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

Back in high school there was this kid who bought candy in bulk and sold it out of his backpack. I don't know how much he sold it for or if he was worth buying candy in bulk, but if you ever wanted candy mid-class you knew who to talk to.

[QUOTE=Ownederd;45990829]99 percent of soda is revolting, but this policy is just stupidly excessive and needs to be put under review.[/QUOTE] Those damn heinous sodas be making me fat on purpose!

[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] Wow MIPS i think Alberta is okay. Everyone hates the Quebec-ers not Albertans.

On the scale of "zero tolerance bullshit news stories", this one is weaksauce. It's clearly in the rules that you can't sell shit at school without approval, AND it's against the school board's school nutrition policy. They even gave him opportunities to stop without punishment. This isn't "zero tolerance school nazis", it's "kid repeatedly refuses to follow a reasonable rule and gets punished". And nutrition policies are there for a reason, people, and that reason is to keep schools from shoveling trash into student's mouths and turning them into obese soda-guzzing adults that will cost the taxpayers money. Schools have control over one meal a day of a child's life, and I am totally down with making sure it isn't composed of Hostess products and 300 calorie sodas. Now give me boxes because you're all still in highschool and butthurt about not getting candy and soda anymore.

I used to sell simple school supplies in elementary. Bought a pack of assorted things from Walmart and sold the stuff individually. Eventually everyone tried selling random shit because I was making money. I began to notice when one fat kid came up too me and tried to sell me a single gummy bear from his pack for 10 fucking dollars. Kids are stupid. :v:

[QUOTE=residntevl;45990887]Wow MIPS i think Alberta is okay. Everyone hates the Quebec-ers not Albertans.[/QUOTE] The rest of Canada hates Ontario and Quebec more than Alberta. True facts.

Surprised there wasn't any gang violence in the cafeteria

my school got rid of chocolate milk for the first semester of last year. if there's one thing you should know about kids aged 14-18 in the north eastern US, it's that we like our fucking chocolate milk at lunch. people began to bring in their own chocolate syrup and sell shots of the brown gold for $.50 each into your peasant 1% white milk. After weeks of this ordeal and countless students written up, they caved and gave us chocolate milk back. fat free bullshit that doesn't even taste good.

This kid who was a few grades older than me in high school worked at a doughnut shop and got leftovers. He'd bring them in and sell these colossal doughnuts for a cheap price. My math class I'm pretty sure helped him make like 90% of sales. Faculty found out and told him he wasn't supposed to be selling them, but it continued and I think he got away with it. Because of the success the school started actually selling doughnuts in the morning to students the next year.

[QUOTE=Crash155;45989397]what kind of backwards-ass school has a "nutrition policy" Eat our food or get fucked?[/QUOTE] Most schools have healthy stuff in their vending machines nowadays. When that first happened at my school, a part of me died. It was so nice to get a bag of chips or a frozen waffle thing after gym class... Now all you get is saltless crackers, a fucking apple or something else lacking of any taste. I think its because "dem students are getting fat!" despite almost everyone at my school being in some kind of sport...

Wow, I sold all kinds of shit in high school. It was a boarding school so there was lots of potential. I'd buy up boxes of ramen and sell them for $1 a piece (among other stuff that was far superior to the roasted ass served at the cafeteria). For about a month, I bought out everything in the soda machine in the basement and resold it at 100% markup. That was the only thing that the RAs really cared about enough to stop me. Shit, I even ripped a bunch of movies and sold them on DVDs for the same price. MPAA eat your heart out.

[QUOTE=Snowmew;45991114](among other stuff that was far superior to the roasted ass served at the cafeteria).[/QUOTE] But I like eating ass, is that a problem?

[QUOTE=Taepodong-2;45989355][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.[/QUOTE]Fuck, my high school was a veritable drug mall. Name whatever the hell you wanted, I could probably hook you up with a seller in 20 minutes or less. Been a few years since then, so I suppose they could have changed in that time frame, but the place was terrible when I went there.

THANKS MICHELLE OBAMA

[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] This sounds like an allegory for the booming salt trade in the early Middle Ages

No fucking shit. Last year my highschool had a "candy cart" at lunch to go buy skittles and chips and other shit people wanted to eat. Now we've got fucking applesauce and nature valley bars. Us, as students, can't even do school chocolate-sale fundraising anymore.

"Hey, man. Step over here. I got that good shit. Pepsi, man. If you want a bit more flavor, I got dat Vanilla Pepsi, Wild Cherry Pepsi, Pepsi Lime, Pepsi Throwback. Also got some more exotic stuff like Pepsi Raw, Pepsi GOLD, Pepsi Kona, Pepsi Black..."

Some lucrative business you got there.

[QUOTE=.Isak.;45990228]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.[/QUOTE] Carry what you'd need for a certain amount of time, and go to your locker during break time, and swap it out.

[QUOTE=Rocâ„¢;45991112]Most schools have healthy stuff in their vending machines nowadays. When that first happened at my school, a part of me died. It was so nice to get a bag of chips or a frozen waffle thing after gym class... Now all you get is saltless crackers, a fucking apple or something else lacking of any taste. I think its because "dem students are getting fat!" despite almost everyone at my school being in some kind of sport...[/QUOTE] Hey man, dont talk shit about apples. I love me a good apple. I do wish they sold non reduced fat chips and such, though. The reduced fat doritos taste like cardboard.

my high school allowed juniors and seniors to leave campus during lunch. within a 5 minute walk we had a bakery, a pizzeria, a starbucks, a donut shop, a Chinese place, a golden chick, a taco bell, a chipotle, and some weird weaboo japanese place. lunch always felt like you were in one of those comfy sitcoms

Sounds like he got warned and refused to stop. No wonder he got suspended.

[QUOTE=Taepodong-2;45990924]The rest of Canada hates Ontario and Quebec more than Alberta. True facts.[/QUOTE] Your facts hurt me. I live in Ontario.

I remember near 8 years ago when I was still in school selling Coca-Cola from my locker. It wasn't much but I thinking I was earning $20-30 a day in profit alone just for showing up at school. Could sell that shit for a 200% markup and still undercut the cafeteria significantly. It all died when I got hooked on the stuff though.

When I went to middle school they had the same policies it's dumb as fuck.

This post contains a lot of words that are critical of a guy and not meant to argue that the kid in this story is a hero because this shit is kinda dumb. [QUOTE=Used Car Salesman;45990888]And nutrition policies are there for a reason, people, and that reason is to keep schools from shoveling trash into student's mouths and turning them into obese soda-guzzing adults that will cost the taxpayers money. Schools have control over one meal a day of a child's life, and I am totally down with making sure it isn't composed of Hostess products and 300 calorie sodas.[/QUOTE] One should intuit that the Dorito-gorgers targeted by a food ban will still do it at home regardless, providing little positive effect in exchange for inconveniencing an entire student population. A little bit of additional consideration would suggest that youth dietary habits are complex and multivariate, and that reducing access to things like caffeine and sugar in a stressful environment might exacerbate negative behaviors outside of school. There's also the question of if availability of "treats" is inherently negative, or can be allowed if moderating factors exist. This common sense reasoning is reinforced by current research: -There has never been a longitudinal study that demonstrated school sugary beverage bans actually impacted consumption. The closest studies have ever come is [URL="http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/11/20/us-school-ban-idUSTRE4AJ5K420081120"]a depressed shrug[/URL]. -Consumption habits are indeed multivariate, and may be exacerbated by simple school bans if the overall availability of poor food is otherwise unaddressed. Taxing soda and junk food, so that it affects is availability at multiple venues, is an example of an effective strategy. Bans also prove ineffective at altering existing behaviors. "[URL="http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0098249"]Students who were not engaging in healthy weight loss behaviors consumed considerably more soda and fast food if they did not have access to vending machines at school[/URL]...This raises questions of whether school environmental changes can induce behavioral change among individuals who are not otherwise motivated to lose weight." -Studies of extensive school nutrition policies with broad food bans such as in California found students simply eating less school food, [URL="http://archpedi.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1151631"]which affected both caloric [I]and[/I] nutrient intake.[/URL] Merely removing poor foods is insufficient, "policy makers may need to promote more stringent competitive food regulations that are consistent with the Dietary Guidelines for Americans and [I]do not merely ban junk food.[/I]" The presence of soda and junk food in a school, in and of itself, is hard to consider negative. It isn't an absolute thing. There is nothing wrong with a child having a treat [I]on occasion[/I] and those treats remaining readily available. You can certainly advocate disincentivizing it in school settings and daily life, but just saying "we need to ban the cupcakes and Mountain Dew in school" is boneheaded.

I remember selling those pop-pop firecracker things to kids in middle school and one of them got suspended 5 minutes after I sold it to him :v: I made like 15 bucks that day.

Every time a thread like this comes up, it reminds me of how the kids at my high school would bypass all these rules and guidelines. Selling soda and candy (or anything in general) was a big no, and you'd get in trouble for it. People tried, but were quickly closed down by the school administration. Now, the band class that performed for our school sports games would have a mostly year long fundraiser. It involved selling special order chocolate bars (they're the good-but-expensive-and-kind-of-small chocolate bars), along with generic lollipops and other off-brand candy. Operating out of a display stand/travel tote box, they'd be able to go from class to class selling stuff. Proceeds would split towards the school and band. Solution? Carry around a box with the school's band name plastered on it. What essentially happened was we ended up with counterfeit entrepreneurs who would front as a fund-raising band student. They'd sell the actual good candy, and none of the teachers/instructors would pay them much mind. Since they didn't need to meet a budget, the profit margin (thus the candy prices) were kept low. Eventually the faux-salesmen stole enough business from the legit school-salesmen that the school's band fell into some minor financial troubles. This is the sole reason all teachers are now given a list of which students are in classes performing fundraisers.

[QUOTE=Binladen34;45989598]They actually had me arrested for leaving school to get lunch.[/QUOTE] What. It's like, there's not a point in my life where I thought I'd get in trouble with the police for walking out of school. Maybe I'd be in for it with my parent but not the authorities.

Back in jr. high, my buddies and I found this energy drink for 60 cents called "Ace", at a Big Lots nearby. Shit was delicious, and in jr. high, every fuckin kid wanted an energy drink. We sold them for 3$ a piece and made about 1.8k$ in 5 school days. Some shit head ratted us out because we wouldn't let him in on the sales (not our friend, why let him sell with us?) and we almost got expelled for selling on school grounds.