by Ben Kouchnerkavich
Holland, Mich.--The Holland New Tech school store was a promising economic
venture, but some school nurses have a different opinion about it.
While visiting New Tech to do drills with the 8th
grade students on Wednesday, a group of school nurses were most displeased with
some of the products being sold at the school store, deeming them unhealthy.
This has caused some employees of the school store to
question whether or not they even want to continue selling products before
school and during lunch.
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| Sophomore Izak Fritz |
One such student is sophomore Izak Fritz, who was involved
in the development of the school store.
“I was talking to [school store creator Bryce Crenshaw] one
day,” said Izak. “And he asked if I wanted to work at school store. I said
‘sure.’”
Izak was part of helping to decide what they would sell at
the store and what the prices would be.
For the most part, he likes working there.
“It’s fun,” he said. “There are nice people you get to talk
to and ask how they are doing. [However], sometimes people yell at you when you
aren’t fast enough.”
Izak described the experience when the school nurses saw
what they were selling there.
“They saw the foods and decided it was a terrible idea and
that we needed to stop selling junk food,” he elaborated. “It made me upset
after all the hard work and time we put into it. I don’t know if I want to work
there anymore.”
“I don’t know why they would allow [unhealthy foods to be
sold] in the first place”, an anonymous 11th grader said.
Izak is concerned that selling exclusively healthy food
would result in a decrease in the amount of money being brought in.
