Actually this is great news! I'm sending my kid to school with a couple of cases to start a black market.
My kid doesn't drink a lot of pop, but I may start puting a can in her lunch every day, just to show 'em I *can*.
It is much more appropriate for students to sip Chai Tea whie reading "Heather Has Two Mommies".
I saw a blurb on this last night....and my jaw dropped to see the William Clinton Foundation attached to this....
First of all....how is he making money off this deal??
Second of all....I thought this was America, freedom of some choices...
A teenager girl CAN choose to have an abortion, according to Clinton...but, NOW Clinton is going to keep her from choosing a Diet Coke over juice????
Not to worry dear stock holders of soft drink companies ... those same companies agreed to this because they will make MORE MONEY selling the water they bottle!
Ping.
Ping
The amount of control people are willing to give up to government is amazing. Even small things like what refreshment we may consume are controlled.
"My kid is a fat slob and it's all your fault!!!" syndrome coupled with typical spineless pandering by our "leaders".
When I went to high school, not all that long ago, we had Coke machines. We also had this large room we went to 2x a week to do physical activity. Sometime we even...went outside, to run!!! in a circle!!! for no reason whatsoever.
/sarc off
The village is saved!! It's all about the children!! What a farce!!
I am so glad I send my kids to private school.
The trial lawyers are going after Big Sugar using exactly the same tactics that brought them billions of dollars from Big Tobacco.
While these people's education panacea is nutrition, our local school district is absolutely convinced that class scheduling is the magic bullet.
The stats recently showed that the average student bought less than a can a week. I was not surprised to see Clinton's name attached, because like so much of his 8 year administration, this is an emotional appeal, a "feel good" move that accomplishes, in the end, absolutely nothing.
Wanna get rid of sugar? Get rid of the sugary teachings of SOCIALISM in our schools!
Finally ... with soft drinks out of the way it leaves more time to practice homosexuality, witchcraft, abortion, anarchy, drug addiction and all theother approved courses of study in public education today.
Wasn't it the Clinton administration that allowed soft drink companies to put soda machines in public schools?
IIRC, soda machines were banned in CA schools about 25 years ago. (...though I think that I've seen them on local campuses since. There may have been a lapse in the ban or it may have been just my district. I wasn't paying particular attention to the issue.) At my high school, the administration removed the soda machines from the lunch area. However, they didn't know about the machine in the varsity boys' locker room; and our coaches weren't about to tell them! On at least one occasion, I helped one of the coaches smuggle in a fresh load of sodas to refill the machine.
Hey, little girl, c'mere. Wanna buy some REAL Coke sweetened with high fructose corn syrup?
It's a health issue donchaknow....
Soda Pop...vs the Homosexual Lifestyle...
Soda Pop is the obvious choice of things that must go and what should remain....