I owe a thanks to the WSJournal Opinion Journal for pointing me to a story from the greater Salt Lake City area.
It seems that students had been restricted in the amount and type of junk food allowed to be purchased in the school. In a decision, apparently motivated, at least partly, by the consideration of hypocrisy, teachers also had their access to junk food from faculty room vending machines severely restricted.
The article is at:
http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,695208261,00.html
In a sense, those teachers who would restrict student access to vending machine snacks but would not restrict teacher access to those same snacks are guilty of a hypocrisy. But I would regard this as the hypocrisy you need to get through the day.
There are clearly some things to which access to minors must be restricted as a matter of policy. Minors must not be allowed to buy alcohol or vote because that is the law and the law is based on a thought that minors can't handle the type of decisionmaking involved. Whether this thought is correct or not is besides the point.
Additionally, the WSJ discussion of this article points out that teachers may assign homework to students but not the other way around.
The WSJ site is the Sept 10, 2007 edition of:
http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/
