tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340684.post110625124185537407..comments2024-03-24T09:36:51.494-04:00Comments on delagar: Umm...delagarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18197857250240640822noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340684.post-1106489373244228172005-01-23T09:09:00.000-05:002005-01-23T09:09:00.000-05:00Okay,
I couldn't resist adding my two cents worth....Okay,<br />I couldn't resist adding my two cents worth. My grandson, who is tall and lean, recieved his BMI report card. The report said he had the potential to be overweight. How does that work. You look at a tall thin kid, who has tall thin parents, and you decide that even though he isn't fat now, he will be. Hmmm. At the same school, there is a child that was well over 200 pounds and his mother took him out of school because the teachers and the other students tormented him about his weight. As a result, he is now getting an inferrior education, no exercise, no social interaction, and is home alone while his mother sleeps. (works the night shift)<br />If Arkansas was so hell bent on making a difference, there should have been some kind of intervention over this little boy. If a child has behavior problems, they give him every bit of a chance of an education by putting them in special classes. Same if there are children that are mentally disabled, yet this child is not only denied help but is essential bullied out of school. What is the point? Let's test children and when we find something leave it alone. That's the American way. Collect information to file, or better yet, collect information to make more labels, and then we can put more information in those little categories so there can be reports that announce which race has the fattest people, which geographic region ect.... Reminds me of my first grade class. I wanted to be a blue bird. I knew I read well enough enough to be a blue bird, but the yellow birds were the other children like me. We came to school in not so new clothes, from homes that had more children than food, and our mothers were usually not involved. By the time the teacher realized how well I read, she shoved me quickly to the blue birds where only two other students were members. Both children were products of other teachers. I out read them and soon had to go across the hall for my reading. That is what the BMI is doing. Fat kids or potentially fat kids will only be looked at differently by their not so smart elementary teachers.zelda1https://www.blogger.com/profile/04212809913449846878noreply@blogger.com