Public school says it’s searching student lunches brought from home, confiscating ‘excessive’ chips, soda, candy

A western Pennsylvania public school district announced that one of its schools was to begin searching student lunches brought from home this week and confiscating “excessive” quantities of chips, soda, candy and other snacks.

What are the details?

The Aliquippa School District posted a Facebook message saying that “due to the excessive amounts of outside snacks” being brought into Aliquippa Junior/Senior High School — including “shopping bags full of chips” and “bottled and canned drinks” and “candy” — starting April 4, each student is limited to bringing to school up to one 4-ounce bag of chips and up to one 20-ounce bottled or canned beverage, WPXI-TV said.

If more than the allotted items are brought to school, authorities will throw them out, the message said. In addition, the rule also applies to students who bring their lunches to school — which will be searched.