Why, oh why do school administrators make the decisions they do?

[Exterous]

My wifes' school district decided to basically gut the school store - an operation that netted the school $105,000+ last school year.

Why? Health reasons. So, under the new guidelines the following items are not allowed:
Pop/soda
chips/chex mix
cookies
non-low fat/sodium crackers
candy bars
Gatorade - or any other kind of sports drink
pretzels
most types of popcorn
granola bars

What is currently sold:
Water

Coming soon:
soy granola bars
low sodium pretzels
popcorn with no salt, butter, artificial flavoring
low fat/sodium crackers

I am sure the students will jump all over the water and...wait....thats all they have to sell now. All they have to do is run their competition out of town. Damn water fountains giving away their water for free! Oh well, I hear that the soy granola bars are hip with the youngsters right now.

As well all know, schools are just bathing in excess cash so this is a great time to cut back on that excessive income! :disgust: I can understand wanting to have the kids eat healthy, but the school is already running a budget deficit and I seriously doubt that the school store will make the same kind of contribution it did last year.

*sigh*

 

[Ns1]

So the kids are just gonna stop by CVS or the liquor store or ralphs and buy that shit and bring it to school instead.

 

[Tim]

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[BKLounger]

hell an enterprising kid could just buy a ton of candy bulk at costco cheap and flip a nice profit in school selling black market candy.

 

[Kirby]

Originally posted by: BKLounger
hell an enterprising kid could just buy a ton of candy bulk at costco cheap and flip a nice profit in school selling black market candy.

We had a person get suspended for that at my high school. She made decent money before she was caught though.

 

[pstylesss]

Why are you the way that you are?

 

[Born2bwire]

Originally posted by: ZeroIQ
Why are you the way that you are?

No... not the right time or place. Odin hasn't posted yet.

 

[MrChad]

Sounds like they could use greater variety, but I don't see anything wrong with the school promoting healthy eating habits through their store. Isn't a bit presumptuous to say that revenues will drop as a result of the switch?

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: BKLounger
hell an enterprising kid could just buy a ton of candy bulk at costco cheap and flip a nice profit in school selling black market candy.

Ever watch 'The Wire'

 

[Fingolfin269]

No Gatorade or sports drinks? WTH?

 

[MrWizzard]

Is this in the public sector?

If so I am not surprised the public school system has been broke for a while now. Of course people think throwing more money at it will fix it...sigh.

 

[JDub02]

According to my wife, who is a teacher, it's because they are idiots who are completely out of touch with reality.

 

[LS21]

Originally posted by: MrChad
Sounds like they could use greater variety, but I don't see anything wrong with the school promoting healthy eating habits through their store. Isn't a bit presumptuous to say that revenues will drop as a result of the switch?

no

and schools shouldnt be nannies. if their parents allow the kids to become fatties then so be it. schools dont need to promote healthy food habits - they need to promote EXERCISE. i ate candy but i wasnt fat. a coke and a candy bar a day wont make you fat unless you sit at home playing Wow all day. society in general should embrace better haelthier food but thats another topic

 

[pstylesss]

Originally posted by: Born2bwire

Originally posted by: ZeroIQ
Why are you the way that you are?

No... not the right time or place. Odin hasn't posted yet.

LEAVE MY JOKE ALONE!

First thing I thought of based on OPs title. But yes, it applies to Odin 110%.

 

[LS21]

Originally posted by: JDub02
According to my wife, who is a teacher, it's because they are idiots who are completely out of touch with reality.

sounds right to me. for most people in these public roles aamof.

 

[HannibalX]

Originally posted by: LS21

Originally posted by: MrChad
Sounds like they could use greater variety, but I don't see anything wrong with the school promoting healthy eating habits through their store. Isn't a bit presumptuous to say that revenues will drop as a result of the switch?

no

and schools shouldnt be nannies. if their parents allow the kids to become fatties then so be it. schools dont need to promote healthy food habits - they need to promote EXERCISE. i ate candy but i wasnt fat. a coke and a candy bar a day wont make you fat unless you sit at home playing Wow all day. society in general should embrace better haelthier food but thats another topic

I think they should promote both, it is a school after all. I know it's hard to grasp but learning is the point.

 

[dquan97]

If it was up to me, I'd have a panel of students meet w/ a nutritionist to select healthy snacks/drinks that are affordable, healthy, and appealing to kids.

 

[CPA]

Originally posted by: MrChad
Sounds like they could use greater variety, but I don't see anything wrong with the school promoting healthy eating habits through their store. Isn't a bit presumptuous to say that revenues will drop as a result of the switch?

Not presumptuous at all. You would see similar trends in the general public, but you don't. Kids won't eat that crap. I know I wouldn't have.

 

[AstroManLuca]

Originally posted by: BKLounger
hell an enterprising kid could just buy a ton of candy bulk at costco cheap and flip a nice profit in school selling black market candy.

My brother did a similar thing except instead of bringing in "restricted" candy bars (his high school wasn't stupid and let anyone get whatever they wanted) he would buy exotic stuff from the Chinese grocery store and sell it for a profit. Koala Yummies and Pocky.

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

It's stupid. It's not the school's fault. It's the parents fault for not telling their children to eat in moderate and exercise. But that's a story for something else. Yeah it sucks, but that's how it goes for now.

 

[Lamont Burns]

Originally posted by: CPA

Originally posted by: MrChad
Sounds like they could use greater variety, but I don't see anything wrong with the school promoting healthy eating habits through their store. Isn't a bit presumptuous to say that revenues will drop as a result of the switch?

Not presumptuous at all. You would see similar trends in the general public, but you don't. Kids won't eat that crap. I know I wouldn't have.

As a kid when I was hungry, I ate whatever the fuck was available.

 

[ICRS]

Did they ban fried food too.

At my last year of HS long ago, they banned fried food, candy, soda, ice cream. Basically anything that was good. It wasn't just the sale that was ban, it was possesion of these items was forbiden on school campus.

 

[darkswordsman17]

Originally posted by: CPA

Originally posted by: MrChad
Sounds like they could use greater variety, but I don't see anything wrong with the school promoting healthy eating habits through their store. Isn't a bit presumptuous to say that revenues will drop as a result of the switch?

Not presumptuous at all. You would see similar trends in the general public, but you don't. Kids won't eat that crap. I know I wouldn't have.

Yeah, teenagers really don't have an interest in health foods. Its not like they don't know that eating healthy and exercising is good (which is why simple teaching like that fails miserably, and in depth does as well, because its high school and few people are really interested in learning a lot). Forcing only a certain option on them will only make them hate it even more.

If they want to improve health they should look at school lunches (if they offer them there). The ones in my high school were loaded with fat and calories and pretty much no whole grains or anything. Their idea of fruit was basically two slices of banana and a whole strawberry in a sugar laden "sauce".

 

[polarmystery]

Soy products increase estrogen production and lower testostone. They are going to turn that school into a bunch of pansies

FACT

 

[pstylesss]

Originally posted by: polarmystery
Soy products increase estrogen production and lower testostone. They are going to turn that school into a bunch of pansies

FACT

Soy is the answer to reducing teen pregnancy.