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Bittersweet send-off before school baked goods ban
Quick ReadA cupcake brigade of parents showed up Friday at a West Babylon elementary school for a final home-baked hoorah.
Photo credit: Mahala Gaylord | Parents of Tooker Avenue Elementary School students bring cupcakes to school to protest West Babylon school district's ban on homemade baked goods in classrooms. (Oct. 16, 2009)
Cupcake Protest at Tooker Avenue Elementary
Cupcake protest at Tooker Avenue Elementary
So long, sweetie.
Parents and students at Tooker Avenue Elementary School bid a bittersweet adieu to home-baked goods Friday on the final day of class before a West Babylon district policy goes into effect that allows only prepackaged snacks.
"Goodbye Homemade," read the blue icing piped on the vanilla-frosted cake carried in by parent Tracy Friedman, who has a second-grader in the school....
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