WATCH: Inverness public react to recent ban of energy drinks at Charleston Academy
The Labour party has unveiled plans to ban the sale of high-caffeine drinks to children aged under 16. As a result, some schools have now banned energy drinks, and some have made new rules around them.
Charleston Academy is one of the most recent schools to ban energy drinks, and announced this newly enforced rule on their Facebook page, as well as embedding it into their handbook.
The handbook now states: “Caffeine energy drinks are banned outright in school and our local shop-keeper works in partnership with us to ensure these are not bought by pupils.”
Following this recent news, our reporter, Annabelle Gautlett, took to the streets of Inverness to ask the general public if they thought energy drinks should be allowed in schools or not.
One person said: “I think they shouldn’t be allowed in schools because they aren’t very good for you. I think by saying that they’re banned, kids are going to want them more, but they can have them at lunch or outside of school.”
Another person added: “If they allow Coke, for example, it’s not healthy either, so it doesn’t make sense to me to ban that kind of stuff. Maybe they should just allow water because even orange juice is full of calories too.”
While another tourist from Australia said: “I personally don’t think that they should be allowed because they’ve got extremally high levels of caffeine in them and I don’t think that it’s right for people who don’t need stimulants.“
