Date of publication: 07 Apr 2022 • 12 Hours Ago • 2 Minutes Reading • 45 Comments Frito-Lay Snacks Appear for Sale at Royal Dutch Shell Plc Gas Station in Louisville, Kentucky, USA on Monday, April 13, 2015. Photo by Luke Sharrett / Bloomberg
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There is outrage on the internet after a school in Pennsylvania said Monday that it would look for its students’ lunches and throw away “excessive amounts of outdoor snacks”.
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The announcement was made in a Facebook post by the Aliquippa School District, according to NBC News. The post was deleted on Tuesday after collecting hundreds of comments criticizing the practice that will take place at Aliquippa Junior Senior High School. The post explained that the students brought to school shopping bags full of chips and canned drinks. The new rule means they would be checked before entering the building and security guards would throw out anything more than a bag of 4 ounce chips and a 20 ounce drink. “Lunch Police,” one person commented on the Facebook post, the Miami Herald reported. “Maybe they should stay out of the parenting business and focus on giving our children quality education.”
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Another called it “absurd”, adding: “Perhaps, if school lunches were not so tiny and coarse, they would not need to bring extra snacks.” Not everyone was upset about politics. “I’ve seen some of the snacks children bring when I leave my daughter,” Janisha Walker’s parent told WPXI. “I ask my daughter: ‘Are they setting up a small shop?’ “Why do they carry a variety of chips and two liters of soft drinks to school?” Some students even sold and traded snacks, Supt. Philip Woods said at the exit, leading to distractions and arguments. Aliquippa School Board member Catherine Colalella said the concern goes beyond snacks and is a safety measure, as in other areas students have been seen bringing food to school.
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“We do not need to put our children at risk, we need to make sure they are safe inside our buildings,” he said. “We have to look at the bigger picture and understand what makes sense. I do not think any child needs to carry family-sized bags of chips for the day. “Children will not starve because they have free meals for breakfast and lunch.” Later in the week, comments were still left on their Facebook page, even though the post was removed. “Can I bring a big bag of chips and a very big drink or will your Gestapo stop me at the door?” wrote a person, under a post about the Aliquippa Wellness Festival. Concerned parents “with children in the area please contact the manager of your building”, the district wrote before deleting the post.
