Posted on 08/01/2017 3:24:51 PM PDT by bgill
Here’s another hint: The schools only love it if the parent agrees with their dictates when the parent gets involved.
I’m 5’, weight 127, 67 yrs, that is less than I weighed in HS. At Government’s BMI I am over weight by 15 lbs, no one take my muscle mass which is heavy into account, or genetics, Most of my Grandmother’s side is built like I am as we have native American blood lines, well diluted, but not the genetics. At 115 I’d bee sick all the time as it would compromise an already compromised immune system. Many of the meds they have tried cause hard to use rapid weight gains. I pitch those for side effects.
My Deplorable kids are active, but they could empty out the Winn Dixie warehouse, but our toddler is the only ‘fat’ kid in our house and he has his baby fat on him. Our kids are underweight, but the BMI is garbage...
I see just two issues when school intervention is acceptable.
1) When a parent is engaged in abusive behavior against their child. Not just scrapes, bruises and broken bones, but obviously encouraging children to engage in very unhealthy or destructive behavior, such as smoking, drinking alcohol or taking illegal drugs, or overeating to morbid obesity.
2) When a child might have a serious medical problem that the parents are unaware of or do not realize threatens the health or even life of their child and/or the other children. For example, it is legal to exclude children for not being vaccinated, for actually having infectious diseases, for body lice, when they have untreated asthma, or even psychiatric problems that cause them to lash out at others.
Just sending a note home that the child either needs or may need medical help is surprisingly ineffective. Often parents have neglectfully ignored their children’s problems, or even contribute to and encourage such problems. Only with the coercive threat that the child may not return to school without a doctor’s note is enough to punch through the neglect, in that children must be educated by *someone*, by law.
Seriously, schools only do this when the situation is borderline to contacting the state child protective services. A whole lot more coercive than needing a doctor’s note.
So! What happens to the outlying 20%?
Not everyone can afford to take their kids to the doctor for nothing but a bureaucrat’s ego.
The letter clearly says, "your child was recommended for further evaluation".
You looked at the pictures, but didn't read the story.
Lazy
But only if you do EXACTLY what they want, when they want.
And support raises for teachers...
A majority of states have both medical and religious/philo or conscience exemptions to vaccination. IIRC the only way to exclude an exempt child from school in most of these states, is if there is an outbreak and a state emergency is declared.
Your posts read as if they were the point of view of a conventional pediatrician, or possibly child protective services?
It IS if you expect the government to care for the health issues of your baby whale...
The BMI tables are total and utter nonsense. They barely make sense for Chinese people. By the BMI index, Tom Brady is overweight (6'4, 225), and LeBron James (6'8 250) is 12 pounds from obese.
I read the story
http://www.ncsl.org/research/health/school-immunization-exemption-state-laws.aspx
Just to note it is more complex than just permitting exemptions to vaccination. The tricky part is that no state has an exemption for “abuse”, but vary considerably how they define “abuse.”
Math is hard. Let’s go shopping.
Not very carefully.
You need to be more specific
The kid has a BMI in the 94th percentile. Mom claims the kid is skinny. Mom and Dad both have a bit of heft to them
Maybe you didn’t read the article
I can’t read the story and your post for you.
You claim I didn’t read the article. I cite what the article says and you refuse to specify what you think I missed.
Seems to me you did not read the article
I cite what the article says....Incorrectly
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