Posted on 10/08/2013 6:46:15 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
My wife is 5’8” and 127lbs. IMO, she needs a sammich or two.
You can consider that “overweight” if you want, but you’d be wrong.
The government school system only has enough food rations for ‘normal’ size, pre-anorexic girls so get with it comrade. Wait till next week when the toilet paper ration is announced!
Are you saying that your mother was NOT malnourished? Because then, you would be right to criticize the nurse's actions. But if your mother was indeed malnourished, then the nurse's actions were justified.
In the article posted here, it is quite clear that the school authorities were in the wrong, as demonstrated by the cited facts of the case. But in your anecdote, you cite no such supporting facts.
It would truly be a shame if the school had indeed suddenly discontinued sending home such letters, because some of the schoolchildren may in actuality have been malnourished.
Regards,
She’s perfect.
I’d tell the school to GTH.
At our annual health screening of a couple years back a woman I work with tested obese.
She told the medical tech she was 5 feet 4 inches, and the dumbass put down that she was 54 inches tall!
Looks like the whole gang could use a spinning class or two.
BMI is BS. Just about anyone who is an athlete or works out is considered overweight according to BMI.
Yep, in ‘72 in the USAF, had a friend 6’3” & 205, solid muscle, martial arts type, was put on “fat boy” program.
I suggested he go to Base Commander’s office to fight it, but he didn’t.
Meanwhile, NCO’s with a gut visable at 100 paces, received no such notice.
That Mother ought to take note of the condition of the School Faculty.
What did they expect with a family name like “Grasso”?
:-)
Same with my friend. He enjoyed the mandatory workouts, plus he got to take time off of work three days a week in the afternoons at 2 pm to go and exercise!.......................
5’5”, 124 pounds is NOT fat. If anything, she’s underweight.
It was a middle-class neighborhood in the 1950’s, made of up of gainfully employed, intact families. Very few people were malnourished. Certainly not my mom and her family.
After hearing that I always admired my Grandma for her in-your-face, MYOB attitude towards government authority. She came out of the Depression experience where over-zealous FDR-loving social workers did SOOOOOO much damage.
Tall but certainly not big aka fat.
All the mother has to do is go to the administration and tell them the girl is questioning her sexuality.
She will then be treated like a queen and told everything is okay because she was born that way.
Parents should start sending ‘fat-notes’ to overweight teachers and administrators.
I need to subscribe to the UK daily mail so I can get hard US news.
EXACTLY. Using BMI, I am overweight. However, with a BODY FAT CHART, I am classified as FIT. If I lose about 5 pounds I am considered Athletic.
Problem with BMI is it assumes a sedentary lifestyle. With Exercise, bone density increase (huge issue for Women and old) as will as muscle mass. With active people, BMI is BS.
Your story mirrors my own Mother’s. Back in 1939, the school did the same thing with my Mom, telling her parents they were concerned because she was so thin. My grandparents, being new here from Italy, took that advice and sent my Mother to a ‘fat farm’ to get her weight up.
My very strong and brave Mother, ‘escaped’ from that place in the middle of the night, followed the rail road tracks home and that was that!
Can you imagine a 10 year girl doing some such thing today?!
I was always so in awe of that story...and my Mom was just one of the women that ate what she wanted and did not gain weight! Lucky girl ~
To see how old a concept it is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_mass_index
It’s based on someone’s concept of what a ‘perfect’ body should ‘look’ like.................
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