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Mom to state: My daughter's weight is none of your business (GA)
kvue ^ | July 31, 2017 | Catherine Park

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at kvue.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: arth; bmi; nannystate; school; studentweight
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To: Drew68

Here’s another hint: The schools only love it if the parent agrees with their dictates when the parent gets involved.


61 posted on 08/01/2017 9:35:55 PM PDT by MortMan (Nobody goes there any more. It's too crowded! [Y. Berra])
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To: Popman

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.


62 posted on 08/02/2017 4:42:45 AM PDT by GailA (Ret. SCPO wife: suck it up buttercups it's President Donald Trump!)
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To: bgill

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...


63 posted on 08/02/2017 5:00:49 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is DEPLORABLE :-))
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

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.


64 posted on 08/02/2017 5:28:28 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (HitlerÂ’s Mein Kampf, translated into Arabic, is "My Jihad")
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To: Oztrich Boy

So! What happens to the outlying 20%?


65 posted on 08/02/2017 5:53:38 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: Pollster1

Not everyone can afford to take their kids to the doctor for nothing but a bureaucrat’s ego.


66 posted on 08/02/2017 7:24:46 AM PDT by SaraJohnson ( Whites must sue for racism. It's pay day.)
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To: bgill
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.

The letter clearly says, "your child was recommended for further evaluation".

67 posted on 08/02/2017 7:33:59 AM PDT by Mr.Unique (The government, by its very nature, cannot give except what it first takes.)
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To: Nifster
Mom and Dad are pretty chunky themselves Mom claims kid is skinny....can’t be if her kid is in 94 percentile on weight

You looked at the pictures, but didn't read the story.

Lazy

68 posted on 08/02/2017 8:27:52 AM PDT by Mr.Unique (The government, by its very nature, cannot give except what it first takes.)
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To: Drew68
Here's a little secret: The schools would love it if more parents got involved.

But only if you do EXACTLY what they want, when they want.

And support raises for teachers...

69 posted on 08/02/2017 8:33:09 AM PDT by Mr.Unique (The government, by its very nature, cannot give except what it first takes.)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

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?


70 posted on 08/02/2017 9:12:38 AM PDT by SecAmndmt (Arm yourselves!)
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To: bgill
Mom to state: My daughter's weight is none of your business (GA)

It IS if you expect the government to care for the health issues of your baby whale...

71 posted on 08/02/2017 12:43:38 PM PDT by publius911 (Less Tweets More Golf! it works!!!)
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To: heartwood
BMI does take height into account.

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.

72 posted on 08/02/2017 12:49:34 PM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: Mr.Unique

I read the story


73 posted on 08/02/2017 1:12:44 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: SecAmndmt

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.”


74 posted on 08/02/2017 5:19:51 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (HitlerÂ’s Mein Kampf, translated into Arabic, is "My Jihad")
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To: reg45

Math is hard. Let’s go shopping.


75 posted on 08/02/2017 5:35:39 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Winter is coming)
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To: Nifster

Not very carefully.


76 posted on 08/02/2017 8:27:58 PM PDT by Mr.Unique (The government, by its very nature, cannot give except what it first takes.)
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To: Mr.Unique

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


77 posted on 08/02/2017 9:25:38 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Nifster

I can’t read the story and your post for you.


78 posted on 08/02/2017 9:58:13 PM PDT by Mr.Unique (The government, by its very nature, cannot give except what it first takes.)
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To: Mr.Unique

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


79 posted on 08/02/2017 10:16:03 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Nifster
I cite what the article says....
Incorrectly
80 posted on 08/03/2017 7:17:46 AM PDT by Mr.Unique (The government, by its very nature, cannot give except what it first takes.)
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