a part of the collective.

The State must step in to save the country and protect the people from the dangers associated with the inherent problems of free enterprise. Today, the call is very similar, the State must step in to protect the people.

The State will protect you: NO MORE ICE CREAM

No more free will. George Bernard Shaw speaking of the Socialist Utopia, he said: "Under Socialism, you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly fed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you liked it or not.

I love the way people just bend this story to fit their own reality.

If people do not want the government to tell them how to educate their children, what they can sell in the cafeterias, how many calories should be in the maximum meal there is a very simple answer.... STOP TAKING FEDERAL DOLLARS FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT. The only reason we have to listen to their rules is because we take their money. Just stop taking the money and you can make what ever decisions you want.

None of you want that though. You just want to sit here with your hand out TAKING federal dollars and then bitching that they want you to spend them a particular way. You state they are trying to control you. Well, break free. Say NO MORE. We can do this with out your help, thank you very much.

Keep your kids home and home school them, send them to a private school. Those are both options too. The problems may still exist in the public schools but they won't affect you.

What you don't seem to get g, is this is coming down from the FEDS, because Odummer's ugly half doesn't like fat people and she wants to see all kids on a diet and no more sweets.

Mr. Vet, this is coming down from the state. Ice cream can fit federal nutritional guidelines, as PTAs and Superintendent Seitz and reading the law will tell you. What's stopping the PTA sales is the state law saying PTAs specifically cannot sell food items during school breakfast and lunch hours. You may be right or wrong about the merits of lack thereof of the POTUS and FLOTUS and feds, but this is not about them. It's about state law.