The Seattle School District is actually teaching their students something.
Seattle high schools soon will be reimbursed for the money they’ve lost as a result of the school district’s two-year-old ban on junk food in vending machines.
The district will repay the Associated Student Body clubs at 10 high schools a total of nearly $103,000, restoring the budgets they use to pay for sports transportation and uniforms, school dances, leadership training and other discretionary expenses.
The food fascists came in a couple years back and wiped out all junk food from the schools. What they didn’t seem to realize is that the majority of the ASB budget came from the vending machines and snack counter sales. This put a pinch on everything.
“People come to us for money all the time,” said Trang Nguyen, junior-class secretary at Franklin High School. “We’re like a bank for the school.”
The School Board in Fall 2004 approved a nutrition policy that bans unhealthful food from student stores and vending machines and eliminated an exclusive contract with Coca-Cola. At the time, the board predicted that schools would be able to make up the revenue with fundraising, but for the most part, that hasn’t happened.
South End schools were hit especially hard because most don’t have booster clubs to donate money for sports, and school officials say so many of their students are in poverty that they don’t want to raise other fees or charge kids to play sports to make up the revenue, as some North Seattle schools have done.
Franklin High School lost the most. In 2004-05, before the policy was in place, the Franklin ASB collected nearly $18,000 from vending machines. Last year, the ASB collected less than $3,000.
West Seattle, Chief Sealth, Rainier Beach and Ballard High schools each lost about 80 percent of their ASB budgets.
As was said in the second paragraph of that blockquote, the anti-junk food activists were sure that the ASB’s would find other ways to make for the money, just like how the eco-socialists predict that if we stop buying oil from the ME and never drill in our own reserves, people will find and industry will immediately produce and manufacture some kind of vehicle that runs on pixie dust to replace petrol powered cars.
And make no mistake, these anti-junk food types ARE activists
Outgoing School Board President Brita Butler-Wall, who pushed for the nutrition policy on the board and as an activist before she was elected, said student groups need to figure out other ways to raise money.
She told the parents her agenda if elected. They elected her and now they have to come up with money for extra-curriculars. Money that some of them do not have.
I mean, it isn’t like the kids aren’t going to find someplace that sells what they want and spend their money on it anyway.
Franklin students said it’s not fair that they’ve had the problem “dumped” on them. And they don’t anticipate vending revenues will rebound.
The granola-bar and baked-chips stocked machines are often turned off because of rules barring “competitive” food sales while lunch is being served, and students often walk down the street to McDonald’s or buy snacks at nearby convenience stores.
Another socialist construct gone awry.
It is not the job of the schools to “promote” healthy eating. It is their job to educate students on what is healthy to eat and then hope they learn from it.
Collectivists and activists greatest problem is simply themselves and their inability to resist The Greatest Temptation – that of Authority, and the autocratic implementation.
Once they are able to make “The Rules,” they are incapable of resisting their basic authoritarian impulse to Police them, and once they make one rule they are like addicts and cannot resist making more and more.