So, welcome teens to how the goo-goos want to run your life.

Let's see if the younger set of the stupid party can capitalize on this.

I also see lots of money being made from selling out of the trunk of your car right off school property.

They going to ban them bringing it in?

Of course we will.

Ah, the poor Puritans, blamed for the neuroses of every new generation. The Puritans never had to decide anything about soda, but they consumed alcohol at something like three times our rate of consumption and would most likely have thought that worrying about diet v. sugary soda was to worry too much about this world and not enough about the next.

There's plenty of junk science swirling around artificial sweeteners. That's the next line of attack.

Chris;

Presumablt diet sodas are barred as well, if not they will be.

I'm sorry, but being outraged by this agreement is preposterous. Soda vending machines were only introduced in schools two decades ago, so we're not exactly overturning a long-cherished tradition here. It should be up to the individual school boards to ban it, of course, and not professional "advocates" of some cause or other.

b:

Their sort of libertariansism is always preposterous.

"childhood obesity advocates"? They support childhood obesity?

Seriously, I don't care if there are vending machines in schools but this illustrates the foolishness of nannies like OJ. Juices have some vitamins but also about the same calories and sugar as pop (soda for you easterners). So, you ban pop and they drink juice, no gain. So, next juice is banned. Then, they find that makes no impact. And then something else needs to go and so on. It is like King Canute.

Bob:

Meanwhile our third most important social institution for the acculturation of children tains them to drink juice or dairy and not soda. There is no downside, only up.

So all those thin teenagers drinking non-diet sodas will now drink that diet sodas that their heavy parents drink. Sure this will work.

Nope, "agreed to sell only water, juice and low-fat milks"

LOL. Just last night, the 10th grader son of a friend was telling us about his buddy who got a small fridge (maybe he meant a cooler, though) for his birthday. He took it to school, put it in his locker, and is selling pop for $1 a can.

Then told us about another kid who sells candy bars and bubble gum out of his locker.

And all this is *before* the busy-bodies have tried to ban non-diet pop!

fred:

You can always tell an urban legend and the giveaway on that one is the fridge in the locker.

This is more of a suburban/rural problem, where the school campuses tend to be either isolated from business areas or part of housing subdivisions. In the cities, all this ban will do is boost business at the candy stores and small groceries down the block.

"low-fat milks"

Such as skim? Yuck.