[ExCTCitizen]

“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.

We need to close the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, not Wal-Mart and Quick Trip!!

Don’t give them any ideas.

Hey Chuck and Bob Casey....here's your next bill after the Saverin bill gets passed....'the Wal-Mart and QuickTrip 47 minutes School Lunch Closure Bill of 2012.'

[IronJack]

the food police

And who are they? Does someone come around inspecting schools to make sure vending machines are turned off every lunch period? We're actually paying someone for something so stupid?

[x]

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

Who's the Solon or Lycurgus responsible for this legislative masterwork?

[tbw2]

My kids’ school set up a sign on the vending machine that said it cannot be used by students during school hours. Before school is hard to stop, during the day it is used by teachers, after school it is used by everyone. All the school loses is revenue from the sales to students.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

So these federal NUMBSKULLS think that forcing a school to reduce music and art classes is infinitely preferable to a coke machine being left on in a school store???

Nanny State PING!

[massmike]

Meanwhile.....

[unixfox]

The most effective way to tell the feds to eff off is for the parents to yank their kids from the school.

When the students don't show up, the school doesn't receive the money.

[CSM]

The real question is, how did the feds find out? Back in the day, the “tattler” would have received an a$$wooping, however we have become a nation of sheep.