Child Suspended for Crisp Dealing

[Ninjamedic]

It's no joke, I myself was addicted to crisps. I was robbing houses just to pay for my next hit of Walkers.

You allways striked me as a tayto sort of man.

Perri's Lights were my vice, I can spot those bags from 10 miles

 

[NoNameMcgee]

This thread makes me smile just seeing people calling crisps, crisps. Since I moved to Australia I've had several arguments with people who insist on calling them chips. I'm petty, I know.

 

[Meberem]

We did this a few years back, easily selling stuff for 2x its RRP and people bought it, didn't get suspended though just a rap on the knuckles and not to do it again. If we continued it I bet we would have gotten a similar punishment. I think it is a silly reason for getting excluded really though questionable on the legality ?!?

People will always want what's bad for them, just have it in moderation, I don't believe it's a schools place to dictate what a person may eat. They are a facility to accommodate learning, if they don't want to learn let them regret it later and hopefully be a better person and parent because of it.

 

[AWC Viper]

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

OP: it's called being an entrepreneur, he's setting up his future now.

This thread makes me smile just seeing people calling crisps, crisps. Since I moved to Australia I've had several arguments with people who insist on calling them chips. I'm petty, I know.

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

 

[FranzTyphid]

Hey, I heard your the guy that sells the goods

Yeah, thats me, what'd you want

...Cheese and Onion...Walkers.

(hugs you) thank yiou my friend at least im not alone

 

[Elurindel]

My uncle used to sell toast he brought in his pockets to his schoolmates, and nobody so much as batted an eyelid.

 

[Knight of Cydonia]

lol... I sold some chocolate bars to my school for a while for double the price their worth but the "popular" kids couldnt let me have ONE DAY of happiness so they told a teacher.....NO ONE TOLD ME I COULDN'T BLOODY DO IT.

 

[RnAoDm]

My brothers used to do stuff like this when we were at school they ended up with a tidy profit at the end of the day. Even going so far as buying a pack of sweets and selling them individually and making 3-5 times the original cost if not more. This was before the junkfood bans and such though when life was (just a little more) easy going. If this was done when i was at school i think it would have been unfair in many ways to suspend, however if it was in the school's rules and known to the students a rule is still a rule whatever it may be though suspension seems harsh if it was after multiple warnings its something to try

 

[Cmwissy]

Schools are supposed to be places of teaching.

Including healthy dietary habits. Suspension was perhaps a tad harsh (unless this wasn't the first or even second offense), but otherwise I see no problems with this.

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

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

Plus the fat kids are always the nicest.


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


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.

EDIT EDIT: I need some cheese and onion crisps.

 

[Knight of Cydonia]

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

We call your "french fries" chips, can't have both using the same word!

 

[karloss01]

reminds me of the time i was to stand in a corner for a lunch break back in primary school when i was 10 for saying "its a free country" to a friend as i passed by a teacher. still don't understand why i was punished.

 

[Amnestic]

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:

Spoiler

 

[Cmwissy]

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.

 

[RnAoDm]

reminds me of the time i was to stand in a corner for a lunch break back in primary school when i was 10 for saying "its a free country" to a friend as i passed by a teacher. still don't understand why i was punished.

Perhaps someone had just tricked the teacher into giving up all their savings offering to sell them the country...

 

[MR T3D]

Schools are supposed to be places of teaching.

Including healthy dietary habits. Suspension was perhaps a tad harsh (unless this wasn't the first or even second offense), but otherwise I see no problems with this.

sir, i disagree. A child should learn about healthy eating, but the choice to have less-healthy foods should not be removed.
and i must say props to the child for being a capitalist!

And I disagree with you.

Schools, private or public, are under no obligation to cater to the unhealthy whims of kids and teenagers. The schools did not entirely remove the option of crisps, fast food and such from the children, instead they simply make sure that if the child wants them it will be outside of school time. Nothing is stopping those kids from walking to a store right after school has ended to buy a chololate bar or a bag of chips.

The school simply decided that allowing such serves no goal and is in fact counter-productive to their purpose: kids on a sugar rush are hyperactive and harder to deal with, and once that sugar rush goes away they are tired and lethragic. Both hamper educating those children.

We do not hold children of the age twelve to be legally responsible for their actions, they are not mature and wise enough. The responsibility belongs to others. Why should we expect the children then eat normal, healthy foods if the option for eating something 'tastier' instead (but which we adults know are bad for them) remains? We shouldn't. And therefore, for the school hours, the choice is removed from them.

Yes, the kids has some entreprenurial spirit. But he blatantly broke the rules. And so was punished.

dammit, too...well-reasoned...arguments....can't...find...faults....ARRRGHHH!

 

[AWC Viper]

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

These are Crisps:

Spoiler

These are Chips:

Spoiler

These are Fries:

Spoiler

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.

 

[Cmwissy]

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

These are Crisps:

Spoiler

These are Chips:

Spoiler

These are Fries:

Spoiler

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.

 

[Amnestic]

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

These are Crisps:

Spoiler

These are Chips:

Spoiler

These are Fries:

Spoiler

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

I think you'll find that's the British way of doing things as well. In fact, I would postulate that it's the way everyone except the U.S. (and perhaps Canadians?) do it.