Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:41:00
Candy is more profitable if you factor in the guns and the cops
You know what I love about this story of children dealing candy that has been banned in their school?
With candy sales banned on school campuses, sugar pushers are the latest trend at local schools. Backpacks are filled with Snickers and Twinkees for all sweet tooths willing to pay the price.
“It’s created a little underground economy, with businessmen selling everything from a pack of skittles to an energy drink,” said Jim Nason, principal at Hook Junior High School in Victorville.
I did this in 1977-78.
I attended Dr. Edwin Weeks Elementary in second grade. As you can see, it’s an educational shithole. It was a shithole then and it was brand spanking new. I was bussed there from half-way across the city, and I was one of about 30 white kids. It was the advent of the modern “progressive” school in Syracuse, NY. 35 to a class (although now it’s down to 15), force kids to ride a bus for an hour, all that crap. I lived across the street from a elementary school, to which I went for K and 1st, but then the city decided to become “progressive.” It was entirely stupid. My original school was half white, half black with loads of other people...we lived in a poor-but-mixed neighborhood. The concept behind busing - in part anyway - was to expose white kids to minority culture and minorities to white culture. We were already doing that, but some moronic administrator drew lines on a map, and that meant I had to get up at 6:00 just to get the damn bus at 7:00 so I could make it to school by 8:15.
ANYWAY...candy was not allowed. So every morning I got off the bus, ran full speed to the little store a block away from the school, bought as many Now & Later packs as I could afford, and sold them individually - by which I mean I broke the packs open and would sell you a single Now & Later in your choice of flavor - all day. The first day - the money for which I stole from my mother’s purse - funded the second, and by the end of the first week I was rolling in money. For a second grader, anyway.
I made so much money that I still had a ton of it when my grandparents (the Irish Catholic ones on my father’s side) paid my tuition to Catholic school to get me out of the worst school in the city. St. Vincent de Paul (closed now due to lack of students) was where I spent the next three years, but there wasn’t a store nearby...and I couldn’t keep stock in the house as my mother was famous for tearing my room apart looking for a reason to be pissed at me.
Joke’s on her. I was dealing Star Wars figures and cassette copies of rock and metal albums that the other kids couldn’t get because their parents banned them. Catholic school was awesome. :)
All that was simply to say this; All of this has happened before and all of this will happen again.
Posted by JimK at 02:41 PM on March 26, 2008
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#2 Posted by Rann Aridorn 
on 03/26 at 05:07 PM -
School officials went on to say that the following possibly dangerous items were on the list of upcoming bans, if they had not been banned already:
Running
Playing
Toys
Daydreaming
Looking out windows
Wearing colors
Talking to others
Independent thought
Officials reiterated that they are very dedicated to stamping out any and all joy in children’s lives to better school them into mindless Democrat-voting cubedwellers.
#3 Posted by Christian on 03/27 at 03:35 AM -
Wasn’t there a kid kicked out of junior high for having a bag of skittles on him? The school had to back down and let him back in, but still. A bag of skittles.
Dude, where is our country headed.
#4 Posted by Mazz on 03/27 at 07:15 PM -
I’ve been trying to get Lee to answer me about his post on your Moorewatch site about More money for schools
Frankly, if a kid drinks a Red Bull and his grades are high, then the school bans the drink and his grades drop… All these schools need to worry more about academic achievement than candy intake.
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#1 Posted by Buzzion
on 03/26 at 04:30 PM -
Its funny though how they are branding the kids as “pushers.” Can’t you just see it now. I little on the side of the building some others walking by: “Hey guys you’ve got to try this its awesome, peanuts, chocolate, caramel, and Nougat! Fucking Nougat is awesome. This shit will get you high and buzzing for the next 10 minutes! Here’s a fun size to try for free. You like it you want more you come see me. And man you think this ‘snickers’ is great, just wait tomorrow I’ll have some shit that you’ll actually be able to taste the rainbow.”
Hell if I were a parent I might be tempted to get my kid to do it. Use it a lesson in economics and capitalism.