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joannejacobs.com - 1/14/2009
No sodas for teachers
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San Francisco's school board may take soda machines from teacher break rooms, to force teachers to set a good example for students. Students lost soda and candy machines in 2003. “I know of one school, and I won’t name names, where there is a soda machine in the principal’s office,” (trustee ...
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— sfexaminer.com — Teachers could be forced to give up sodas Examiner Staff Writer 1/13/09 SAN FRANCISCO Overworked and exhausted... San Francisco public school teachers and principals could be forced to give up their soda machines, as part of an effort to make sure they ... (more) www.sfexaminer.com >> Local News
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The Knucklehead of the Day award
Wizbang — ... drinks but sipping one themselves. Ms. Wynns do you or any of your fellow board members ever drink caffeinated coffee, get any kind of fast food for you or your children, eat beef? Should I go on? The school board needs to pay more attention to what is going on in the classroom, not what is being bought in the faculty break room. For failing that lesson, I give San Francisco Board of Education member Jill Wynns today's Knucklehead of the Day. Hat tip- Joanne Jacobs who writes - 'What's next? Rip out the coffee machine?'

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