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DEL.ICIO.USSelling junk food to raise money for schools
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
School administrators say soft-drink contracts provide money for needs that otherwise go unfilled, such as band uniforms, student breakfasts before standardized tests, musical equipment and computers. A new analysis of 120 soft drink contracts in 16 states, performed by the health advocacy group Center for Science in the Public Interest, says that schools make, on average, $18 a student per year from such contracts, and that schools get a bigger cut of the profits from fundraisers like wrapping paper or candle sales. Does your child’s school benefit from vending machine sales? How is the money used? Should schools sell junk food to children to raise money for “extras”?
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By BandDirector
December 6, 2006 06:54 PM | Link to this
I have yet to see any money for the band from Coke machines - though there is one right outside my door…these sugary drinks and other junk foods keep the kids hyped up, and they make a mess with spills and trash. I think they should get rid of the drink machines and find some other means of raising money!!!