Child faces expulsion from school for selling sweets

[The Straight Story]

Child faces expulsion from school for selling sweets


Flavien Roger will go before a disciplinary hearing today morning after he was caught dealing Jawbreakers to pals in his lunchbreak.

The pint-sized entrepreneur pocketed 28 Euros (£23) from sales before over-zealous teachers shut down his illicit enterprise.

He told teachers at his French school that he hoped to buy a flat-screen TV with the profits.

Flavien, who has been described as a ‘model student’, could be permanently removed if he is found guilty of ‘trafic de sucettes’ – or trafficking lollipops.

http://swns.com/child-faces-expulsion-from-school-for-selling-sweets-151607.html#

[cleanhippie]

1. There HAS to be more to this...

[SoCalDem]

3. Schools contract with corporations for their on-site sales

and "personal" sales to other students are USUALLY banned.. Think of this.

what would the school face in litigation when a "bad-kid" sells drug-laced candies or foods brought from home that made someone sick?

This is what the zero-tolerance rules get us..

If your kid spent his/her lunch money on candy sold by another student, you might get a bit miffed too:)..and what if your kids came home feeling ill and then told you they bought "x-y-z-a-b-c" from another kid.. wouldn't you want to know what was IN that "whatever" they bought?..and wouldn't you want the school to make sure that your kid was not just a potential customer for another school child?

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. This is FRANCE, there is more to this story

[uppityperson]

7. Did you notice this is is France?

Headmaster Jean-Pierre Lahutte, who will be conducting the hearing personally, yesterday insisted he was right to take decisive action.

”The problem with this is where is the limit?” he said. ”If today we allow a schoolboy to sell lollipops, tomorrow what will it be, cell phones, tomatoes?”

[SoCalDem]

8. France, UK, US, Lithuania..anywhere

kids go to school to learn..not buy stuff:)

[MadHound]

12. Oh puhleeze, your school years must have been either very dull or very sheltered

In grade school cinnamon toothpicks were virtually a form of currency inside those walls. Not to mention that comic books, baseball cards, and candy were all bought and sold.

Junior high saw much of the same thing, with only some of type of stuff sold changing as we got older.

High school saw the advent of kids selling dope and acid.

There is an immense quantity of "black market" trade in any school. It didn't deter the education of any kids I know. . .well OK, it did deter the education of the acid dealer, but that's only because he sampled his wares during school hours.

[SoCalDem]

13. I never said it did not GO ON.. I merely said that if a student became ill

or if the seller got CAUGHT, they might get in trouble.. and laid out the reason why these things are frowned upon:)

or that a parent might have an issue of their kids got sick from something they bought at school..

Puhleeeze, yourself:P

[Hannah Bell]

2. this is how warren buffett & john paulson got started -- if you believe their bios.

buying (e.g.) a bag of suckers & selling them individually at a marked-up price to their schoolmates.

[Codeine]

4. LOL! We did this every day in junior high.

My friend Chris and I would stop at 7-11 (conveniently located across the street from school, no less) and spend our lunch money on the cheapest candies they had - Now & Laters, Lemonheads, Charms Pops, etc. - and resell them at double the price or more between opening bell and lunch. We always had lunch money that way, and we had pocket money for after school.

Then Mom found out we qualified for free lunch, which dried up my outside capital. I had to plow a portion of my profits back into operations, but business kept going just like before. Eventually the school got the owner of the 7-11 to ban kids coming in for an hour before and an hour after school, so we stopped bothering. Still had a great thing going for about a year and a half.

[Dappleganger]

5. Our oldest daughter used to sell candy in middle school all the time.

She would buy the big box of Costco individual candy bars and sell them out of her backpack for a fair price, just enough to pay for her pet supplies each month. Never got into trouble for it, either.

[SoCalDem]

9. I'm sure this goes on everywhere, but once they get ratted-out, it's over.

My son got in trouble for TUTORING..why? because his "students" gave him a six pack of Mountain Dew:)

From then on, he tutored at our house..:)

Kids learned more calculus from him, than from the teacher:rofl:

[Dappleganger]

10. Wow, good for him...

mine would do anything for a mtn. dew, lol! Is he still available? j/k

[Odin2005]

11. The stupid, it BURNS!!!

[Bennyboy]

14. This happened to ME...1965! and again in 67...

Once in grade school and thena gain in Jr High. Went to the store, made some cahs and everyone got pissy about it. Got suspended (and n them days that was bad bad bad) I was making bank too.