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Listened to a school nurse recently say she checked the BMI of overweight students back to when they entered school K-12..they came into school obese. They did not get that way from what was readily available at school.

Also I agreed with this article by a chef you may recognize and it seemed a good way to educate kids in a way that might also offer a career source with hands on learning of the culinary arts field-an explosion of interest by all ages readily avail. on certain networks. Enthusiasm in a class which could benefit a student in many ways.

JamieOliver

I guess you could compare this scenario to the old Fish adage of the importance of the pole, not the fish.

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School Nurses Check Children’s BMI? Why, so they can screen them and take control of their nutrition AWAY from the Parents?

Yours was an interesting and erudite post, but it revealed a deeper and more sinister backstory. School Nurses are checking kid’s fat-to-muscle ratio??? What ELSE are they examining? This is what Conservatives have been concerned about...the loss of control over the raising of our own children.

But then again...it’s “FOR THE CHILDREN”, so why not take all parental authority away in terms of nutrition, psychological screening, religious training, “Values Clarification”, Sex Education, Interpersonal relationships, recreational activities, tolerance training, and sexual orientation? Testing BMI in other people’s children should NOT be the function of the School Nurse. Checking the kids for head lice is appropriate, but not invasive testing like that.

Just my humble opinion.