Child Suspended for Crisp Dealing

[The Heik]

Me thinks I want some Crisps.

I second that

But to stay on topic, while I don't like that they banned it, I can understand why. It's to promote healthy eating within the school, and that age is where a person's primary habits are formed. It's a good move for getting kids ot eat healthy, but I believe that every good kid deserves fudge! At least during recess.

 

[hippykiller]

sweet Jesus what is this world coming to? its not like he was selling meth!

 

[Trivun]

They shouldn't have the right to ban them, but they do need to teach healthy eating habits. I say ban lunches that the parents make, then subsidise for poorer parents and sell proper school dinners at the school. Then they can sell crisps and chocolate themselves at breaktimes, alongside healthier things like cereal bars and fruit, and that way the school makes money (which they could put into perhaps a Healthy Eating campaign), the kids still get to eat junk food, and they still get to learn about and have exposure to healthier foods. Then everybody wins! It worked at my old school, after all, I'm sure it an work with others too...

 

[quiet_samurai]

LOL.

That kind of sucks. I think it was the sheer fact he was selling a banned product to students is what got him suspended, not because he was making a profit by marking up his snack goods. In my school it was against the rules to wear a hat in class, and if you did so you were asked to take it off. If you continued to do so over and over again you would get into trouble. It's the fact that he was breaking the rules...not because crisps are a threatening snack.

 

[AWC Viper]

ummm why do you call them 'crisps' instead of chips?

These are Crisps:

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These are Chips:

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These are Fries:

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we call all them chips. maybe it's just Australian laziness.

ummm why do you call them 'crisps' instead of chips?

why do you call them 'crisps'?, seriously?

Why don't you pronounce the h in herbs?

Stay on topic.

i do pronounce the h in herbs. when i say 'erbs' it makes me sound like im buying weed.

You missed the point - there is no point of arguing semantics; you know what we mean.

yeah, right okay back on topic.

it's wrong that he was suspended for selling crisps and now i feel like some. to the pantry!

 

[geldonyetich]

That's capitalism, baby. The sellers of products fight tooth and nail for their exclusive rights to do so, even if it means shutting down some kid trying to follow in his father's footsteps. Sounds to me like this kid got an early lesson about how this crappy world economy works.

 

[Velocirapture07]

http://news.uk.msn.com/uk/articles.aspx?cp-documentid=151341050

The basic jist is that a child (aged 12) has been suspended from school for selling crisps to other pupils at a marked up rate (example stated 50p per bag). He was suspended after being caught several times selling crisps over a period of time. The pupil's father was known to sell crisps & other snack foods to pupils outside of the school, which had banned junk foods.

The father says that his son has been picked out & victimised, And the school itself have almost admitted this by saying "We have six to seven regular sellers we pinpoint".

Personally i think this is stupid. Not the fact that child had been suspended, but the fact that the school has banned those foods. At the end of the day if a parent decides their little timmy is to only eat a bag of cheese and onion, two chocolate bars & sausage roll for lunch, Then that is their decision. What right does the school have?

So, People of the escapist - What is your opinion?

(Note: Slight edit on the wording)

What the hell is a "crisp"?

Edit: Oh....it's chips or something.

 

[geldonyetich]

That the hell is a "crisp"?

It's British for potato chip. After all, if fries are chips, what are you going to call the chips if not crisps?

 

[Zacharine]

Yes - let's also make them look the same; maybe think the same way, worship the same god, have the same haircut.

I have no idea where you came up with this non sequitur.

Schools should be a place for a child to open their mind

Yes. And be shown that adults practice what they preach - health ed kind of loses the edge if a school is filled with vending machines and meal options include french fries and pizza.

Limiting dietary options within school grounds during school hours is not limiting their education, the knowledge they receive or the openess of their minds.

It is simply showing them that society has rules, the rules are enforced and that there are reasons for those rules.

Plus the fat kids are always the nicest.

What does this have to do with anything? We should make children happy and nice by making them fat? That fatness leads to happiness and being nice? That non-fat kids cannot be nice to others?

Correlation is not causation, even if your claim were to be factual.

All I eat is honestly eat is Carbs (cheese, crisps, etc) and I weigh 8 stone.

Good for you. Now can you guarantee that works for everyone? Of course not.

EDIT: the jist of what I'm saying - schools should give the children knowledge and let them do what they will with it - not enforce them.

Yes, given them the knowledge and allow them to decide. Once they are of age. Once they are not within government-enforced law-degreed institution.

And just because schools should give knowledge, does not mean they should allow any and all practice of that knowledge within it: One can build bombs with high-school level chemistry, this does not meant students should be allowed to build them. Basic woodwork and trigonometry allows one to build a fully functional medieval catapult (albeit if it will be good for more than one shot is questionable), does this mean they should be allowed to practice that knowledge within school? Should school provide opportunity and materials for these practices?

Of course not. That is just insane. Just as society has rules, schools have as well. Both carry an element punishment for breaking them. Learning how to live your life within those rules is a valuable lesson for any child.

 

[Velocirapture07]

That the hell is a "crisp"?

It's British for potato chip. After all, if fries are chips, what are you going to call the chips if not crisps?

Good point. They wouldn't be in that pickle if they just called them by the appropriate names though

 

[Dyp100]

The local shop next to school sells crisps at 55p...

Am I missing something here? 50 is marked up?

 

[camokkid]

Me thinks I want some Crisps.

I would rather have some potato chips

 

[Lord George]

Wow thats pretty harsh, we deal fags and food to the kids and are school mainly due to the canteen being overpriced and haven't got so much as a warning from anyone. They should reward the kid for having an enterprising spirit.

 

[AdambotLive]

A school? Acting like an authoritarian government? Unjustifiably banning things? Getting children in trouble for astonishingly stupid reasons?

I've never heard of such a thing!

 

[Vimbert]

I was once hit for a similar racket involving peddling Skittles to my oppressed middle school brethren, way back in the day...

 

[Azure-Supernova]

Meh, we had one of these in high school too. Sold cans of pop and bags of sweets, it was awesome. Until we found out he was buying the stuff for like, half the price in bulk!

 

[nolongerhere]

Something similar happened in my school. Replace "crisps" with "cigarettes", and don't have anyone getting caught, and that is essentially the same thing.

 

[jj90]

i fucking love the UK *HUGE SARCASM*

but seriously, with the state of this country, why does EVERYONE think this country is the dogs bollocks?

 

[The Heik]

Me thinks I want some Crisps.

I second that

But to stay on topic, while I don't like that they banned it, I can understand why. It's to promote healthy eating within the school, and that age is where a person's primary habits are formed. It's a good move for getting kids ot eat healthy, but I believe that every good kid deserves fudge! At least during recess.

I think we have better things to worry about, and I dont think banning the selling of crisps will stop people from having a bad diet. America at least should worry about its education in general especially in regards to sex, because its really lacking.

While the ban won't prevent a bad diet, it will point kids in the right direction. Anyways the ban make kids eat healthy at school, so that their minds and bodies are better prepared for education, so the school system is actually promoting education as well. As in regards to sex, that is more the fault of society in general, which puts both men and women into stereotypical roles.