School Fined $15,000 for Selling Soda: Acceptable or Outrageous?

You sound like those nice people who put other people into the trains, to go to camp.

This is ridiculous! Where is personal responsibility? Ban this ban that? What is next to ban and fine for? Using harsh language? Banning kids for bringing soda from home in their lunches? This big brother crap is getting seriously out of hand....

I say if we ban anything - we should ban banning itself. This is just crazy.

Maiko, don't look now; they already do that.

If you can't sell soda, you won't.

But they did. So...

There are over 30 different diet sodas on the market, and yet most soda machines carry one! Kids should not be drinking sugar loaded soda in school.
The list of things sold is ridiculously absurd in the logic used. One thing is loaded with sugar and another the same is banned, goog lord just ban all unhealthy foods from school. If kids want those items, let them eat them at home, school is for preparing yourself for life in the real world, not a gourmet tour of candyland!!
If what it takes to get that message across is to sue a school for crossing the line, than so be it!!!!!
Someone made that decision to violate federal law in that school, maybe that person should be looked at, or fired??????

The persons responsible for the decision to continually break the law should personally be fined.

Fined, and fired!

and then sent to some nice camp.

Ahhhh, fired teachers don't g to nice camps, corrupt political leaders do!
Teachers or school administration employees no one cares where the hell they go, as long as they just go!

Oh Jeez , lookee here, an honest to goodness environmental nazi.

Oh Jeez , lookee here, an honest to goodness bigot.
What else ya got for me????

A bigot? You're the Green Nazi, not me.

Not only are you clueless, but you don't have the capacity to understand or interpret the political arena on any level.
People on your level call everything they can't figure out "Nazi", lol which only shows how really, really stupid you are.
What else ya got for me knucklehead??????

The only political arena I and other Americans need to understand is when we need to stand up to Environmental Terrorist such as you by all means at our disposal and yes if it means we must resort to physical confrontation to stop you tyrants, we certainly will.

Well i'm not an environmental terrorist, I help America save millions by easing up electrical grids in cities across America, that's my job that I do with the army corps of engineers as a private contractor. I show cities how to use solar, wind turbine and agricultural design to maximise their power needs and save money on that power.
While people like me are actually doing something to solve Americas ever rising power needs, people like you threaten that which you know nothing about, so you rant on like the fanatics you are.
Physical confrontation???????/
Lol, don't make me laugh so hard nitwit, you won't be doing anything but threaten, because you can't do anything but talk, as people like yourself always do, lol!!!
What else ya got for me weakling ?????

LMAO, I really got under your skin, don't try and prove anything with me tree hugger, I didn't ask for it nor do I care about your work with the Army Corps of Engineers, for right now I am satisfied enough to know that I got under your skin.

If your satisfied that your empty words have acheived their intended goal then I am happy for you my friend. As your mental outlook of the world is nothing to criticize, but to seek help for.
You have a nice day.

Junk Food should not be offered or be in schools, childern get enough at home from the parents. Junk food should be given on a limited base as a treat not a everyday meal.
I all so believe that if you are receiving Food Stamps or any assist. you should not be able to buy any JUNK FOOD.

But what qualifies as junk food? That's an entirely too vague statement to every have any push.

It's just Soda...Not as if it were cocaine or something...Every school I've been to has sold Soda at some stage, usually to raise money for charity.

But, do use protection.

Damn, you're right...

Soda is no good for anyone it dehydrates the brain and can eventually cause mental problems.Give the kids water,juice or something that rehydrates...if they start doing the right thing at a young age they'll have fewer problems later in life.

They should sell different fruit juices to children instead of harmful sodas!

Read the label on those juice containers! I know enough chemistry for some of them to scare the bat crap out of me. For example, Sucralose is a chlorinated sugar which is about as weird as it gets. Just one example.

They shouldn't sell soda to students at school. Kids eat enough bad things and at least at school you should feel that they have access to fruit juice, water or milk. That being sad the fine is way too high and the academics shouldn't have to suffer because of someone making an idiot mistake.

I'm soooo surprised that the government passed a law that is not perfectly clear to everyone. They have such a great record for doing so. I think if we put more emphasis on educating our children at the highest level possible they would probably be smart enough to make the right choices about food and drinks on their own. I love the hypocrisy here...our leaders are so concerned about their own little personal pet projects and getting re-elected (mostly just getting re-elected) that they have taken and taken from our school systems, allowed teacher's unions to control and take from the school systems, lowered the standards for our children to make up for the fact that they are not getting a decent education and then they turn around and make it worse by bogging them down with rules and regulations to the point that the school systems have to focus on meeting those requirements 24/7 instead of being able to enrich the kids environment by providing what they really need. I've been seeing and hearing a lot of people say that we need to take back our country....YES WE DO!! Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians, Independents....we need to take back our country from the government!! They have been sitting up there for years acting like they know what's best for us and what has it done for us?? Turned everything upside down and into crap! And this is just another idiotic example to add to the list!

Please, please, please, can't we just have our military round up all the liberal progressives in the country, and most especially in government, and ship them off to live in Russia or North Korea? They'd be happy there, that's the lifestyle they're aiming for, to re-shape America into, so why don't they just leave the Land of the Free, and go live there? They are NOT WANTED here! I am SO sick & tired of ridiculous rules by the government, trying to tell people how to eat, how to drink, how to drive, how to live, how to take care of their kids, how to take care of themselves, and then pay through the nose when you die!

Get a clue, idiot govt. worms, punishing schools with misleading rules about when or why a kid can buy soda will not make the kids want soda any less! If they can't buy it at school ONLY during their lunch hour, they'll just bring it from home or leave the campus to get it. That's the was it was in my school days, too. The kids just walked off campus to the nearby Circle K to buy all the junk-food they wanted. Trying to take a person's freedom of choice away from them only makes them want the denied substance all the more.

This is UTAH......has been republican dominated since the mid 70's. Your quick to blame liberal progressives when in fact they had no bearing on this issue.

Baloney! It was Lib-Tards from outside the state that imposed the rules and then hired local tools to do their bidding.

I'm referring to this on a national level, as all public schools across the country have been taken over by a bunch of nanny goats that refuse to let students decide for themselves. Now they're even trying to stop parents from deciding what to feed their kids. There was a school in the news recently, back east I believe, that took some kid's lunch away from him, a lunch his Mother had packed for him, because they said it wasn't nutritious enough to meet their standards. They made the kid eat a lunch from the school cafeteria that actually was worse than what the kid's original lunch was. What gave those school officials the right to usurp the parents' choice in what to feed their kid? All of this feeds into the problem of "If you give the govt. an inch, they'll take ten miles."

Maybe that's why the 7-11 across from Northridge HS (also in Davis County) closed.

I'd be interested in knowing why that 7-11 closed, then. Perhaps the powers that be didn't want them so near the school, offering their temptations? My high school had a 7-11 nearby too, and they did big business from the students, for sure. But they also knew how to protect themselves from teenage sneak-thieves. They'd only allow 3-4 students in at a time, so they wouldn't get over-run by high school kids, and worry about how many were leaving their store with their pockets stuffed full. The students lined up outside the store would shout inside to the others to hurry up with their shopping so they would get a turn before classes were due to start. The system seemed to work for that store, anyway.

Schools already have a ton of budget issues, adding a fine for something frivolous like this is doing more damage than anything else.

I'd rather see the money go to giving those kids a better education.

Its rediculous!!!!! They can sell them before but not during lunch??? Just sounds stupid to me. You cant keep kids from doing everything. People think if you make it illegal it stops. It just makes it more attractive for kids to want it. If they cant have soda what makes them not get soda or beer or drugs??? Just rediculous kids cant be kids these days

since when is soda illegal to sell?