Child Suspended for Crisp Dealing

[GamingAwesome1]

Trying to teach about healthy diets is fine in schools, but don't force it on them!

I remember when my primary school headteacher tried to take my bag of crisps that my mum had put in my lunch, I stole it right back from the ***** and said "No". She never tried it again.

 

[Superbeast]

I only read the first page, so this may have come up, but the school was totally correct to suspend the child.

When I was in my GCSE years (so 14-16 ish) a friend of mine was buying chocolate, crisps and sweets from a large supply store (Macro) for very cheap prices and selling them on at a higher rate.

You may think "Props for making a bit of money there mate!", but it turns out that in order to sell these foods to other people on public property he needed to have a license (I think it's under Health&Safety law) - and since he didn't have one what he was doing was actually not against school rules as such, but illegal (and thus the school had to take action against it).

 

[-Orgasmatron-]

There was a whole bunch of sellers in my secondary school after they stopped selling sweets and crisps and stuff at the snack bar. There was some proper good money in it, people were making upwards of like £100 selling chocolate, Coke and sweets. It is actually illegal in the UK though. Plus, they charged extortionate prices, but sometimes I just couldn't resist those Haribos.

 

[Low Key]

Kids these days are way too spoiled. When I was 12, there was no food in class, there were no vending machines, and what the school gave us is what we got. And that was from one of the top 100 school districts in America with some of the best funding.

People just need to accept selling food in school is not allowed, and deal with the consequences if they do.

 

[Scrat01]

Does it seem like only Brittian keeps comeing up with stupid rules and laws. IE: Blasphemy laws.

 

[ottenni]

I think the kid deserves a medal for showing some initiative and business sense.

 

[Cyberjester]

At the school I went to, the canteen was run separately from the school, a business itself. The person who owned it also happened to be the OH&S person for the school. They managed to ban parents dropping off food to the school, and severely limited my Business class because it would "take too much $ away from the canteen".

What's the bet this school is doing the same thing?

Edit: And yes I'm a cynic. =P

 

[GBlair88]

So schools can't get rid of bullies but they can suspend kids for selling crips. Sounds like typical Labour policy to me.

 

[Monocle Man]

I fail to see the problem here.
Assuming junk food is against the school rules, he deserved it. Even if it wasn't, it's still against the law like many people have said before me.

To those with the "Schools are supposed to teach students about having your own opinion" point of view, a more important thing they're supposed to teach is discipline. It's against the rules so don't do it. Having an opinion doesn't necessarily mean you may follow it.

"I'm of the opinion I should be allowed to post uncensored tits here"
"I should have the right to kill anyone who looks at me funny"
Good initiative! Go ahead!

It's not impossible to live 8 hours without junk food.

 

[Elburzito]

Me thinks I want some Crisps.

Me too.
But seriously though, my school did the exact same thing(banning junk foods) just because it's "healthier". I mean for Christs sake we already have to wear uniforms and can only have short, neat hair. Slowly the school has been turning more and more into something George Orwell has been warning us about.Their even planning to put CAMERA's in classrooms!!!

The Child did good to sell the crisps. Maybe it would be a slap in the balls for the bastards who run that school.

 

[Scrythe]

My old middle school did something like this once. Removed all of the soda machines and banned outside foods. All of the machines were replaced with Sobe, Snapple and always-expired Nestle chocolate milk.

Then they turned around and got rid of everything on the menu, except for pizza, donuts, oversalted pretzels and sugar-laden "fruit" slushies (inappropriately called "smoothies").

This was all done in the name of "combating child obesity". Looking back on it, I think this was the main reason why I only eat one meal now (I haven't eaten breakfast since I was six).

 

[Raven's Nest]

He should be arrested for tax evasion too!

You know he isn't sending his tax returns every April!

 

[ethaninja]

Agreed. I live in Australia so Its not the same where I'm from.

 

[ACM_Shadow]

Well my previous school banned sweets, but everyone just went to the shop over the street and bought some anyways. And this made me laugh. Maybe a bit to hard with suspension? I mean come on, it's just crisps!!

My school got rid of chips & soft drinks from the canteen, so we sneaked over the street to the stores, a teacher started patrolling the store, we went round the back and "secured" our wants from the shop assistant out the back.
Then the school gave up, restocked the "junk food" but overpriced it, so at least they got money to spend on other educational facilities.

The thing is people want to blame someone for the obesity problem, so they blame schools. When if people actually wanted to get rid of this so called obesity crisis they would educate the parents, and keep the schools to a more classical education regime.
PS: 99% of people get their eating habits from their parents/rolemodels.

 

[Reep]

Thats what i had at my school, we called it the Black Market where a guy bought heaps of cans to school and sold them for a lot cheaper than the canteen.

 

[Zacharine]

Schools, private or public, are under no obligation to cater to the unhealthy whims of kids and teenagers.

Refraining from banning things or punishing people is not "catering."

Schools are places to learn, not to be treated like a prisoner.

My point was they are under no obligation to provide such foods, they are under no obligation to allow such foods and such foods make the schools primary purpose harder to achieve: that of educating youngsters.

And how is having rules equal to a school being a prison? The society is not a prison. When you are at work, you are not in a prison. When you visit the library you are not visiting a prison. Get over yourself and your anarchistic mindset; rules are everywhere, they are the backbone of any civilization or group of humans living together. And there are a lot worse rules than 'Eating and selling of soft drinks, candy, crisps and similiar foodstuffs is prohibited during school hours'

 

[spartan773]

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

XD

 

[spartan773]

2 things.
1. this story proves most teachers up to high school and above are morons.
2. this story gave me a craving for chips.