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Mom’s outrage after sporty 11-year-old daughter is sent home with a "fat letter"
The Daily Mail ^
| October 6, 2013
| Ryan Gorman
Posted on 10/08/2013 6:46:15 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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I shortened the title so it could fit the 100-character limit. The full title is:
Moms outrage after sporty 11-year-old daughter is sent home with a letter from school calling her overweight
To: SheLion; Eric Blair 2084; -YYZ-; 31R1O; 383rr; AFreeBird; AGreatPer; Alamo-Girl; Alia; altura; ...
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posted on
10/08/2013 6:47:01 AM PDT
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(Major brain damage at UMES, but no property damage!)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Sixty years ago my mom got sent home with a letter from an officious school nurse claiming that she was suffering from “malnutrition”.
My red-haired Irish grandmother stormed her way into that school and gave them what-for. I don’t think they ever sent such a letter home with a child again.
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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posted on
10/08/2013 6:50:01 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong. .....Voltaire)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
BMI is a hack way to say a child is obese. The school does not know what it is doing.
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posted on
10/08/2013 6:50:20 AM PDT
by
Bayard
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
They use BMI, Body Mass Index, which is a flawed concept...................
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posted on
10/08/2013 6:51:41 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong. .....Voltaire)
To: Red Badger
She’s a little young for you.
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posted on
10/08/2013 6:53:28 AM PDT
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(Major brain damage at UMES, but no property damage!)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
My Niece was also sent home with this letter. I didn't get the impression my SIL or MIL was outraged, they put her on a diet. The kid has a Mcdonalds diet so now my MIL has her eating better something her horses ass mother did not do.
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posted on
10/08/2013 6:53:40 AM PDT
by
angcat
To: Bayard
Way back in 1976 or so, when I was in the Marine Corps, a young corporal in my company got put on the ‘Fat Body’ platoon because his BMI said he was overweight. He was short, about 5’4” and was a karate instructor and a body builder, solid muscle................
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posted on
10/08/2013 6:54:13 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong. .....Voltaire)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
What about Mom?..............
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posted on
10/08/2013 6:55:11 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong. .....Voltaire)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
So...why are they measuring the girl’s height and weight in any case? Are they buying her some new clothes?
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posted on
10/08/2013 6:55:18 AM PDT
by
Straight Vermonter
(Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
This exactly the kind of thing that could trigger anorexia and bulimia in young girls. My youngest daughter is like the girl in the story, tall and athletic and she’s always saying she thinks she’s fat because she weighs more than her friends and we have to keep telling her she’s not and that she’s lucky to be a tall girl.
If someone at her school were to do something like this people would be losing their jobs. But then again this is just one more reason my kids don’t go to public schools.
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posted on
10/08/2013 6:56:03 AM PDT
by
ElkGroveDan
(My tagline is in the shop.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
5 foot 5, 124 pounds is actually thin. How can anyone consider that overweight? I’m looking at the charts and it’s on the small side.
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The mom should send the daughter back with fat letters about the overweight school administrators.
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posted on
10/08/2013 6:58:24 AM PDT
by
philetus
(Keep doing what you always do and you'll eventually get what you deserve)
To: Red Badger
Ma’s OK, I guess. Follow the link and behold . . .
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posted on
10/08/2013 7:00:25 AM PDT
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(Major brain damage at UMES, but no property damage!)
To: philetus
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posted on
10/08/2013 7:01:33 AM PDT
by
Eric in the Ozarks
("Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth.")
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Are all girls supposed to look like anorexic runway models?
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posted on
10/08/2013 7:02:50 AM PDT
by
BitWielder1
(Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
To: old and tired
For an 11 year old, that’s pretty big.
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posted on
10/08/2013 7:03:32 AM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(Obama: What did I not know and when did I not know it?)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Superintendent Kamela Patton ...... no stranger to food.
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
BMI is bogus. I’d like to see the stats on the teachers and staff.
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posted on
10/08/2013 7:04:49 AM PDT
by
TangoLimaSierra
(To the left the truth looks like Right-Wing extremism.)
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