Posted on 05/10/2005 9:50:21 PM PDT by beaversmom
1. Put a special tax on fast food restaurants and "junk food" grocery items
You think I'm joking? Write down my seven step plan, and in about 10 years see how much of it has happened. This is the same seven step plan (with some modifications for the specific product) that has been time-tested to control behavior.
I don't think the education types care about anything but control now a days.
You are right....they have no business doing the parents job.
This BMI fiasco is proof that they have gone into areas where they don't belong.
But if you are in Texas, take a look at what is going on in Austin these days......
There is no end in sight.
As for physical fitness.......
There are too many school psych types out there screaming that PE is depressing to those who don't like to exercise.
They may feel outcast.....it may affect them long term...blah...blah...blah.
meanwhile...its perfectly ok for the kids to download violent games, music, and adult images on the school computers because......
It broadens their minds......
Something has gone really wrong....
Oh, yeah...I agree.
I was just indicating how they have already started on the list....
The BMI is just junk "medicine". If they did pinch tests, or real boby fat measurements, (which the kids would love since it involves being weighed underwater), that would be one thing, but this is crap.
Talk about a hypocrite.
I caught about two second of FOX News this afternoon when I was home for lunch, they were talking about (I think Detroit) taxing fast food restaurants. Everywhere I turn, our individual liberties are under assault from the government that was supposed to protect those liberties. Some things they will legislate away from us, others they will simply take through regulation and taxation, and some they will wrestle from us because it's "for the children." Our Twinkies we will lose for the good of the chil'run.
That photograph caused a ripple in the Space-Time continuum...
Thanks for posting the pic ... I knew it, but it's nice to have my knowledge confirmed.
Oh, you're cracking me up.
I always liked PE. In High School...that time was taken up by Ath. Which was basically practice and off season training.
I remember in middle school.......playing basket ball, base ball, or what ever in PE...and then going to practice after school for Football or soccer or track.
I was getting to do all of them that way.
In high school.....it got limited. But to be honest, especially with off season running along with Soccer, I was getting all the exercise I needed.
Maybe they should take a BMI of her and put it in the papers.
Or may I call you Amy?
;)
"Although some districts already calculate their pupils BMI, a bill proposed by Sen. Leticia Van de Putte, D-San Antonio, would require schools to record the number on student report cards."
That's good, because parents obviously have no other way of telling whether or not their kids are getting fat.
I wonder if brain matter also weighs more than fat, because that could also be throwing them for a loop.
I'd be happy if the schools removed soda machines from their campuses. My kids also get more unhealthy snacks at school The school parties just load up the kids with junk. At times it just gets to be toooooo much.
One of my daughters is a little chunky, so I don't like her eating junk. My son is really skinny, but he tends to eat the junk and skip the healthy food.
I agree. It gets to be way too much. My son goes to Cub Scouts and the parents alternate bringing snacks. When it's our turn we try to bring something like cheese sticks, crackers, grapes, real fruit juice--something somewhat healthy. All the other parents bring is sugary, dyed junk. It's everywhere you go.
I think you used to post at Yahoo, didn't you? I remember you from the GWB club over there. I was jdla and egg over there.
That was me. I haven't been active in the yahoo groups. I've just switched to free republic. It's time consuming enough.
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