> A school "banning" themselves from selling junk food isn't a ban, Not relevant given that I highlighted how the schools were banned either by the district or

> A school "banning" themselves from selling junk food isn't a ban, Not relevant given that I highlighted how the schools were banned either by the district or by state law, not banning themselves. Which would, per your definition, make it a ban. Would you prefer seeing only scholarly publications describe it as a ban? "Do School Junk Food Bans Improve Student Health? Evidence from Canada", in Canadian Public Policy, https://www.utpjournals.press/doi/full/10.3138/cpp.2016-090 https://www.utpjournals.press/doi/full/10.3138/cpp.2016-090 "Examining Compliance with a Statewide Law Banning Junk Food and Beverage Marketing in Maine Schools", Public Health Reports, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/003335491212700211 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/003335491212700... "Banning All Sugar-Sweetened Beverages in Middle Schools", Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med, https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/1107716 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/... "Breaking habits: The effect of the French vending machine ban on school snacking and sugar intakes", JOURNAL OF POLICY ANALYSIS AND MANAGEMENT, https://cris.unibo.it/bitstream/11585/606157/6/CapacciS_JPAM_2018_postprint.pdf https://cris.unibo.it/bitstream/11585/606157/6/CapacciS_JPAM... (this banned all vending machines from primary and secondary schools, no matter what was sold). With a Google Scholar search I could easily give hundreds of similar citations. > I don't sell junk food, is that a ban because you can't buy junk food from me? Are you being serious or merely cantankerous? If the school librarian wants to have keep a copy of the 1975 book "Forever ..." by Judy Blume in circulation, and state law prohibits it, why is that not a ban? It is, after all, "a prohibition on doing or having something." If a school want to have a soda vending machine on campus, because of the extra revenue it brings the school, but the district changes policy to prevent that option, why is it not a ban?