School Fined $15,000 for Selling Soda: Acceptable or Outrageous?
SodaHead Living
2012/05/22 13:00:00
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The federal government is reportedly suing Davis High School in Salt Lake City, Utah for accidentally selling soda to kids during lunch time -- a violation of federal law. The violation is costing the school $0.75 per student (that's about $15,000 total) and forcing it to make budget cuts elsewhere to pay for the offence. Remarkably, some people are upset.
Principal Dee Burton told KUTV, "The rule is vague and open to interpretation. For example, the way the rule reads -- you can buy before lunch starts a carbonated beverage, buy school lunch, sit down in the cafeteria, eat the school lunch and not be in violation ... You can sell Snickers and Milkyway bars because they have nuts and they're nutritious. You can't sell licorice, but you can sell ice-cream ... The misconception is if we don't let kids buy candy and pop, we drive them to the cafeteria, it doesn't drive them to the cafeteria it drives them off campus." Does it sound fair to you?
Principal Dee Burton told KUTV, "The rule is vague and open to interpretation. For example, the way the rule reads -- you can buy before lunch starts a carbonated beverage, buy school lunch, sit down in the cafeteria, eat the school lunch and not be in violation ... You can sell Snickers and Milkyway bars because they have nuts and they're nutritious. You can't sell licorice, but you can sell ice-cream ... The misconception is if we don't let kids buy candy and pop, we drive them to the cafeteria, it doesn't drive them to the cafeteria it drives them off campus." Does it sound fair to you?
Top Opinion
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CUDDLY BUT STILL CRABBY 2012/05/22 14:20:30
By Fining them all our government is doing is letting them get away with it, and making all land owners tax go up. We The People pay for the schools out of are taxes.
So is this a joke
our Government wasting more of are money to teach us not to tell them what to do. By Fining the School they are Fining us, Everyone wake up tell your leaders in our Government to Fire the ones that do bad lots of people would love to have their job.
Their are a lot of wicked in office in our land, that a lot of Good out of work would be more then happy to have work. The pay some of them get is a Joke let them try to run their own company and see if they can make half as much.
Let’s take out all the Artificial Colors and Flavors that are a danger to us all,
not to think about all the Dangerous Food Preservatives. The health risks that we
all pay should be enough to teach all Leaders to stop it. You want lower health
cost start with the number one cause of 90% of the problems chemical ingredients
drugs. Let our children eat good food not the man made chemical ingredients and
drugs found in many processed foods.
Take soda pop out of all schools and put back in Nutrition Whole Milk. 90% of all
the Olympic Athletes gold medalists drink Whol...
By Fining them all our government is doing is letting them get away with it, and making all land owners tax go up. We The People pay for the schools out of are taxes.
So is this a joke
our Government wasting more of are money to teach us not to tell them what to do. By Fining the School they are Fining us, Everyone wake up tell your leaders in our Government to Fire the ones that do bad lots of people would love to have their job.
Their are a lot of wicked in office in our land, that a lot of Good out of work would be more then happy to have work. The pay some of them get is a Joke let them try to run their own company and see if they can make half as much.
Let’s take out all the Artificial Colors and Flavors that are a danger to us all,
not to think about all the Dangerous Food Preservatives. The health risks that we
all pay should be enough to teach all Leaders to stop it. You want lower health
cost start with the number one cause of 90% of the problems chemical ingredients
drugs. Let our children eat good food not the man made chemical ingredients and
drugs found in many processed foods.
Take soda pop out of all schools and put back in Nutrition Whole Milk. 90% of all
the Olympic Athletes gold medalists drink Whole MILK.
i have been drinking half and half milk cream since 1964 and can brake three
2 by 4's in less than a second and a half. i have good strong bones thanks to milk
and GOD.
USA Leaders others countries started to put a end to chemical ingredients and drugs
a while ago what are we waiting for the Drug CEO's and Drug Cartels to approve it?
05/07/2012 01:08 PM EDT D.O.J. Washington, D.C.
Global Health Care Company Abbott Laboratories Inc. has pleaded guilty and agreed to pay $1.5 billion to resolve its criminal and civil liability arising from the company’s unlawful promotion of the prescription drug Depakote for uses not approved as safe and effective by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Justice Department announced today. The resolution – the second largest payment by a drug company – includes a criminal fine and forfeiture totaling $700 million and civil settlements with the federal government and the states totaling $800 million. Abbott also will be subject to court-supervised probation and reporting obligations for Abbott’s CEO and Board of Directors.
For a while i chauffeured the CEO's of Abbott Laboratories Inc. Jack W. Schuler was one they should have kept he was very smart and a nice man to work with. It is Abbott's loss $$$$$$$$$ that he is no longer with them.
The Lord's Little Helper
Paul Felix Schott
As long as this woman stay in the Washington she will have the muscle to do this nation wide.
I am aware of the school district in Texas that gets fined every year for violating the sugar/fat rules and they don't care because their profit from selling junk food is much greater than the fines they recieve.
Growing up in my house my mother who did all the grocery shopping only bought healthy food. The only sweets that she would buy came from fruits and Not candy or soda, which at my house soda and candy were a treat. Thereby, when I'd go to school I'd get my sugar fix there. Moreover, it’s the PARENTS responsible for their Children's diets and NOT the GOVERNMENT!!!
I’ve continued this practice that my mother taught me onto my children. At their school, which happens to be a Private Christian School, they have a vending machine for candies and sodas. Since my children are Not given any monies to take to school and take their own lunch from home guess who monitors what they eat, me, Mom. This is what I call Parenting and my kids are Strong and Healthy; Thank God.
Plank #10 of Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto calls for government controled public schools, the only reason public schools served the US as well as they have, is because until only recently public school were largely locally and state controled. The real questions we should be asking is should we have public schools (as we know them now) at all? And if so who should be the governing body? Certainly not the federal level "no child left behind!"
Are you always a misogynistic ahole.
I don't recall speaking to you before so you can stick your wrong again and your honey BS.
As far as the blog is concerned, let Utah send their massive amount of federal education money back to the taxpayers and they can do whatever they want; otherwise live up to the terms set up between the gov't and our educational system for the last 15 years. If you drive like an idiot on our streets, someone will tell you that you are in violation of the law. There you go, big gov't. restricting our freedoms. That's a small example of what govt is supposed to do; protect the majority.