Bake Sale On Steroids

So much for providing healthier food for schoolchildren:

Blatantly defying nutritional guidelines imposed by the city educrats, a Bronx high school is selling belly bombers and other banned junk food to students, the Daily News has learned.

The “supermarket” in the basement of Walton High School peddles a smorgasbord of fatty alternatives to cafeteria food — including ice cream, beef patties, gyros, frozen White Castle hamburgers and canned ravioli, students and teachers revealed.

The store, which aims to raise money for school clubs and provide job training for special education students, has a microwave to heat up the forbidden food. It also sells banned sodas to wash down the treats.

“It’s street food. The only thing that is healthy is milk,” said Juan Finch, a Walton freshman who has downed his fair share of the market’s White Castle burgers. “Students get angry when the store is closed.”

On most school days, a line of students — as well as security guards and teachers — snakes down the hallway outside the supermarket, according to students who told The News they’d rather starve than eat cafeteria food.

“This is regular food, things we eat at home,” said Jarleen Sambou, a Walton senior who routinely buys instant soup, soda and spaghetti in a can from the supermarket.

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Many large high schools run on-campus stores, selling snacks and notebooks to kids as a way to raise money for school clubs.

But in the last few years, principals have adjusted store menus to comply with a healthful-food-only rule. In many cases, sales plummeted.