Question about non-US schools

[BlackStar42]

Most schools here in the UK stopped selling fizzy drinks and candy bars a few years ago. A TV show called "School Dinners" starring a celebrity chef named Jamie Oliver took an in-depth look into what children eat at school and the facts were quite shocking and caused a bit of an uproar in British media.

I work at a secondary school (high school in the US?) and thanks to that celebrity chef I can no longer buy cans of coke or chocolate bars at work :-( Certainly there are none sold by students (it's actually against the rules for them to bring outside food in to school anyway), even illicitly, at least as far as I'm aware.

hahahahaa, oh you crazy Brits and your nonsensical over-regulations.

I have images of like 8 year old kids wearing over coats chocked full of candy bars, selling them on the play grounds to willing buyers. Pretty soon gangs start to form and they fight over territory to sell on the playground. The gang's are separated into categories such as Mars, Hershey's, and Nestle, rather than race or socio demographics, hahahah.

One of my teachers set up a sting operation to try and catch a kid who had done something scarily similar to that. He'd bullied some smaller kids into selling chocolate for him so he wouldn't get caught- my teacher convinced one of them to help, and next time the bully tried to make him do it, my teacher jumped out of the bush he was hiding in and nabbed him. Wish I'd been there to see it.

 

[Kinguendo]

Britain and nope, we had recycling initiatives not junk food peddling. They had stuff like bringing in old mobile phones and all kinds of good stuff.

 

[Kinguendo]

Most schools here in the UK stopped selling fizzy drinks and candy bars a few years ago. A TV show called "School Dinners" starring a celebrity chef named Jamie Oliver took an in-depth look into what children eat at school and the facts were quite shocking and caused a bit of an uproar in British media.

I work at a secondary school (high school in the US?) and thanks to that celebrity chef I can no longer buy cans of coke or chocolate bars at work :-( Certainly there are none sold by students (it's actually against the rules for them to bring outside food in to school anyway), even illicitly, at least as far as I'm aware.

hahahahaa, oh you crazy Brits and your nonsensical over-regulations.

I have images of like 8 year old kids wearing over coats chocked full of candy bars, selling them on the play grounds to willing buyers. Pretty soon gangs start to form and they fight over territory to sell on the playground. The gang's are separated into categories such as Mars, Hershey's, and Nestle, rather than race or socio demographics, hahahah.

Oh you crazy Brits and your... doing something about child obesity before it because an epidemic like "somewhere" to the West of Britain.

And "rather than race or socio demographics"? Yeah, I was at school as they stopped selling junk food and we werent split up into "race" before that... Are you sure you arent getting school confused with America prisons from films?

Also, whats Hersheys?

 

[Aedes]

Not here in Brazil as far as I know.
And thank God it never happened. I would freak out if I had to sell things to strangers.

I though it was mostly a US thing as it's somewhat fairly common on old tv shows and movies.

 

[lionsprey]

Sweden here and we sold smoked fish on one ocasion and i think we sold some kind of sausage one other time
cant remember if we got prizez but it was for raising money for school trip though.

 

[Saregon]

We did in Sweden but there weren't any prices and we just sold these really large boxes of cookies that no one bought, they were just too big and too expensive.

Same here in Norway, and as far as I know they still do (been a while since I was in school). A lot of the time my family would buy a bunch of them from me, 'cause they're fantastic.

One of my teachers set up a sting operation to try and catch a kid who had done something scarily similar to that. He'd bullied some smaller kids into selling chocolate for him so he wouldn't get caught- my teacher convinced one of them to help, and next time the bully tried to make him do it, my teacher jumped out of the bush he was hiding in and nabbed him. Wish I'd been there to see it.

That really sounds like the plot to one of those Vin Diesel movies.

 

[Iwata]

Nope, never had to do anything of the sort.

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

Most of the time they're done by individual students for fundraising something or other. Never really fully endorsed by the school.

 

[Dwarfman]

Snip

Yes. We used to sell chocolate bars to raise money for school camps, travel expenses and equipment for sports and music teams and the like. Use to make a fair whack of money out of it too as I recall.

 

[sextus the crazy]

Another Canadian here. From grades 4-6 my school had us sell chocolate bars too. Only the top 3 or so sellers got prizes though.

EDIT: Specifically, we sold these

...every year. Which probably explains why I can't stand them today.

If there's one thing I like about studying in London, it's the delicious candy you Europeans have.

 

[AnarchistFish]

Where I went to school(UK) around when I started secondary they banned all sweets and overly unhealthy foods. This created prohibition like groups which would be able to get the most sweets, chips, crisps etc. through the fences. I knew one guy who was able to make £30 a day when he brought the sweets wholesale

^^^Exactly the same.
He'd buy the sweets at Tesco in the morning and then sell them to all the year 7-9s over the day and make a shedload out of it. Eventually they school stopped him doing it anymore.

But our school even removed vending machines a few years back. And the food seems to be pretty strictly managed.

Seems to be a UK obsession.

 

[rob_simple]

Never had anything arranged by the school in the UK, but I do remember a few of my friends used to go to this old woman's house and she'd make things like tablet and macaroon then give it to them to sell to us.

I always thought it was kinda weird but they made a decent bit of money doing it.

 

[MetalMagpie]

I'm from the UK. And I've never heard of any school doing this.

Sounds quite fun though.

 

[snappydog]

I'm from England, we would sell cakes and stuff but never anything too unhealthy thanks to the work of the aforementioned Mr Jamie Oliver.

 

[SidheKnight]

We never did something like this in my school, nor in any school I know (Argentina)

 

[Woodsey]

UK, and no. People used to do fundraisers and stuff but it was never something anyone ever had to do, as far as I remember.

Seems to be a UK obsession.

Which is fair enough, seeing as we're the fattest fucks in Europe.

 

[370999]

Ireland.

Nope. We did have cake bake sales once or twice.

In Secondary school, I did transition year (a year which you don't really do any academic things) and we were divided up into companies which chose to sell candy at certain events to make money.

 

[Tiger Sora]

Canadian. Yeh here in Southern Ontario we sold the chocolate. And it was those aweful caramel bars. Bleck!

 

[Nonomori]

Not here in Brazil as far as I know.
And thank God it never happened. I would freak out if I had to sell things to strangers.

I though it was mostly a US thing as it's somewhat fairly common on old tv shows and movies.

You stole my answer. Yeah, that doesn't happen around here.

 

[Lieju]

Finland.

In elementary school we had a drawing competition, the victors would get their picture made for Christmas cards that were sold, mainly to parents.