Fla. Children Decide To Forgo Trip Rather Than Sell Unhealthy Candy

[The Straight Story]

Fla. Children Decide To Forgo Trip Rather Than Sell Unhealthy Candy

POSTED: 10:49 am EST February 3, 2006

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- For more than a year, some children at North Side Elementary School learned about the health dangers posed by candy and empty snacks.

So when Monique Manigat's gifted class of fourth- and fifth-graders was asked to sell chocolate bars, potato chips and hard candy to fund class trips, the 19 children decided that would be hypocritical and refused.

"If they tell us to don't eat junk food and then after school we sell it, that disobeys what they said," said Daphnie Auguste, the 10-year-old ringleader. She hasn't raised one dollar toward her personal $455 goal. "I'm happy because people won't get fat. But I'm sad because how are we going to get the money to go on our field trip?"

The school's fifth-graders have until the end of February to raise a remaining $12,000 needed for a weeklong trip in May to Williamsburg, Va., and Washington, D.C. Manigat tried to organize car washes for her pupils but said businesses asked her to pay insurance, something the school can't afford.

http://www.local6.com/news/6707271/detail.html

How about * peels off a few bucks from the Iraq war budget and helps em out eh :)

[JDPriestly]

1. I thought for sure this was an Onion article.

Amazing!!!

[tanyev]

2. What amazing kids!

:applause::applause:

[vptpt]

3. Good for them

They're already showing more intelligence than George. With the publicity, I'm sure someone will step up to help them out.

[BlueJazz]

4. Good for Them!..You know also, I checked the labels on ...

"Girl Scout Cookies" once and Sweet Jesus!!..The damn things are
boxed Heart Attacks...I mean, the Saturated Fat is about 150 percent for 2 cookies..absolutly Ridiculous.
It's not the Girls fault selling the cookies..just the manufacture
of those disgusting things.....

[calico1]

5. Good for them!

I think it is criminal that schools continue to use junk food to raise funds for schools.

[The Straight Story]

6. For our chess club we found a few creative ways to raise money

we played an insanity tournament, 24 hours of chess and got people to sponsor us per hour. We also did a simul exhibition at the school against faculty and students.

Only junk food we sold was on St Patrick's day, green donuts :)

[calico1]

8. I don't have kids but I see a lot of the school

kids around here holding car washes. (At least during the warmer months). I gladly pay for a car wash. My car gets clean and nobody get their arteries clogged. There have got to be better ways to raise money than with junk food.

[raccoon]

7. Thanks for posting--there is hope after all. nt

[Lisa]

9. wow! I just finished reading a story about the anti-slavery movement

... described in Adam Hochschild's "Bury the Chains" -- where a 10-year-old British boy decided to give up sweets, rather than eat sugar produced on slave plantations!

Those children are following a great tradition. I hope that they do get to go on their field trip to the nation's capital.

p.s. They could set a valuable example for their political representatives.

[faithnotgreed]

10. kick for the "10 year old ringleader"

heres to many more years of her being an independent and forward-thinking ringleader