Alberta school suspsends student for selling Pepsi out of his locker - Polidicks

[quote]School board administrators in Lethbridge, Alta., are defending their suspension policies after a Grade 12 student refused to stop selling Pepsi out of his locker. Keenan Shaw was suspended for two days by Winston Churchill High School. He was selling the soft drink to students, which violated several school policies. Lethbridge student suspended after dealing Pepsi from locker Cheryl Gilmore, superintendent of the Lethbridge public school board, said Monday that while she can't speak about the student's case, the rules say a principal has to be consulted before an item can be sold in school. Board nutrition policy also prevents the sale of sugary pop at schools. "We can't just have anyone coming into the school selling anything they want in the school. There's a distribution of merchandise policy, but we would never suspend someone. We would talk to them about it, we would talk to them about why it doesn't follow our nutrition policy. So there would be lots of talk and fair warning, and opportunity to work with the school administration, before it would ever get to the point of a suspension," she said. While selling a Pepsi isn't enough for a suspension, "persistent or chronic disobedience or disregard for district or school rules" is enough, she said.[/quote] [url]http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/lethbridge-school-defends-actions-after-suspending-student-selling-pepsi-1.2766756[/url] Looks like America isn't the only one with terrible zero tolerance policies in school. And why are they cracking down on a kid selling Pepsi and not kids selling cigarettes? That happens way more often, when I was in high school it was huge, and it seemed like the teachers were either totally oblivious to it or just didn't care.

maybe dont fill the vending machines in all schools with shitty diet soda and kids wont need to sell [i]good[/i] soda

guy was trying to do some good legal business, and the school freedom surpression force does not like that due to violation of the terrible zero tolerance policy...

Damn, I sold cola while in school, was very appreciated by others :v: It's the perfect business strategy!

[quote]doesn't follow our nutrition policy[/quote] what kind of backwards-ass school has a "nutrition policy" Eat our food or get fucked?

I used to sell cigarettes, so someone getting suspended for a fucking drink is dumb. Infact it should be praised, that kid's got a head for business.

The kid should have been praised not punished.

Reminds me of when our school stopped putting salt into most foods and stopped putting out salt shaker, some of us went around and stole salt packets from fast food places and sold them for 5-10 cents a packet, managed to make a few extra dollars every day during the lunches.

hahaha half my grammar school would do this shit, sold sweets and drinks for like 20% markup from the corner shop down the road for the lower years who weren't allowed out of school in hours, they would always lug it around in massive PE bags while the teachers tried to clamp down on it

My high school would actually suspend students for selling their own candy, while the school itself would have students sell candy for one reason or another.

give him the chair

this is a good idea i would do except for the fact that my school is across from a gas station

[QUOTE=Crash155;45989397]what kind of backwards-ass school has a "nutrition policy" Eat our food or get fucked?[/QUOTE] All schools in Alberta have a nutrition policy. It's basically that unhealthy food can't by sold by the school. I remember when I started high school you could go to the cafeteria at lunch and buy poutine and all kinds of greasy food, but then this came into effect and that stopped. It doesn't effect what you can bring from home though.

Great, now instead of getting their soda from a safe source they could have watched over, the kids are going to go to shady dealers in isolated areas and risk their lives for it.

In my school days we would got to, you know, markets nearby to buy stuff. What is with all this Pepsi, candy, salt, cigarette reselling ? Sounds like prisons.

Selling drinks and candy out of your locker is a gateway to criminal drug dealing

[QUOTE=Crash155;45989397]what kind of backwards-ass school has a "nutrition policy" Eat our food or get fucked?[/QUOTE] When I was in high school, they had the worst fucking policies. All the drink options were either watered down vitamin water (I don't even comprehend it, it was literally watered down to no flavor. I don't know how) and all the food tasted like cardboard. They actually had me arrested for leaving school to get lunch.

[QUOTE=DeVotchKa;45989409]Reminds me of when our school stopped putting salt into most foods and stopped putting out salt shaker, some of us went around and stole salt packets from fast food places and sold them for 5-10 cents a packet, managed to make a few extra dollars every day during the lunches.[/QUOTE] "Hey uhh… could you hook me up with some salt, just a little salt man come on it's just a little salt." First thing that come to mind is people walking up to you saying this.

"First they get you on the Pepsi, then they move you up to harder stuff like Mountain Dew!"

In the future, he'll switch soda brands and start selling Coke.

[QUOTE=The Duke;45989941]In the future, he'll switch soda brands and start selling Coke.[/QUOTE] It's better than [sp]Shasta[/sp]

[QUOTE=Crash155;45989397]what kind of backwards-ass school has a "nutrition policy" Eat our food or get fucked?[/QUOTE] Alberta is a conservative province. Almost all their ideas an beliefs are polar opposite to everyone else. The rest of Canada also hates Alberta, for reasons.

[QUOTE=n0cturni;45989463]My high school would actually suspend students for selling their own candy, while the school itself would have students sell candy for one reason or another.[/QUOTE] Mine actually did. Once my school cafeteria stopped selling sweets, this one guy started buying boxes of them and making a small business out of it. He ended up getting suspended for a week. That didn't stop him though.

Was it just in my school that nobody ever used lockers? I can't imagine going from one part of the school to a locker for a book and then over to another part in the six minutes you had between classes.

Word got around that he was selling coke.

I remember when Shoppers Drug Mart carried 12 packs of canned Life Brand soft drinks. When that shit went on sale for like ~$1 a case (maybe even less I don't remember). Friends and I would buy so much of it and sell it out of our lockers loonie for a can.. I guess at the time there were no nutrition policies.

Im so glad im out of high school. No soda until after school hours. But that didnt stop me from sneaking into the teacher lounge area for a soda during lunch like once a week :V

At least he wasn't dealing coke.

99 percent of soda is revolting, but this policy is just stupidly excessive and needs to be put under review.

[QUOTE=pentium;45990204]Alberta is a conservative province. Almost all their ideas an beliefs are polar opposite to everyone else. The rest of Canada also hates Alberta, for reasons.[/QUOTE] Stop stereotyping everyone who lives here dammit. I know plenty of people who live in Alberta and aren't conservative, myself included. Of course we're in the minority and most Albertans are conservative. There's also a lot of Mormons south of Calgary, probably the highest concentration of Mormons outside of Utah. Yes, Alberta sucks, take it from me I've lived here my whole life. I'm probably not going to live here when I finish university. But just keep in mind there's more Albertans who aren't conservative then you think, we just get overpowered by the large, vocal majority.