Posted on 08/01/2017 3:24:51 PM PDT by bgill
The school said it required students to be between the 5 and 85 percentiles as far as BMI, which is marked in the nutrition category, and her daughter was in the 94 percentile.
After Dickens' husband received the letter in the mail, he immediately called his wife and asked, "So, is the school calling our kid fat?"
The letter required Dickens to bring her daughter to her pediatrician for further evaluation for her nutrition and must provide proof to the school that she did so.
"I understand hearing and vision because that affects their ability to be educated the proper way,” Dickens said.
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I want FedGov to read the Constitution and do everything in the enumerated powers - and nothing else. I want local schools to education our children in reading, math, science, history, civics, PE, and the arts - and nothing else. I want state and local government to do their jobs, enforce necessary and reasonable laws - and nothing else. The Nanny State is the enemy of freedom, and this weigh in for kindergarten is the Nanny State starting early.
Those charts have always been a bit iffy but my brother-in-law claims that at 5’9” and 250 lbs. that he’s just heavily muscled and big boned. I just consider him fat.
School runs anti-bullying campaign for the students then proceeds to bully the parents.
Can’t the girl just self-identify as a 50 year old skinny man? Seriously, schools now care about science/biology?
I wonder what would’ve been checked off if the wookie’s parents would’ve received such a letter?
If she is white, it is our business...the State
Two of my kids were in the 94th percentile for weight and height. My teenage girl is 5’9’’ and my son will probably grow to over 6ft tall. My other child is in the 24th percentile. She will probably be smaller than me and I’m 5’5.
BMI is BS. George W. Bush was very fit but fat according to his BMI.
http://www.exercisereports.com/2006/08/08/body-weight-and-bmi-an-issue-for-george-w-bush/
Mom and Dad are pretty chunky themselves
Mom claims kid is skinny....can’t be if her kid is in 94 percentile on weight
I'd guess that being overweight is probably the number one predicator for being bullied and these same parents complaining over the letters they receive about their child's weight will be the first parents to complain when their kid is bullied for being a corpulent hambeast.
Getting involved in your children's public schools takes time and effort. Much easier to piss and moan about "government-run indoctrination centers" on internet forums.
Here's a little secret: The schools would love it if more parents got involved.
When the kids get bullied, or diabetes, or have knee problems, who do you think the parents are going to blame? "They see her every day! They should've let us know if they thought something was wrong with her weight!"
As a teen, I eat but I’m not even 100 lbs. Doctor said I’m healthy, even thou I’m a bit underweight...
The story behind the story is that the NIH is pushing states to do this *in response* to increasing numbers of children who are developing Type II diabetes, even in elementary school.
Not Type I, sometimes called juvenile diabetes, but Type II, which can be called induced diabetes.
BMI is defined as the body mass divided by the square of the body height, and is universally expressed in units of kg/m2, resulting from mass in kilograms and height in meters.
So, here is the benign answer:
If a five year old child has a BMI in the 94th percentile, a pediatric exam is warranted to determine if the child has an underlying medical condition. If so, this examination might save her life. The blood test will check for
Impaired Fasting Glucose and Impaired Glucose Tolerance
Blood Sugar
Glycated hemoglobin (hbA1C) (blood sugar over a several month period)
Liver function
Cholesterol and Triglycerides
Body Fat Index
Hormone levels
My kids were all below the charts until late highschool. I guess the government would have had a cow. Their grandfather was jockey size. Genetics.
Everybody is required to between the 5% and 85% BMI percentile/ No Exceptions!
Hey, I’m in shape!
Round is a shape........snickering
Big bones huh, well I’ve never seen a fat skeleton.
Because society allowed the state to make it their business.
Don't get me wrong. I believe in the separation of school and state. Indeed, the 10th plank of the Communist Manifesto is "Free education for all children in public schools." In and of itself, that should have been enough for the good people of America to avoid public education. Nonetheless, here we are.
The phrase in loco parentis refers to the legal responsibility of a person or organization to take on some of the functions and responsibilities of a parent. As a general rule, the public school stands in loco parentis during school hours. There have been several US Supreme Court cases that have drawn the boundaries between students' Constitutional rights and the state.
The salient point is that when anyone sends their child to public school, not matter how good or bad is the school, no matter how much money they've taken in the form of confiscatory rates of taxation, no matter who's on the Board, YOU/the parent, have voluntarily yielded some of your God-given rights to raise your child.
In some locations, the principle of subsidiarity actually works - you can work with the school. Sometimes you get a school that's not too overbearing. Sometimes you get a teacher that works within the confines of the union. My 10th grade English teacher (God rest her soul) turned us on to Ayn Rand and had us read Anthem (now THAT was an eye-opener...right when I was getting into Rush).
The fact remains, if your child is in public school then you have (wittingly or not) allowed the state to have added control over you as a parent. That great 10th grade English teacher can morph into a commie 11th grade English teacher, and you (generally) can't do much about it.
I am fully cognizant of the fact that not every family can homeschool, and not every family (having been financially crippled by real estate taxes) can afford private school (where you may have even FEWER rights). Each situation is unique. Therefore, when I read stories like this one, we SHOULD hold them up as evidence of the stupidity of the state. What we don't do often enough, is remember in loco parentis, and that this is what happens when you yield a little bit of liberty to gain a little bit of safety.
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