The Baking Club is out of control
By NJ Chicaa
@NJChicaa (124994)
United States
October 10, 2025 4:13pm CST
Yikes. I never sought to be the advisor but an assistant principal who knows I'm always cooking and baking asked me to take it over. Fine. I'm getting paid but my guess is that it is probably like $500 for the year. Whatever. I'm happy to do it.
But holy hell the number of students who want to be involved is nuts. We had like 27 students for the caramel apples. It was standing room only in the classroom that I was using. This coming week's meeting is just going to be planning for Friday's bake sale. I expect lower attendance for that. haha
The assistant principal who asked me to do it walked by me today when I was on hall duty. She said "Not that you are looking for more members but 3 kids came to my office to find out how to join the baking club". Yikes.
We are going to have to go to just decorating competitions because there is only one stove/oven in the life skills room. That isn't going to work for 30+ students. If some drop off then I'll go back to the idea of actually baking but we can't do projects with all of those students with just one range/oven.
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@AmbiePam (104126)
• United States
10 Oct
Aw, bummer. You sounded eager to help them really dig into baking. I’m sure they’ll still have fun though. Any chance you can get a second stove installed for next year or did I just hear you laughing at that question.
It’s too bad you can’t cut it the club into halves, with some meeting one day a week, and the rest meeting another day. But they’re already not paying you a lot anyway, let alone for two days club days a week. No matter what, I know you’ll make it enjoyable.
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@NJChicaa (124994)
• United States
10 Oct
That's the thing. I could split it into 2 meetings but that's more time for me and as the year goes on I will have a stupid amount of homebound tutoring hours.
We have a construction course which is great since wood/metal/auto shop courses were cancelled 20 years ago. A history teacher does it. I'm like well if a history teacher can do construction then a science teacher should be able to do cooking/baking!
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@BarBaraPrz (50436)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
11 Oct
And I guess a camp stove wouldn't be any use, even if it was allowed? Hot plate? Electric frying pans? I know! Easy Bake ovens. 
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@FourWalls (79355)
• United States
11 Oct
That’s a shame…not that it’s popular, but that it’s probably popular because those kids haven’t heard of “home economics” class…and probably neither have their parents. That is probably what makes it popular.
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@FourWalls (79355)
• United States
11 Oct
@NJChicaa — I agree. It’s obvious that kids who can’t add and subtract at a third-grade level won’t be college-bound. I think one of the worst things of the last generation or two is preaching the “gospel” of “you have to go to college.” It’s slapped a lot of people with debts they can’t pay and degrees that aren’t worth the paper they’re written on. Mechanics, meanwhile, make more than you or I do/did, without the degree.
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@NJChicaa (124994)
• United States
11 Oct
@FourWalls My ex makes more than me and never graduated from college.
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@RasmaSandra (89701)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
10 Oct
Best of luck figuring it all out, I had a though how about dividing all baking students in groups of how many would be good at one time and have the groups rotate. Say you have the Baking Club each time with a different group and then it rotates around so each group gets a chance at it all through the year,
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@LindaOHio (203076)
• United States
11 Oct
That's too bad about the baking restrictions. It's nice to see kids interested in something though. Good luck sorting it out.
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