13 year old son in trouble for selling Pepsi at school

pigpen

shelley_crow wrote: »

they were probably taken off him because he's undercutting the cafeteria/vending machine. Towards the end of my high school (a loooong time ago now) they were just installing coke machines into the school hall.

None of the schools here are allowed to sell fizzy caffeine loaded drinks any more, I can't see this back water being forefront of change so it must be almost a national thing.

nzmegs

if you are proud of him for selling pepsi or even for drinking it himself you need to rethink your parenting skills. No child of any age should be drinking that stuff and i trust that my children go to school and don't have access to that sort of poison. the thought of some other child selling my kids soft drinks horrifies me. Well done to the school for not accepting it!

podperson

There's worse things I suppose - he's using some initiative and think you may well have a future businessman there! Am assuming there is something in school policy about selling things and/or they may have a healthy eating scheme going (at a secondary school I used to work at the kids weren't allowed fizzy pop). Hopefully he's not in too much trouble for it - while def point out to him that school isn't really the place for that could you encourage his entrepretarial ideas in other ways? For example if he had a clear out of his old toys/games/clothes then could help him put some on ebay or take him to a car boot?

pimento

My son was barred from the local 7-11 when he cleared their stock of BOGOF Haribo sweets to sell at school for double the price. I don't know what they were moaning about, he paid for them.

shelley_crow

sueeve wrote: »

Schools have removed vending machines selling unhealthy food, and at many schools Pepsi isn't allowed in lunch boxes, so it would be against schol rules to do this. Has it been confiscated because of the trading or because it is Pepsi? Would it have been the same for a bag of oranges?

it goes to show that when something gets banned, it sets the way for the black market :rotfl:

it's good to hear that the junk has been banned though.

OP, have the school said if they will be punishing him?

louise3965

nzmegs wrote: »

if you are proud of him for selling pepsi or even for drinking it himself you need to rethink your parenting skills. No child of any age should be drinking that stuff and i trust that my children go to school and don't have access to that sort of poison. the thought of some other child selling my kids soft drinks horrifies me. Well done to the school for not accepting it!

*imagines your kids necking coke as soon as they are out of your sight* Seriously though, isn't that a tiny bit of an overreaction? Choose your battles wisely would be my advice to you.

Clive_Woody

nzmegs wrote: »

if you are proud of him for selling pepsi or even for drinking it himself you need to rethink your parenting skills. No child of any age should be drinking that stuff and i trust that my children go to school and don't have access to that sort of poison. the thought of some other child selling my kids soft drinks horrifies me. Well done to the school for not accepting it!

:eek: I am selling chill-pills, would you be interested?

shelley_crow

Clive_Woody wrote: »

:eek: I am selling chill-pills, would you be interested?

now THAT made me :rotfl:

lauradawson

From the perspective of a secondary school teacher...

My job would be to confiscate it and hand out an appropriate sanction for selling what is more than likely a 'banned substance' (many schools, including my own, no longer allow fizzy drinks) - there has to be a consequence if he breaks the rule, this is how discipline works. I would imagine thought that a phonecall home, confiscating the stuff, and a detention or possibly at the most a morning in an inclusion room if they have one is as far as it will go, I will be surprised if it gets to the inclusion room. So most likely a rap on the knuckles as a deterrent from doing it in future.

However, the human being within me would quietly be impressed with his entrepreneurial skills and not make too big a deal of it. He's basically being a bit of a Del Boy, and I have quite a soft spot for the mischievious / lovable rogues. Believe me, there are far worse things we have to deal with day to day. I'm sure his form tutor will hold a similar view and is following school policy etc. etc. and if she is professional will have to support the school policy but on the quiet I would imagine she'll feel the same as I do, provided your son does not generally cause bother.

Teenie_D

nzmegs wrote: »

if you are proud of him for selling pepsi or even for drinking it himself you need to rethink your parenting skills. No child of any age should be drinking that stuff and i trust that my children go to school and don't have access to that sort of poison. the thought of some other child selling my kids soft drinks horrifies me. Well done to the school for not accepting it!

:eek::eek: Oh my god what a cheek....some people!!:mad: