Brickbat: Just Eat It

Pennsylvania's Aliquippa School District has announced that it is going to begin searching students' bags and will confiscate and throw away "excessive amounts" of snacks. In a Facebook post, the school district said each student will be limited to one 4-ounce bag of chips and one beverage of no more than 20 ounces. That Facebook post was removed after receiving hundreds of negative comments, but the policy remains in place. Superintendent Phillip Woods said students were bringing snacks to school to sell or to trade, and the policy is aimed at reducing that activity.

Comments

[Bob1062]

These kids are learning the value of free trade, cooperation, relationship building. We can't have that!

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Right. Instead, the schools should demonstrate the values of communism, by redistributing confiscated snacks according to party membership and status.

[BillyG]

I'm pretty sure they are doing that. You think the teachers are going to throw away all that stolen er... confiscated food?

[Inigo Montoya]

Entrepreneurship in schools will not be tolerated. We can’t have kids growing up with any ideas of possibly moving beyond working for a wage since that will make for adults who are harder to control.

[Jerryskids]

The kids, having learned abut free enterprise, are ready to move on to learning about smuggling and the black market.

[Will Nonya]

Seems the school is using the border patrol method of contraband control. I would say I hope it works out better for the school but I can't see where these people get off confiscating food, even junk food.

[cgr2727]

The snowflake generation is all grown up now and a large chunk of them have become teachers. Let’s hope one of them has that generation’s ubiquitous peanut allergy and grabs some kid’s fluffernutter sandwich out of his backpack.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

They will then charge the child (and parent) with attempted murder. Peanuts (and words) are violence.

[cgr2727]

Why is everyone against common-sense restrictions on snacks? You don’t need to drink more than 4 ounces of chips or 20 ounces of soda. You certainly don’t need a multi-pack that would make it too easy and quick to change out the flavors of snacks while going on a school-eating binge. The founding fathers certainly didn’t intend for children to be eating snacks at school, what they really meant was that only cops and soldiers should have donuts. A snack container that only holds one pretzel is more than enough for school.

[LarryA]

"You don’t need to drink more than 4 ounces of chips or 20 ounces of soda."
Maybe not in Pennsylvania. Down here in Texas we call a 20-ounce drink "routine hydration." There's a reason our restaurants serve big glasses of iced tea, with free refills.
And if you're drinking more than 4 oz. of chips, well...
But then my [sarc] meter kicked in, and I saw what you did there.

[cgr2727]

Also, “Wow, people really hate this policy and we’ve been getting hundreds of negative comments from the parents whose children are entrusted to us. Sounds like we should re-think that policy to better meet the needs of the community we serve. Ha! Had you all going there for a minute, didn’t I? Nah, we’ll keep the policy, and just remove the post about it!”

[mad.casual]

Nah, we’ll keep the policy, and just remove the post about it!”

"... Also, don't forget, the rumors of schools grooming your children, brainwashing them with CRT, and targeting those of you people who've found out about it and spoken out against it have been greatly exaggerated. Go Quips!"

[Longtobefree]

"Superintendent Phillip Woods said students were bringing snacks to school to sell or to trade, and the policy is aimed at reducing that activity."

Sounds like probable cause to me - - - - - -

[Jeb Kerman]

I agree.

Wonder what happens when they rob the judge's kid?

[TJJ2000]

[WE] Nazi's must eliminate the resistance sooner!!!!
Teach them young to have no Liberty or Justice and they'll be more accepting as adults.

Commie-Indoctrination Camps spreading like wildfire.

[R Mac]

When I was in middle school, I walked to school (would that even be allowed now?), stopping by the store to buy packs of gum that I would resell as single pieces. If I had to smuggle them in, I would’ve had to raise prices.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

You sold loosies? Man, you are lucky that officials didn't strangle you on the sidewalk.

[Brandybuck]

Time for cargo pants to come back into style. The kind with dozens of pockets.

[cgr2727]

Yeah, I definitely don’t want to buy a smuggled piece of gum that’s been, shall we say, clenched.

[Vernon Depner]

Or regurgitated.

[CLM1227]

Is it really regurgitation if you didn’t attempt to swallow?

[Jerry B.]

Shortly we should expect the White House to issue an Executive Order creating the SEA (Snack Enforcement Administration) and naming a Snack Czar. The War on Snacks has begun.

[R Mac]

Michelle Obama already was that.

[mad.casual]

Isn't it really weird how, a week after Obama visits the WH, the seemingly dead issues about wiping smut off the internet, banning ghost guns, and what kids eat are back at the center of the Biden/DNC platform? And by 'really weird' I mean exactly what you would expect from a vacuous figurehead at the helm of a puppet regime.

[Tyval Dayall]

"one beverage of no more than 20 ounces"

Does this include water? How about milk? What about a 20 oz. bottle of water which is really vodka? (not that I ever did that).

[BillyG]

20 oz of vodka? Lightweight.

[Chasman1965]

My guess is that they have a couple of students who are selling stuff to other students at a better price than what the cafeteria does.

[Minadin]

I'm not sure if this is the same school or not, but I read about one recently that had basically eliminated the snack and soda machines and etc., to try and force the students to eat healthier.

That's when the little criminal masterminds / entrepreneurs began to bring snacks to sell or trade their friends.

[markm23]

They can't have the kids learning capitalism.