Tuesday - June 02, 2009

THERE’S A DARN GOOD REASON PPL CALL THIS PLACE, “THE NANNY STATE.” HERE’S JUST ONE EXAMPLE.

Naturally there are others but this one caught my eye this evening.

What a load of BS. Like kids won’t get their candy fix anyway.  Take a look.

BTW ... for Americans. A translation. Crisps are what we would call potato chips. 
Chips here in UK are what we call French Fries.

Must say though.  When I was going to school, the school we went to had no cafeteria. We all went home for lunch, school was in our area so we’d walk to and from. In those far away days, kids weren’t bused across town just to meet some screwed up racial mandate or quota.  A community school was just that. Close enough to walk and only a few needing rides. In fact, we didn’t have a school bus for the Sarah J. Rawson school. Generally called the Holcolm St. School cuz that’s were it was.  Kids living further afield brought food to school I think. If we had a cafeteria I sure wasn’t aware of it.
Candy? Nope. Didn’t have much of that either except as a treat at home. But there wasn’t any health restriction on it. And Hershey bars were five cents and they were bigger then they are now.

That entire neighborhood has changed of course.  Some 25 years ago I went home for a visit and saw chain link fences in the old hood. Most of the houses didn’t look like the lawns were tended ( same for those once nice houses) and the old school had a chain fence around it.  I wonder if the name was changed.  ???  Probably the Saint Martin Luther King school by now.  The area is ugly now. No surprise of course.

Grammar school pupils face suspension for selling sweets to sugar-starved friends amid junk food ban
By JAYA NARAIN
Last updated at 3:22 PM on 02nd June 2009

Smuggling contraband sweets into school and selling them to classmates is an enterprise that will be familiar to generations of schoolchildren.

But now pupils at a top grammar school have been warned they will be kicked out the classroom if they continue to deal sweets.

Entrepreneurial youngsters have set up a ‘black market’ at their school selling everything from fizzy drinks, sweets, crisps.

But the pupil-run enterprise is a direct contravention of strict rules banning junk food, sweets and pop at the school and pupils smuggling in the contraband sweets have been told they will be suspended.

The warning comes after the ‘sweet ‘racket’ was foiled by staff at top-rated St Anselm’s College in Birkenhead.

The tuck shop entrepreneurs are just the latest in a long line of retaliatory responses to the Government’s drive to promote eating in schools. The handful of culprits were also caught selling fizzy drinks and sweets to pupils travelling to school on the bus.

Headteacher at St Anselm’s, Simon Duggan, fears the practice is encouraging fights and thefts at his school.

In a strongly worded letter to parents at the 450-pupil school, Mr Duggan warned those caught will be excluded from school and ‘their ill-gotten gains’ confiscated.

He added: ‘Sweets are not allowed to be sold in schools under food regulations and we will not let any student subvert these necessary rules.

‘The governors and I expect the full co-operation of parents in this matter. It is simply an issue of common sense.

Tuck shop entrepreneurs: The boys were caught selling sweets to fellow pupils

He said the ‘sweet racket’ was a small scale problem involving only a few of pupils but said he did not want it to grow.

Mr Duggan said the sweet dealing was at odds with the school’s healthy eating push and hard work aimed towards a balanced diet.  He added: ‘We are keen to develop budding entrepreneurs but not if it involves doing something on the margins of legality.’

Anti-obesity campaigners today said they were fully behind the school’s stance - citing fizzy drinks as a major cause of dental problems and obesity.

Dr Tam Fry of the National Obesity Forum said: ‘If he is trying to promote healthy eating he would become frustrated by what’s gone on and decide this is his only course of action.’

The health drive was launched in 2006 after TV chef Jamie Oliver brought the media spotlight to focus on the issue.

He embarrassed the Government into action over tougher food standards and ensured school meals have got healthier.

But in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, mothers passed their children Mcdonald’s burgers, crisps and chips over the school fence after teachers banned junk food.

A primary school was accused of running a ‘mealtime Gestapo’ after insisting on inspecting children’s lunchboxes for unhealthy food.

If pupils are found to have sweets, chocolate, fizzy drinks or full-fat crisps, teachers confiscate them and hold them in the staffroom.

The snacks were seized at Danegrove Primary School in Barnet, North London and were then returned at the end of the day if parents asked for them.

In 2007, Standish High School in Wigan banned pupils from leaving the school grounds at lunchtime, stopping them from going to fast food outlets.

Some children phoned a local sandwich delivery man who came to the school and passed the food through the gates. Teachers complained and the sandwich seller was asked to move on by police.

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