13 year old son in trouble for selling Pepsi at school

Tish_P

Find him a Young Entrepreneurs club or something, and tell him not to do anything like that again without ensuring his company accounts and tax records are in order!

nzmegs

Chill pill taken - lovely it was too...still hate fizzy drinks tho!

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Take him out to buy small cartons of pure orange juice and flapjacks to sell on instead? Or spare biros, erasers and protractors? But to stay clear of buying or taking sweets from home to sell on.

It's not quite the same as flogging wraps of heroin at the school gates, after all. One is illegal and one isn't.

But it does put him at risk in the sense that people will know he has x amount of cash on him by the end of the day.

Queen_Of_The_Jungle

iceicebaby wrote: »

He was selling pepsi, not cocaine, get a grip peeps!

He starts with Pepsi and before you know it he is selling Coke!

Fang_3

Christ alive! It's only Pepsi, it's hardly Blue Nun!

meercatsunited

What a clever boy :jshould be a millionaire when hes grown.

ignore the negatives they are usually just jealous that their children didnt think of it first.

If a child wants to drink pepsi/coke they will regardless of where they buy it from

SCFC1961

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!

Very strong opinion - it's a legal substance!

I'd be proud of him for trying to make money - this is a money saving forum after all!

sparrer

nzmegs wrote: »

if you are proud of him for selling pepsi or even for drinking it himself you need to rethink your parenting skills

Wonder why the words pot, kettle and black spring to mind.

One another note my grandson bought bags of donuts, 5 for 60p I believe, and sold them on the way to school for 30p each. Rotten school stopped him even though he never got as far as the school gate with any left, pah! Bleddy good mark-up that, we were (secretly) proud of him . He's left school now but it hasn't encouraged him to stand outside the gates with drugs, he doesn't even smoke himself. Personally I'd stop reading the papers, they're full of scaremongering about sugar, caffeine, and worse, drugs, it often feeds irrational fears to the likes the poster of the above quote and she/he has swallowed them.

POPPYOSCAR

From what I gather this goes on quite a bit now since they took away the vending machines at schools that sell fizzy drinks etc.

He was just unlucky that he got caught.

pigpen

meercatsunited wrote: »

ignore the negatives they are usually just jealous that their children didnt think of it first.

Mine was threatened with expulsion for a similar offense (he was selling PC games from the £1 shop for £1.50) He took his 'business' off school property and all was fine.. then his 'friend' had the idea of selling weed.. made a killing selling to 12 and 13 y/o's.. in year 11 alone.. 5 were expelled, 2 died of drug overdoses after he branched out into heroin, and he is now in prison.. genius! Perfect business skills at 19 (which is all he is now with a conviction for dealing).