Posted on 09/15/2014 11:34:14 AM PDT by Phlap
A Grade 12 student in Lethbridge, Alta., was suspended last week for dealing Pepsi to fellow students out of his locker.
Keenan Shaw was suspended for two days by Winston Churchill high school for selling the soft drink to students, violating a school policy that only permits diet pop on the premises.
Shaw says he was told the sales violated the nutrition and marketing policies, and that he was operating a business without a licence.
But compared with what some other students sell at the southern Alberta school, Shaw says, his transgressions were minor.
"I'm not going to name any names, but I know a couple of people selling marijuana, there's kids selling smokes, there was a kid last year selling meth, as well as a kid selling acid," said Shaw.
Shaw says he has been told he will be expelled if the pop sales continue.
His mother says she believes the school went a little over the top and that the punishment is too extreme.
That principal will be lucky to keep his job pulling a stupid thing like that in a place like S. Carolina.
When my kids were in Middle School there was a kid that used to buy a couple of dozen Double Bubble Gums on the way to school for 2 cents each and sell them to kids,during the school day,for 5 cents each.
He’s probably a millionaire today.
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How difficult is it to put regular soda into a diet soda bottle?
Who’s zooming who?
What an overpriced, stupid upside down world we have created?!
I’m surprised they haven’t gone after changing the name of the school.
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My son was reported to me for chronic tardiness to class in elementary school. He was so exasperated when I spoke to him about it. He said he lagged behind to pick up stock for his store—change too. He was selling pencils, erasers, stickers, etc. When I required he be on time, he shifted to in-class services, such as sharpening pencils and carrying cafeteria trays. You can’t stop an entrepreneur.
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Winston Churchill High School.
Shoulda been dealing brandy and cigars.
It’s been suggested - I can’t remember where I read it - that diet colas and such help create the tendency to over eat.
It works something like this: sugar in all it’s many forms and sources, is a known substance to the body. Your tounge is a sensor, it tastes the sweetness and signals the brain. The brain then signals the body - sugar incoming- and the body gears up to process it.
And that works fine with sugars. But the artificial stuff ain’t sugar. Oh it tastes sweet, and the tongue and brain do their thing. But when the fake stuff hits the system, the body gets confused. Hey brain, where’s the damn sugar. I just sent out all these enzymes and stuff to process it, and it ain’t here, and these guys are just standing around with nothing to do!
Given me something for them to do.
So brain says OK and proceeded to ask for more stuff. Anything, just give me more stuff so these guys can get to work, cause stomach is getting cranky.
We’ve been processing sugars in all it’s forms since the beginning. The fake stuff, it can’t deal with.
The movie One, Two, Three with Jimmy Cagney and Arlene Dahl about a Coca-Cola executive living in West Berlin and trying to keep his boss’s wild, Southern Belle teenage daughter from marrying a Communist. It’s hilarious and a definite must-see. Billy Wilder was the director.
Schools...enforcing government mandated religion of liberalism.
Thank You. Will watch.
Phosphoric acid in soda accounts for only about .2% of the total syrup formula of any given soft drink. Do you think that minute amount of acid is going to affect your health, much less survive the much stronger acid in your stomach? Chemistry is hard.
but the diet soft drinks, with the aspartame that loves to eat the brain
Huh? If that's true, then consuming chicken and bananas also eats the human brain away with much greater voracity than aspartame. Who knew?
Actually, hfcs is used up here too. Only Mexican soft drinks use real sugar.
Erm . . . no, our soft drinks are made with HFCS too.
Not that there's anything wrong with that: high-fructose corn syrup is a mixture of glucose and fructose, while cane sugar (sucrose) is a disaccharide consisting of a fructose and a glucose molecule bonded together. The body breaks the bond between the two monosaccharides via hydrolysis, and then the end result is basically the same: two simple sugars the body can digest and use for energy.
“Thus, is another black marketeer born.”
A budding John Adams.
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