Black market tuck shop kid
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Anyone see this on the news? http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/s...
Basically;
school has healthy eating policy. Kid decides to bring in sweets, etc to sell to other kids. Makes £60 a day. Gets suspended. Returns, carries on selling crap despite warnings from parents. Racks up 10 days of suspensions. Parents whine it's too harsh.
apparently he was inspired by dragons den and the apprentice but despite his parents supposedly stopping him he buys from 'bulk discount stores'. Do the likes of macro and cash and carry allow kids to open an account?
so, entrepreneurial or opportunistic little s
t?
Basically;
school has healthy eating policy. Kid decides to bring in sweets, etc to sell to other kids. Makes £60 a day. Gets suspended. Returns, carries on selling crap despite warnings from parents. Racks up 10 days of suspensions. Parents whine it's too harsh.
apparently he was inspired by dragons den and the apprentice but despite his parents supposedly stopping him he buys from 'bulk discount stores'. Do the likes of macro and cash and carry allow kids to open an account?
so, entrepreneurial or opportunistic little s
t?I did this at school. School banned canned drinks so I took 20 cans of Coke, Pepsi and Tango in (then added Diet Coke at my customers's request) and sold them at about a 12p mark up each (late 80s prices).
My teachers were so thick that they actually caught me carrying a bag full of canned drinks TWICE and still didn't cotton on.
My teachers were so thick that they actually caught me carrying a bag full of canned drinks TWICE and still didn't cotton on.
Yeah, brilliant. 
Won't be long until he starts shipping smokes, crystal meth, vicodin...
I expect the parents of the OTHER children don't want their children to be able to buy junk food at school - either from the school or from other kids.
Personally, I'd just expel him if he can't follow simple school rules.
Won't be long until he starts shipping smokes, crystal meth, vicodin...
I expect the parents of the OTHER children don't want their children to be able to buy junk food at school - either from the school or from other kids.
Personally, I'd just expel him if he can't follow simple school rules.
Oakey said:
i love this forum.
had this been a story about some fat overweight kid people would be screaming how parents shouldn't be letting their kids shovel st down their throats. 
Not even slightly, I dislike the fatties as much as the next normal sized person does, but people should be able to eat what they like. I have a crappy diet and eat all sorts of shad this been a story about some fat overweight kid people would be screaming how parents shouldn't be letting their kids shovel s
t down their throats. t (the Mr.Whippy ice cream machine on this rig hasn't worked well for me 
) but do enough exercise that I get by - telling people what they can and cannot eat is nonsense.Parsnip said:
Not even slightly, I dislike the fatties as much as the next normal sized person does, but people should be able to eat what they like. I have a crappy diet and eat all sorts of st (the Mr.Whippy ice cream machine on this rig hasn't worked well for me ) but do enough exercise that I get by - telling people what they can and cannot eat is nonsense.
Quite. Its about balance. Do enough exercise and you can eat what you like. Do less exercise and be more careful with what you eat. But let people use their own brains to work it it out, the nanny state stuff is pathetic.t (the Mr.Whippy ice cream machine on this rig hasn't worked well for me ) but do enough exercise that I get by - telling people what they can and cannot eat is nonsense.Parsnip said:
Not even slightly, I dislike the fatties as much as the next normal sized person does, but people should be able to eat what they like. I have a crappy diet and eat all sorts of st (the Mr.Whippy ice cream machine on this rig hasn't worked well for me ) but do enough exercise that I get by - telling people what they can and cannot eat is nonsense.
But in fairness there are several differing factors here. Most of which revolve around you being an adult and responsible for your actions. Whereas these are kids who are being educated by the State. t (the Mr.Whippy ice cream machine on this rig hasn't worked well for me ) but do enough exercise that I get by - telling people what they can and cannot eat is nonsense.If the school has rules then a vital lesson for kids to learn is to follow these rules or face the consequences. Likewise the school must enforce these rules or it programs a bad precedence at a very young age.
It's the job of any normal child to push and try and break any and all rules, that's a given but the adults need to create and enforce these boundaries.
It is also proven that s
t food impacts kids' ability to focus and learn so it is only right that the State which is paying for this education and wants to reap the rewards of creating as many taxpayers as possible should try to force healthy food into the kids. A black marketeer in this instance is simply a threat to be eradicated. We want obedient and productive taxpayers to be manufactured in our schools not more fat and lazy
s who have never experienced discipline and spend their life failing to pay enough tax. 
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