The Candy Bar Mafia

This is sweet. Literally.

California schools, after having banned all junk food from public schools in 2005, are now encountering a new phenomenon that should have been expected - kids who smuggle candy onto school grounds and sell it at inflated prices.

Supply and demand. Never fails, and prohibitions always do, whether one is discussing prostitutes, alcohol, or in this case, Mars bars.

What's even more amusing is the admission from one of the school principals that the junk food ban isn't working at all:

"'I think they get a good nutritional lunch here, but looking at our kids and looking at physical education scores, I don’t see how it’s been a highly effective program,' [Principal] Nason said."

Of course it hasn't been effective. It's just another "feel-good" policy that fails to do anything to improve a problem, bad eating habits and lack of exercise in this case, that is taught and reinforced at home. It's the parents' job to educate their kids about this stuff, not the Social Studies teacher's.