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You can dream up as many problems about youth as you want. We have to get a handle on this fat thing in the USA. The subject is soda not condoms. So you are saying"everyone else is jumping off buildings so why not me too!
You just want to give up.
The "fat thing" is an issue of personal responsibility. The government fining a school district for selling a soda in the cafeteria INSTEAD of the hallway is not going to do jack sheet to fat porkers. It's beyond stupid and anyone who defends it is more lost than Dr. Smith.
I've read about this incident on numerous sites, yet none of them mention the actual law that the school broke. They give the jist of it "turn off soda machines during lunch", but I'd like to read the actual law in place.
Not going to look for the USDA reg but it deals with the FARM program. Schools that have students receiving Free And Reduced Meals are not permitted to have competing vending machines in operation during times when meals are served. It's supported by definitions of competing and vending. That's not the only school that has gotten bitten by the reg. Usually the fine is not direct but a deduction from the school system's lunch subsidy.
Usually the fines are only levied after a series of warnings being issued.
Well, since the parents aren't at school, isn't it a logical progression of thought to have the grown-ups that are there at school deciding whats what?
Otherwise, the lunatics would be running the asylum, so to speak.
I agree. But where do they get off telling us that we can't get fat (which by the way won't happen just by soda, I'd have more respect for these people if they would get rid of the soda and candy and ice cream and all the other crap if they really want to stand by their health food kick), but that we can have as much sex as we want? I just don't think that's right. -shrugs-
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So it's ok to hand out condoms to them but not let them drink soda ????
We are a nation of IDIOTS ! And then we wonder why our kids are screwed up.
I agree. But where do they get off telling us that we can't get fat (which by the way won't happen just by soda, I'd have more respect for these people if they would get rid of the soda and candy and ice cream and all the other crap if they really want to stand by their health food kick), but that we can have as much sex as we want? I just don't think that's right. -shrugs-
Honestly, there were holes so big in that story one could drive a Mack truck through them.
Bad piece of journalism, too much unsubstantiated stuff in it.
I dont think ANY of the stuff you mentioned in your post should be sold at school, to tell you the truth.....but you know my thoughts on that one.
Not going to look for the USDA reg but it deals with the FARM program. Schools that have students receiving Free And Reduced Meals are not permitted to have competing vending machines in operation during times when meals are served. It's supported by definitions of competing and vending. That's not the only school that has gotten bitten by the reg. Usually the fine is not direct but a deduction from the school system's lunch subsidy.
Usually the fines are only levied after a series of warnings being issued.
So $15k for "accidently" selling sodas at lunch probably isn't the whole story. I still can't find anything on this except for the usually blogs and stuff and, of course, Fox news.
FDA runs the school lunch program. Any government program has multiple agencies and layers of bureaucracy to ensure it's a complete and total disaster and insanity rules.
LOL at posters who didn't bother to read the link. Non story, if the school wants to receive money under the federal nutrition funding, they can't sell candy or soda. Seems fair enough
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Vending machines in the hallways at Davis High School normally sell carbonated beverages and candy, but to receive federal nutrition funding, they can't sell it during lunch.
Aren't you homeschooled?
Who is telling you what you can/can't do? Mommy and daddy.
No, you're not dreaming up problems, you let Beck do it for you.
Try thinking on your own; it's what grown-ups do.
I homeschool my daughter. I sure as heck dont subscribe to the democrat or republican mantra. I sure as heck dont follow fed guidelines either.
if public schools actually taught in schools instead of being so politically correct, i might actually send my child back to public school, but I highly doubt it.
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