A Lethbridge, Alta., high school student was suspended last week for selling non-diet soft drinks to his peers, violating school nutritional and marketing policies and drawing the ire of administrators.
Keenan Shaw, 17, a student of Winston Churchill high school, received a two-day suspension for violating the school's diet-only soft drink rules.
Mr. Shaw arrived at the school last week carrying a case full of pop, which was recently banned from the school.
He began selling it to fellow students, knowing he was flouting the administration's restrictions on the drink but not expecting the punishment.
"I thought it was a joke," Mr. Shaw said. "I didn't think they could [suspend] me for selling pop."
The teenager began selling pop from his locker after learning that the school had banned non-diet soft drinks, a policy adopted from the Lethbridge school board's nutritional guidelines. The venture proved wildly popular with his peers: Mr. Shaw said he sold his first pack in mere minutes. He spent the next week repeating this routine; generating more revenue and pouring it back into the purchase of pop.
But when administrators got wind of his scheme, their response was quick and decisive.
He said they warned him that if he didn't give up the burgeoning business, "they were going to sever the student-school bond" — which Mr. Shaw interpreted as expulsion.
Lethbridge school board's superintendent, Sheryl Gilmour told the National Post that Mr. Shaw violated a nutritional policy and ignored marketing and distribution rules, which resulted in the two-day suspension.
While selling banned soft drinks wouldn't warrant a suspension, Ms. Gilmour said a "steadfast refusal to follow school policies" coupled with "persistent and pervasive" skirting of school rules could ultimately lead to it.
"At some point, there could be a refusal from the student. They might say, 'I won't follow your rules,'" she said. "In that situation, a school doesn't have a lot of avenues for disciplinary action [aside from suspension].
"It's about refusing to comply with rules."
That doesn't sit well with Mr. Shaw's mother, Alyssa Shaw-Letourneau, who takes issue with the school quashing her son's business.
"I like the idea of him being an entrepreneur," she said. "I know there's rules, but I tend to think suspensions are for major problems."
But Ms. Gilmour stressed that the suspension wasn't triggered entirely by the business, but rather his refusal to heed the advice of school staff.
"I won't dispute he took action on a market, just like an entrepreneur would," said Ms. Gilmour. "But entrepreneurs have to follow rules, too."
She noted the importance of measures like the ones taken against Mr. Shaw in ensuring that students aren't bombarded with advertisements and marketing in schools.
"Schools are an environment free of advertising and merchandise — unless previously approved by the principal," she said.
National Post
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