Davis High School in Salt Lake City, Utah, is being forced to cut money from their fine arts programs to make up the cost of the $15,000 Federal fine ($0.75 for each lunch the school serves) for accidentally selling soda during its lunch period.
KUTV reported the issue saying, “School lunch is served for 47 minutes each day, and federal law clearly states no soda can be sold during that time.”
Davis High Principal Dee Burton informed the news station the school has always been aware of the law and regularly shuts down the vending machines during lunch, but “Nobody realized our bookstore also sold carbonated beverages.”
While the law may seem absurd, it is the law, but just like Facebook co-founders finding ways to avoid capital gains taxes, students have found a way around the soda ban as well: just buy it elsewhere or before or after lunch when it is legal to sell soda.
To add to the irony of the ban, sugar loaded Gatorade is allowed along with Snickers and Milky Way bars. Why? Snickers and Milky Way bars “have nuts and they’re nutritious,” Principal Burton said. “You can’t sell licorice, but you can sell ice-cream,” he added. More
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