Poll: Soda in school

[Baconator96]

its an idiotic rule. when they switched all the good sodas out at my school, they also thought it would be a lovely idea to raise prices. it costs 3 damn dollars for a can of diet soda. Fortunately, theres a corner store about 2 blocks down the road, so everyone goes there instead.

 

[hxcfreak]

I live in Georiga, and yes, it is because of the healthy lifestyle nonsense. Schools are literally not allowed to sell certain items, not just Cokes, but types of chips and candy as well.

It's dumb. Dumb, dumb, dumb. I'm an American. Let me buy whatever the hell I want to.

You can't have them at all is the law

 

[Sightless Wisdom]

Hurrah for the freedom of Canada...I think. We don't have any food-related regulations really. Infact last semester, my art class was in one minute maximum walking distance of about 4 vending machines that sell soda(overpriced soda at that).

 

[SultanP]

I'm fairly sure that diet sodas are fattening too, but from other stuff, which makes the guys making the laws dolts who don't properly know what they are doing.

 

[jimduckie]

the rich kids will do it anyway but yeah it's not only the food and drink thats bad ,but alot of kids are getting lazy and thats bad , but the schools and parents are to blame for that , BUT WAIT A SEC the fucking teachers are hypocrites , they tell you no but then they shovel the bad food down themselves , i had a teacher when i was in high school and he was fat , he taught physical ed ,

 

[Cowabungaa]

*shrugs* I don't care, I usually prefer fruit juices to soda's anyway, although I like a can of ice cold Lipton Ice every now and then. But I don't like banning stuff, this is one of those things, it's not tackling the source of the problem anyway.

The source is the way kids are raised, not the fact that you can buy soda at school. The goods people (like me, I barely drink it, but like it every now and then) suffer under rules like this, and the bad people will circumvent it anyway.

 

[Shoto Koto]

Hey if kids in the US can't go for a few hours without a fizzy drink, then there really is something seriously wrong. You all make it seem like it's a god-given right to drink fizzy drinks when and where you want. I think that this is a good way to combat obesity in children, and why not? My only criticism is that it seems a bit half-hearted; if they wanted to stop children taking in so much sugar they should just ban carbonated drinks altogether in school or rather, just not sell them, the kids that are old enough to leave during breaktimes are old enough to make their own decisions too.

 

[Kpt._Rob]

It's a small step in the right direction in the same way that taking one step out the door of your house in Los Angeles is a small step in the right direction if you're headed to New York City. And you're walking the whole way.

Really, you should be taking an airplane.

Apart from the fact that these machines get put into schools in the first place because lobies with a lot of money paid to get them there, they really aren't healthy for schools. But if a kid's going to get fat anyways, just taking away the machine with the Twinkies isn't going to help, he'll just go to Walmart and buy a whole fucking box of the things.

And for those who say "if someone wants to get fat, it's a victimless crime," you need to wake the hell up and realize that it's not. Do you have any idea how much money could be saved in this country every year if we could get rid of all the health problems caused by obesity? Our obesity is one of the leading causes of health problems here in the U.S., and if you don't think your tax dollars are paying for every twinkie that got shoved down the throat of a kid who already had too many, then think again. And when it comes to fattening food, soda is some of the worst. Although frankly Gatorade and the other "sports drinks" aren't all that much better. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised to learn that they were worse.

 

[matsugawa]

If students don't get to drink sodas in school, then teachers don't get to drink coffee.

For pity's sake, it's soda. When I'd look around me in my Spanish class and spot at least two kids sleeping, the thought would occur, "I bet he'd be all right if he had a soda or something." Then I'd see our teacher wag his finger at the sleepers with one hand, holding his cup of joe in the other.

Soda isn't what makes people fat. People make themselves fat; bigger portions and less activity in daily lives. It's as simple as that. Having alternatives available like water, Gatorade, or fruit juices would be a more positive step, that way it's a choice, not some draconian dictum spurred by lazy parents who can't be bothered to raise their own kids yet get upset when little Jack or Jane gets a bit of a spare tire.

 

[Pandalisk]

Land of the free indeed.

Hmm not that Irelands any better, you get guns we get soda pop, thats a bad or good trade depending on your Point of view.

Heheh soda, i find that word so odd, we just call it fizzy drink round here.

so have they bothered to ban High colorie foods as well? it seems kinda pointless if your gonna ban 1/10 of what is apparently the problem

 

[Aur0ra145]

I was informed today its against the law to have regular sodas at school for students in the state of Georgia. Diet sodas are fine so is water and powerade. Because law makers feel that regulars sodas at school are whats making us fat. Not the millions other personal health choices we make in the day. Do you feel its a positive step to healthier America or stupid?

I need to make this clearer It is illegal to have in your possession regular sodas at my school

So you can still have this?

 

[Fraught]

Isn't aspartame much worse than sugar?

I have drunk them pretty often, and many of my friends have, and we're not fat. Fat has twice as much calories in it as sugar, so that should be eaten less, not sugar.

Also, it's absurd that they're restricting it in school. A people can drink what they want, it's a free country, damnit!

Anyway, here where I live, such a ridiculous law hasn't been enforced. Ever.

EDIT: Yeah, maybe in America they should enforce that law. Tee hee!

So you can still have this?

Does he have to list all the rules and things that aren't allowed in school for not these kind of questions asked?

That's whiskey, and I'm pretty sure that if you're in school, you shouldn't be drinking whiskey.

 

[bigorexia]

Nanny state? Seriously what happened to parental and personal responsibilty. Did it ever exist might be a better question since this is where governments always seem to go.

 

[sky14kemea]

hmm, i think they enforced it cause kids were getting hyper and stuff, not because they were getting fat XD

unless im wrong, that my bad?

yeah they banned it at our school, but we still drank it anyway just hid it from the teachers

 

[Akai Shizuku]

It's not the government's place to decide what sodas people do and do not drink. That's a step towards fascism, as if we needed any freaking reminders of that handlebar mustache that looked like a turd.

What would be a much better move would be to hold assemblies and announcements about the health effects of the over-consumption of sugary sodas and the benefits of choosing the alternatives. Also, the school could have vending machines and cafeterias which only healthier products such as water, juice, and diet sodas. This way nobody's freedom is infringed upon and everybody is a little bit healthier and quite a bit happier.

 

[El Poncho]

The regular diet soda's at school is making our reactions the same as a rocks.

 

[Rascarin]

Of course its the fizzy drinks the kids are drinking thats making them fat, not the appallingly bad diets and lack of exercise they receive.

Surely it would be a lot easier to just get the fat little snots running around in a field, like we did when I was at school. We ate and drank whatever the hell we wanted, but we still had to do our cross-country and play netball in arctic conditions. And hardly anyone was fat.

 

[Bulletinmybrain]

Lol, I'm guessing the guys who thought of this were pencil pushers and not health experts. There's no fat in a drink, so you physically can't get fat from drinks. They're attacking the wrong state of forking matter here!

You don't understand biology, the simple carbohydrates are adsorbed into your system and moved to the liver for use, raised blood sugar level blah blah blah. But, if it isn't used then your body converts it into fat and moves it to the fatty tissue.

I'm fairly sure that diet sodas are fattening too, but from other stuff, which makes the guys making the laws dolts who don't properly know what they are doing.

The only thing unhealthy about them is all the stuff the body must convert into urea and excrete. Other then that, they have no real benefit nor do they hurt your body. They don't contain any carbohydrates.

It's not the government's place to decide what sodas people do and do not drink. That's a step towards fascism, as if we needed any freaking reminders of that handlebar mustache that looked like a turd.

What would be a much better move would be to hold assemblies and announcements about the health effects of the over-consumption of sugary sodas and the benefits of choosing the alternatives. Also, the school could have vending machines and cafeterias which only healthier products such as water, juice, and diet sodas. This way nobody's freedom is infringed upon and everybody is a little bit healthier and quite a bit happier.

To bad the government are allowed to do this. They are not FORCING you to drink anything, and the property is their's which means they can choose the rules. Most times by violating rights such as consenting to a search, at my school if you don't consent to a search you will be suspended, just the same way they can search the locker that you pretty much must use because they don't allow book-bags in class. (The last school I went to)

Another freaky rule: Public schools in my area claim that the bus-stop is theirs, and if you fight there they can suspend you. Just the same way they claim that until you go into your house and come back out after school if you fight with someone you will be suspended if they find out.

In summary: When you go to school, most of your rights are absolved.