[shuckmaster]

Has there ever been a time when chewing gum or trading candy was allowed in school? I recall kids getting sent to the principles office back in the ‘50s and early ‘60s.

[Kirkwood]

“Has there ever been a time when chewing gum or trading candy was allowed in school? I recall kids getting sent to the principles office back in the ‘50s and early ‘60s.”

You never heard of candy sales in schools for raising money for class trips, etc.? We used to have those once or twice a year.

[Tired of Taxes]

Candy and junkfood has been a mainstay at every school I've ever known. The health food craze at schools is a recent phenomenon around here. I'm all for healthy, natural foods, and I think schools shouldn't sell junkfood to kids. But this school is taking things to the extreme. There's no mention that he ate it in class. He's being punished for buying it from another kid at school.

Here's my favorite line in the story:

Aside from the nutrition issue, Sullivan-DeCarlo said, students create security problems when they carry money.

Oh, no, we can't have the kids carrying money now, can we? LOL. This story is so much fun. :-)

[ktscarlett66]

When I was in high school (graduated 1984), the school store sold gum and candy. It was open before classes, during break and lunches, sold things like notebooks, school bookcovers, pens and pencils, school banners & Tshirts. And they had a counter where you could get Bubblicious, Lifesavers and a few other goodies. It was run by the Student Government Assc.

Some of the groups in school sold candy bars, they were $1 but twice the size of a regular candy bar that sold for .50. I remember the Business Club, Band and FHA selling them openly. Both situations were school sanctioned.