Cake ban makes District 25 a joke

Parents of Arlington Heights Elementary District 25: Please join me in a slow clap for Sarah Jerome, superintendent and crusader against cupcakes, for elevating District 25 to national laughingstock status.

Her zero tolerance policy against frosted baked goods was justly ridiculed on MSNBC's Monday "Zeitgeist," making her and our district the poster child for a nanny state gone awry, where clueless administrators suck every last ounce of fun out of childhood.

Yes, childhood obesity is a problem, and I'm sure her heart was in the right place. But I have to wonder where her head was in the crafting of this overreaching and soulless policy.

So please join me, other District parents, and (thanks to MSNBC) thousands of other red-blooded Americans in saying: "Let Them Eat Cake!"

Ed Macke

Arlington Heights