Education

Utah School Fined $15,000 for Accidentally Selling Soda During Lunch

A Utah high school is learning the hard way that the government is serious about nudging students away from food it doesn’t want them to consume. Davis High School in the Salt Lake City area is having to fork over a whopping $15,000 in fines to the Feds because it accidentally sold soda through a vending machine during lunch.

Federal law requires the school to turn off its soda machines during the lunch period, which is 47 minutes a day. And Davis High school did turn off the machines in the lunch room. However, the school didn‘t realize that there was another machine in the school bookstore that wasn’t being turned off. And when the food police realized it, the school was hit with a $0.75 fine per student for the duration of the offense.

Now the school is going to have to cut money to fine arts programs to make up the cost.

KTVX-TV has the report:

But here’s where things really get nutty, so to speak. Davis High School Principal Dee Burton said that the law is disingenuous. For example, while students can’t buy soda, they can buy sugar-loaded sports drinks and even Snickers bars because they contain, you guessed it, nuts. In addition, students can buy soda earlier in the day before the machines get turned off and drink it during lunch.

And simple economics is at play, too. The ban isn’t forcing students to stop drinking or eating the sugar-laced food and drink. It’s just driving them to places where they can get it.

“The misconception is if we don’t let kids buy candy and pop, we drive them to the cafeteria, it doesn’t drive them to the cafeteria it drives them off campus,” Burton told KUTV.

One commenter on the KUTV website picked up on that.

“The principal is right, the kids will leave campus. What are you going to do? Close Walmart and Quick Trip for 47 minutes every day?” the commenter wrote.

Don’t give them any ideas.

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  • sooner12
    Posted on May 17, 2012 at 9:11am

    My answer is simple: civil disobedience. Don’t pay the fine. Get a lawyer to represent Davis HS pro bono. Maybe when such resistence crops up everywhere the gov‘t can’t prosecute them all.

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    • JRook
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 9:39am

      Interesting to note that Utah is considered to be the most Republican and is in the top 10 conservative state in the country. So much for Democrats being the cause of big government and government interference.

       
    • houtec
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 9:55am

      Jrook, Please read story again and then read it one more time.

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    • jshuster
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 10:02am

      JRCOOK, Let me help you, took for the words “Federal” and “ Law”

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    • Wolf
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 10:03am

      “…Now the school is going to have to cut money to fine arts programs to make up the cost…”
      RIght on, Sooner. Newsflash for the school: Grow a pair of balls and don‘t cut anything and don’t pay the extortionist.

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    • rufuscharles
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 10:03am

      JROOK, did you read the article? It was the FEDS that fined them, not the state. The Feds, are, you see, a federal government entity, run by, guess who, the federal government, which is currently the obama administration, and his nazi food and car and energy and …………….czars. The State of Utah had nothing to do with it.

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    • Common.Cents
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 10:04am

      @Jrook

      You do realize this is FEDERAL correct?

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    • Silver Lining
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 10:08am

      “Davis High School in the Salt Lake City area is having to fork over a whopping $15,000 in fines to the Feds because it accidentally sold soda through a vending machine during lunch.

      Federal law requires the school to turn off its soda machines during the lunch period, which is 47 minutes a day.”

      JRook – what part of “Feds” and “Federal law” did you not understand?

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    • RickC58
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 10:15am

      @jrook Its a FEDERAL law, what does it have to do with Utah

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    • selloursouls
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 10:28am

      JRook, maybe you should work on your reading comprehension skills. Your rush to bad mouth conservatives showed how stupid you are. I bet you are wishing you could delete your post. Maybe next time you won’t prove yourself a fool.

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    • IDONTTHINKSO
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 10:37am

      I think JROOK is a little eager to win a liberal point and his eyes don’t focus well to the truth!

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    • FatManChew
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 11:11am

      Some kid will wise up and pack some sodas in his car or locker and sell them to freshmen and sophomores during that 47 minutes.

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    • DonnaA
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 11:12am

      I agree with you. its unconstitutional what this “gov” is trying to do.

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    • Amica
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 11:21am

      fatmanchew: Someone probably will, there’s an entrepreneurial spirit in Utah. Then that enterprising youth will get expelled as a drug dealer.

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    • muddpuddle
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 11:30am

      BBreak thier legs, then they can’t go to Walmart. Better yet, stitch some big yellow stars on thier clothes so they can’t buy anything anywhere. And take thier coins away so they can’t use vending machines. And of course, don’t let em play dodge ball.

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    • Chuck Stein
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 11:36am

      A lot of us are piling on Jrook for his oversight. It might not just be liberal prejudice that influenced him, though. In a sane world, the federal government would have NOTHING to do with soda machines in high schools. The assumption that things will be sane can effect a bias as much as a political agenda.

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    • Marci
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 12:15pm

      This is nanny state madness. And fining the school means the taxpayer picks up the fine and the school (as in this instance) has to cut funding for programs to deal with their Orwellian slap on the wrist. When I was in school, we had a vending machine, but no sodas were sold, only fruit punch and lemonade, BOTH with more calories and sugar than the soda!

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    • Freedom.Fighter
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 12:40pm

      FEDS … DEMS … REPUBS … they’re all the same.

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    • JackmeoffKennedy
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 1:24pm

      J Rook – have you been drinking soda again?

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 1:28pm

      And just who was there to witness this? Does the Federal Gov have a nutrition cop in every school?

      If so, what Bill authorized the funding for them? Do they have their own office in every school? Do they stay at schools all day long or just show up for lunch? How much are they paid? Just too many questions on this one. : (

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    • Carseller4
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 1:32pm

      Pay the fine. Then send a letter to every parent detailing exactly what programs are going to be cut for their children. Send the same letter to every newspaper in the state.

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 1:34pm

      Does the White House serve sodas during lunch?

      How about all those Federal buildings in Wash, DC?

      What about all the tourist places in Wash, DC., where school’s send students on field trips?

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    • turkey13
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 1:41pm

      The president can solve this problem with the stroke of his executive pen. He should make a new law that say schools taking Federal dollars shall trash all vending machines ASAP. The kids will have to buy the balanced meals and drink water from the water fountains only. This will also stop all the graft and payoffs that Principals get to stock certain drinks and junk food.

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    • EliotD
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 1:49pm

      Jrook, this isn’t a state regulation, this is a federal regulation, therefore the Democrats’ increasingly draconian regulations ARE at fault. Read the article before you comment.

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    • duketurner
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 1:57pm

      I will donate to the defense fund!

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    • drphil69
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 2:23pm

      JRook makes our point, no? Do you think if a school in CA or NY did this they would be fined??

      No, the FED, under BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, only attacks RED states and non-union companies.

      BE PREPARED… and remember, PLEASE DON’T FEED THE LIBS, THEY MULTIPLY LIKE RABBITS!

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    • timarina
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 2:26pm

      Correct. You’re answer is simple. Simple answers from simple minds.

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    • johnjamison
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 2:32pm

      How can the Democratic voters not see the facsism coming down the road by supporting the big government democrats. It is plain view

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    • Dr Vel
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 2:35pm

      I wonder who informed the Feds, the food police? Do they keep yet another Swat squad in every school as yet unpublicized?

      Swat Food Force, Don’t leave home without it.

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    • jhpackard
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 2:47pm

      JROOK, you ignorant boob! This was a Federal government regulation imposed by a Democrat administration.

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    • hillplus
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 2:52pm

      I like the civil disobedience idea…. don’t pay the fine. Get a lawyer to defend pro bono. It is time to fight back!!

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    • MAMMY_NUNN
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 3:05pm

      I thought they took the Coke out of Coke which would have given them the authourity to regulate.

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    • ShopRat95
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 3:13pm

      @Turkey13 Yeah, cuz we all know how well banning alcohol worked when Prohibition was the law of the land.

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    • budzy1911
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 4:21pm

      They are just going to keep doing this to people that don’t agree with them to make a point. They know they will never win Utah so they will hammer them.

      If the Republican party was smart – which they are not – they would use this for a campaign commercial. Someone at the RNC will deem it hurtfull to the administration and nix it.

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    • wdittgasn
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 4:40pm

      If the kids want yo buy a soda let them buy a soda, this is ridiculous….. I would not pay the fine…..This administration needs to be stopped or we are doomed by the time the sleepy Americans wake up it will be too late.

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    • Emerson Biggins
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 5:49pm

      Jrook, it’s the FEDS levying the fine.

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    • Rpfoster
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 6:09pm

      JROOK. It was a Federal Law, not state. It helps if you READ the article and COMPREHEND it. Maybe you should have a remedial reading course. Neither the Federal or State Government should be allowed to tell you what you can eat or drink. This Country was founded on Freedom and Liberty. Not on an All Powerful Government

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    • ProgressivesArePoison
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 6:29pm

      JROOK, that‘s ’FEDS’, DUMBAZZ. It‘s no wonder you’re a liberal. How does it feel getting all this attention for being so stupid? THE GOVERNMENT HAS NO RIGHT TELLING SCHOOLS WHAT FOOD TO SERVE. WTF IS THIS, NAZI GERMANY? SOMEONE SAID IT BEST HERE THAT WE SHOULD START TO STAND UP TO THE GOV AND TAKE IT TO THEM OR ELSE THIS WILL NOT END UP WELL FOR US, OR OUR CHILDREN. EFF THE GOV’T, EFF LIBERALS, NAZI THUGS MASQUERADING AS ‘DEMOCRATS’. F-U, ALL OF YOU -FU.

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    • Tallaron
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 6:48pm

      Take a large cooler to school with cold sodas and sell them to your friends at cost. Our government is nuts and it’s ok to say that cause it has nuts in it.

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    • Annie66
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 7:58pm

      Good idea. The federal government does not have any authority to dictate food and drink. Telling them to go to he** isn’t a bad idea, either. This administration does not bother following the law, why should anyone else?

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    • pogojoe
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 8:32pm

      AMEM ,, sounds like a good plan to me ,,,,,,,,,,,,,

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    • Stoic one
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 8:34pm

      HA HA HA!
      the FEDERAL government fining the local government !

      HA HA HA!

      and yes, if this is a public school; it is part of the local government,

      Jrook – brush up on your critical reading skills; you will need them for ANY contract that you will sign in the future. Also you might appear a little more intelligent here on the screen.

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    • dwalk
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 8:56pm

      JR Rook,
      You are the perfect Liberal Democrat who just falls for the talking points and cannot read an article with any intelligence.
      Read the article again and you will find out it is “The Federal Government” who is slapping the school with the monetary fine and it is “The Federal Government” who established the asinine laws in the first place.
      Now, go back and study your talking points again, please?

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    • ilkrm
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 9:44pm

      JROOK, Please read this quote from the article: “…whopping $15,000 in fines to the Feds…” I believe the Federal Govt. has instituted these ruled within the past 3 years.

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    • friedclouds
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 10:05pm

      Yes, he will, without a doubt.

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    • JustJP
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 10:19pm

      jrook, I will bet your welfare check that the food police voted for owebama.

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    • MAMMY_NUNN
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 10:55pm

      Don’t be surprised when they come knockin on your door Granholmn did this to Michigan beat every bush in the state for that tax dollar she could find. It will even come down to get a supeona to accounts and store records.

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    • subic
      Posted on May 18, 2012 at 12:56am

      JCROOK has troll duty today

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    • SekndAmendment
      Posted on May 18, 2012 at 3:05am

      This is the dumbest thing I’ve heard of. We should be able to fine the Feds $0.75 a day per federal employee for every day the budget goes unbalanced.

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    • johnnylingo
      Posted on May 18, 2012 at 9:14am

      Charter schools,Charter Schools,CHARTER SCHOOLS!!!!Throw the OBUMMERS Hipie rejects out of this country. Fire all the ZARS. Socialism,Communism, the Welfare state MUST GO.

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    • Teeshot
      Posted on May 18, 2012 at 9:18am

      @JROOK “So much for Democrats being the cause of big government and government interference.” It‘s not the State government fining the school it’s the Federal Government harassing the school. Gee who’s in control, The Democrat Non American Obama, his I‘ll break all the law’s I want, i.e. Lie to Congress, Sell guns to the Drug Lords of Mexico, Democrat Eric Holder. What’s that about the Republicans?

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    • MnNiceUSAFret
      Posted on May 18, 2012 at 10:14am

      Re: fatmanchew @ 11:11 a.m.

      Exactly. This is called Capitalism and the free market system and the “law of supply and demand.” Just like states that prohibit fireworks whereas adjoining states that don’t. A person drives across the border, buys several hundred dollars of fireworks, then drives back home and sells those fireworks at a an extreme markup. If there’s a demand, there’s practically no limit to what one will pay for a given product. Apparently this “Federal” gov‘t of ours just don’t get it that they are actually causing more problems and encouraging price-gouging for illicit items just like some states do that outlaw fireworks while an adjoining state doesn’t.

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    • bcsblues
      Posted on May 18, 2012 at 10:51am

      I agree with you 100% It’s time to start challenging this bunch of maniacs!

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    • Beerman309
      Posted on May 18, 2012 at 11:01am

      JROOK. You are a complete dumbass. Do you know FED means? Look it up and then question your own remark until you figure how stupid it is. Sometimes I wonder if there should be a test to allow people to vote. It’s dipshits like JROOK that gave us Obammy and Gaffe Biden.

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    • Dimwit Dem
      Posted on May 18, 2012 at 1:13pm

      Unfortunately, the government would then withhold any federal money going to that school. That money can be in the hundreds of thousands. Perhaps the community would get behind the school and supply the money that the school would have gotten from the federal government.

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    • 31337
      Posted on May 18, 2012 at 1:17pm

      wow. Jrook I’m not sure where you think this is the cause of Big government when its a result of the programs that were put into place. The Federal Government has no business anywhere telling people when they can turn on soda machines and when they are to be turned off. Its up to the state and locality in the state to decide what is best for its population. If you are not worried or somewhat scared of what is happening here, you don’t fully understand what is going on. YOUR FREEDOM IS BEING TAKEN AWAY FROM YOU. If you agree with the federal government on this, you should ask yourself “Self? When did I unlock retarded?”

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    • teresa2010
      Posted on May 18, 2012 at 2:28pm

      You must a blithering democrat idiot..FEDERAL COV’T IS YOUR STUPID HERO ODUMO NOT UTAH….DUHD DUH DDUHHH DUH!!

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    • Mike Austin
      Posted on May 18, 2012 at 3:44pm

      Mine thoughts exactly. Have the State tell the feds to kiss-off.

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    • born2bfree
      Posted on May 18, 2012 at 8:17pm

      Yes the State is for the most part ‘Conserative’, but it ia also a very religious State, where it‘s people ’turn the other cheek’ and tend to not stick up for their rights, allowing the minority to walk all over the majority. Look at the ‘gay right’ people – it consists of only 6 percent of USA’s population, and yet the 6 percent is dictating the out come of the 94 percent of people who are not gay. One anti-christ who is offended because a cross displayed, controls an entire city by sueing the comunity of 50,000 citizens. So bull s–t to your “democrate’ comment.

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  • mom4times
    Posted on May 17, 2012 at 9:08am

    here’s an idea……TAKE THE STUPID VENDING MACHINES OUT OF THE SCHOOLS….there….problem solved…..never heard of such stupidity when i was in school

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    • Listen_then_think
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 9:24am

      Uhmmm, how about not having the food police /government forcing you to eat specific food? You are the type of idiot who allows the SS and gestapo to come in, kill everyone you don’t like and force yo uinto a camp because it is “for your own good”, and you accept it, and embrace it. Please MOM change your thinking to not include, “let the government tell me what I can and can’t do every minute of every day.” You are the liberal idiotic problem with America today, please leave my country alone, better yet, please leave my country.

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    • Listen_then_think
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 9:31am

      Stupidity? you mean from yourself and your stupid solution right? WHY take the vending machines out? Here is a better solution to your stupidity, choose free will over government control. Get rid of the food police. Get rid of legislators who try to make these assinine rules. Go to the store and buy some common sense. Stupid nazi. Your solution is to comply with the government? I am glad I am not your neighbor, you are the type that would turn in all your neighbors to the SS and tell where people were hiding during the holocaust. Traitor.

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    • sandy21957
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 9:56am

      Just like it only takes having one grumpy curmudgeon to affect a neighborhood, I assure you there are rabid liberals woven through the fabric that is Conservative Utah. They love to “stir the pot” any chance they can get. So, I bet there was some loon of a teacher that just wanted to cause problems.

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    • badswing
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 10:30am

      sorry to be redundant but IT IS THE SHEEP LIKE YOU THAT ARE BRINGING OUR COUNTRY DOWN. get the government out of our lives. with ur reasoning what would be next? books?

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    • Amica
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 11:18am

      Hm…because something wasn’t there when you were in school, it’s stupidity. No idea how old you are, so I’ll go with my own experience.
      Copiers are stupidity…I have wonderful memories of being chosen to run the hand cranked mimeograph machine. I miss carbon paper too!
      Computers…who needs them, we learned just fine with books.
      TVs…film strips were so much more, I don’t know, riveting.

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  • Docrow
    Posted on May 17, 2012 at 9:08am

    Lowering “passing grades” so students feel better about themselves – GOOD

    Selling soda from a vending machine during school lunch time – BAD

    Priorities!!!

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    • 31337
      Posted on May 18, 2012 at 1:22pm

      its a good thing this is a problem because all the more serious problems have been solved so the Feds can now focus on this one.

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  • twin.minerva
    Posted on May 17, 2012 at 9:05am

    It wouldn’t be the the first time that the Federal Govt has come to Utah and done what ever the heck it pleased. Escelante Grand Stair Case?anyone?? How about stoping Shale Oil? I blame the Governer and Attorney Gen. of Utah. Herbert caved and took the Fedral money that gave them the clout to come in and do these things. Which means I blame the weird, “conservative” big government repubs in Utah seriously what is wrong with them… Thanks for more Herbert –NOT!

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  • GoodCook
    Posted on May 17, 2012 at 9:03am

    Let me see. The local tax payers fund the schools through overbearing property taxes to fund excessive UNION teachers saleries. The Feds then come in and fine the schools an over bearing amount which has to be taken from property tax payers taxes to pay the Feds. In turn the school puts up another levy for more funding because they have run out of money because they were fined by the Feds for not turning off a pop machine that was not accessible to students during lunch anyway because it was in a bookstore and not the cafeteria. Sounds to me like the inspector was the product fo a Unionized public school education because they are dump as a box of rocks. IF this jack booted Government (Of, and by Moochelle) food policeman was doing his job a simple warning should be enough at this time. BUT NO! They acted as a complete moron. Don’t pay it and make them take you to court. One more freedom will be lost to the all encompassing big gulp of the Federal Government. and the Goodyear blimp in the White House, if you don’t. And to think she called Oprah fat and didn‘t want her near the White House because it wouldn’t look good., such hypocrisy.

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    • Ajohn
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 4:50pm

      Goodcook: Then to put the icing (sugar) on the cake; my Granddaughters in grade school, come around and sell us unbaked “sugar” cookies as a fund raiser for supplies, because the schools budgets are busted. Here is Utah we have superintendents making high six figures and I buy “sugar” cookies so my grandchildren can have paper and pencils? Education has nothing to do with children anymore, it is all about the adults…

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    • friedclouds
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 9:59pm

      And now you have 2 gov’t entities, the school v the Feds in court….and who will pay the court costs for BOTH sides? The taxpayer! Lord, I don’t want to live on this planet anymore!

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    • Nicholai
      Posted on May 18, 2012 at 9:04am

      @ AJohn – Didn’t you know that bake sales are bad also and being banned? Can’t have people buying sugar cookies, oh my, that’s as bad as soda.

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    • tnmccoy
      Posted on May 18, 2012 at 1:53pm

      Besides, Nicholai, they don’t have a license to sell cookies—baked or unbaked. So, the police/feds should follow them and nab the kids red-handed.

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  • pinnybogg
    Posted on May 17, 2012 at 8:59am

    she will get me to “do as I say” over my dead body. Am 69 and do not need her or anyone else telling me what I can and cannot eat. Damn she is a busybody..as TV shows her and the man eating icecream, pies, cakes and anything else they dang well want

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    • Dimwit Dem
      Posted on May 18, 2012 at 1:16pm

      Ironically, MIchelle eats the very food she is trying to ban from schools. That also makes her a hypocrite.

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  • lynnissmart
    Posted on May 17, 2012 at 8:58am

    Take it to the Supreme Court……!

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  • KangarooJack
    Posted on May 17, 2012 at 8:58am

    Food. One of the basics for human survival. Keep your eyes on our food/shelter/opportunities for employment and most definitely our children. The wolf is hiding in grandma‘s nightgown and it’s not content to sit in the bed and wait for the next victim-it‘s out in the town delegating it’s next meal.

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    • Cerealface
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 9:09am

      They could learn to drink water, but not at the expense of the children’s activities that are now canceled because the government hates soda pop.

      Stupid law.

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    • MAMMY_NUNN
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 3:01pm

      If there is no law create one, If there is no tax create one I’ve seen it before
      Tanning tax is a example.

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  • hoopsgulch
    Posted on May 17, 2012 at 8:52am

    Don’t know people send their kids to govt schools. Our kids eat whatever they want at school.

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  • progressiveslayer
    Posted on May 17, 2012 at 8:51am

    We have thousands and thousands of regulations from the feds dictating every activity of our lives,and the idiots in congress are paid to create more laws and regulations to control us,it’s maddening and disgusting.I wouldn‘t be surprised if in the not to distant future we’ll be required to have on display in our government approved ‘living space’ a picture of the tyrant currently ruling us serfs.

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  • HKS
    Posted on May 17, 2012 at 8:50am

    Really, The establishment need to grow up, like the kids. Only a fool would fine themselves.

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  • dadsrootbeer
    Posted on May 17, 2012 at 8:49am

    Just keep telling yourselves that the current adminstration aren’t socialists.

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  • Watcher1952
    Posted on May 17, 2012 at 8:43am

    And they wonder why the school system is not up to snuff…..get the government out of our school system….let the teachers have control of the classrooms…..go back to the basics of reading, writing and Mathmatics……like the article says…money will now be taken from the fine arts program to pay the goverment…… Yea for the governments wisdom….. Vote this bunch out in November

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  • kangaroo
    Posted on May 17, 2012 at 8:39am

    Just put a poster of moochells fat azz on the vending machines problem solved bwaaah

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  • BlackCrow
    Posted on May 17, 2012 at 8:38am

    Will somebody PLEASE show me in the constitution what gives the federal government the authority to tell local schools what they can and cannot sell?

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    • Dinkiecb
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 9:10am

      we are your government and we’ll tell you what we want you to do any time we want

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    • Losingbattle
      Posted on May 18, 2012 at 3:30am

      Blackcrow is right. At what point in time did the Federal Government get the authority to dictate what is sold in a state school? The schools must not teach about US History and the Constitution anymore either because there are many ignorant sheep out there now.

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    • waynellewis
      Posted on May 18, 2012 at 10:34am

      When they took a dime of federal money, they became slaves to all federal regulations. The federal government on average only contributes 10.8% for education with the rest from the state. But that 10.8% obligates the schools to follow all federal regulations.

      It was the same way with the 55 MPH national speed limit. The feds did not have the power to make it so but withheld federal highway construction money from any state that did not comply.

      I would like to see one state refuse federal education funds and burn the regulations during a football pep rally. Then watch how education improves.

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  • 13th Imam
    Posted on May 17, 2012 at 8:37am

    As “The School” has no way to print money, just Who is going to pay the 15 grand? The Gubbermint looking to steal money from the Actual Taxpayers. The money they couldn’t get the first time by confiscatory taxation. Go Figure

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    • justangry
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 11:30am

      Yup, they stole money from the tax payers. There really isn’t anything more to this story.

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  • momrules
    Posted on May 17, 2012 at 8:36am

    This is no longer a nudge, this is pushing and every dime of that fine comes out of the tax payers pockets.
    Don’t pay it, keep the soda machine on, tell the Fed food and drink police to go to hell.

    I am disgusted with the whole lot of them from Michelle down to the lowest cog in the government wheel.

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  • AJAYW
    Posted on May 17, 2012 at 8:31am

    Kids shouldn’t be eating school lunches anyway- its mostly garbage- pack what you want your kid to eat.

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    • kangaroo
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 8:40am

      good idea but they will take it from you and call your mum unfit

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  • circleDwagons
    Posted on May 17, 2012 at 8:30am

    Trust Government, Romney does
    The Government Never makes mistakes
    Romney is a very honorable man and would Never allow abuse
    Have a good day, pay your taxes and don’t break any govnment rule

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  • EP46
    Posted on May 17, 2012 at 8:30am

    If they pay the fine….the they are so stupid they need to close the school.

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 8:48am

      With this administration, should the school refuse to pay the fine I can picture and Elian Gonzalez, or even an escalation to a Waco style raid with agents armed with MP5s or today MP7s making an early morning raid. Hey, if the state of Mass does it to an ice cream parlor…

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  • biohazard23
    Posted on May 17, 2012 at 8:29am

    Uh oh, someone must be getting something they enjoy. Can’t have any of that nonsense going on……

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  • kickagrandma
    Posted on May 17, 2012 at 8:27am

    EXCUSE ME??????

    This is still the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, not the private property of moochelleon obamamamita.
    Hear this, you commie b******s: WE WILL SERVE WHAT WE DAMN WELL PLEASE. Don’t like it? TOUGH! Get out of our country now!

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    • johnjamison
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 8:47am

      It‘s a UTAH School those it’s a state school and not a federal school. Perhaps it’s time for the state to take back what was never Constitutional given the right to control the educational system.

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  • IAMMADDOG
    Posted on May 17, 2012 at 8:25am

    Ok I for one have had enough of this crap. Time to clean house.

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    • johnjamison
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 8:49am

      Time to remove all agencys who create laws that are called regulations.

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    • twin.minerva
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 9:11am

      We need to start the cleaning locally. Our governers, our state legislators. If Utah didn‘t have Herbert who caved and took the money from the Feds in the first damn place then they wouldn’t be able to make these demands. We need to hold our local government to a higher standard, and say NO! to the Fed encroachment.

      ~ I Stand with DAN!~ Retire Hatch.

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    • IAMMADDOG
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 9:14am

      Absolutely. Every last one of them.

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  • MAULEMALL
    Posted on May 17, 2012 at 8:25am

    Well moosechelle is trying her best to turn everyones shape to hers…Round..

    Have we ever had a more unappealing first lady??

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  • progressiveslayer
    Posted on May 17, 2012 at 8:24am

    Clearly what’s needed is more laws to end this horrific crime wave of selling soda in school,yes more laws that’s the answer.

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    • circleDwagons
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 8:32am

      more laws and more law enforcers

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 8:36am

      The school apparently ticked off Moochelle.

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    • Hrothgar
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 10:11am

      They have a law similar to this in Nevada. No school shall sell soda, so the schools have had to change out all the contents of soda machines with juice, gatorade and water. However, this works at elementary and junior high schools, this is pretty ineffective for “stopping kids from getting soda” at the high school level since they can either bring it from home, or since lunch hours at a majority of schools are open campus, you just go to 7-11 and stock up on Monsters or something.
      The sales of food on campus should be set by the districts and schools not the skidmarks sitting in DC, touting their education philosophies of standardized tests..

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    • tnmccoy
      Posted on May 18, 2012 at 1:56pm

      And make sure the kids all get records.

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