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Filed under: Health & Safety: Babies, Day Care & Education
Like the high school version of prohibition, students are reacting to junk food bans at their schools by establishing black market operations for trafficking the goods under the administration's radar. Soda? Chips? Chocolate bars? Just when you thought they were gone for good, it turns out kids will go to great lengths to avoid eating healthy in the classroom.
But instead of relying on dark, forgotten corners on campus, guarded by thugs and accessible only by reciting the appropriate password, these students are using the social networking power of Facebook to openly advertise their dubious business endeavors.
I fear the day when school officials will have to start cracking down with Snickers-sniffing dogs.
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ReaderComments (Page 1 of 1)
9-22-2007 @ 1:02AM
DaMoKi Bob said...Just goes to show you cannot ledgislate good sense or nutrition. But seriously, I will be waiting for the campus cops to mount a sting operation, code word "hard candy", to take down these Little Debbie dealers, these moonpie miscreants, these bag-o-chips bagmen, and thereby eliminate the carbohydrate connection once and for all.
Whew! That was close... Now, what to do when the young and impressionable arrive at home where mom and dad have stashed everything from Fritos to Hot Pockets? Yummmm!
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9-22-2007 @ 12:09PM
Joy said...This is really nothing new. We had "those kids" who sold nibs, sweetarts, peanuts and so forth out of their lockers and this was *sh* don't tell anyone....30 years ago. I remember buying a "math-mates" dill pickles from his lunch. What I wouldn't give for one his mom's homemade dill pickles now. Mmm. Kids do stuff like this and I don't think it matters if they can get it in the cafeteria or not. You want a nibble when you want one. Those kids that did that are probably sitting pretty now. I also know it went on with my kids and my oldest wanted to get in on the whole "locker store" but me in my "what ifs", didn't let him. Maybe I should have. All I'm saying is this does go on and is nothing new.
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9-23-2007 @ 12:03AM
SKL said...My brother was disciplined for selling donuts at school about 30 years ago. His argument was they should encourage his entrepreneurship (buying at the baker's dozen rate, selling at the single donut rate). Their argument was that parents didn't intend for their kids' pocket money to be spent on donuts every morning. Whatever.
I didn't think this was a police state. It's one thing for the school to sell that stuff and call it lunch. It's another thing for young people to have private transactions with their own money.
When I was a teen, I didn't have a "source" at school, but I bought and ate plenty of junk food before and after school. It's going to happen one way or the other. Luckily, as long as kids are active too, and they have to go to some effort and expense to get access to the goods, it's not usually a big problem as the calories are used up by their growth and activity and high metabolism.
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