Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Stupid Ed board member: Fat kids shouldn't be reminded they're fat
Posted by Scott Henry @ScottTheHenry on Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 5:00 PM
According to a story in today's Marietta Daily Journal, a member of the city school board balked at news that all students would be tested for physical fitness after Christmas, in compliance with the Georgia Student Health and Physical Education Act passed by state lawmakers in 2009.
Board Member Randy Weiner complained that fat kids don't need to be called out:
“It seems like it’s a way to rub parents’ noses in the fact that their child is overweight, out of shape and what have you. If they’re good parents, they already know it, so it doesn’t seem very useful. It’s a way for the state to collect data, that’s why this is mandated.”
Weiner went on to say the program seems an unnecessary intrusion by government into people's lives.
Hmm. I don't know if Weiner's a Republican, but since he's a Marietta politician, chances are good that he is. Does he not remember the President's Council on Physical Fitness during the '80s, when then-Pres. Reagan mandated that every boy and girl in America would be embarrassed in gym class by being scored in running, pull-ups and other humiliations? If this program was good enough for the Gipper, it should be good enough for some freakin' small-town school board member. That's all I'm sayin'.
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Problem is the brain doesn't recognize just how heavy the body really is, and heavy parents don't recognize how heavy their kids really are. A number of NY Times health articles on these two subjects over the past 1-2 yrs.
Conversely, heard that a study came out recently (on NPR, quoting Wellstar) that putting teen-agers on an aggressive weight reduction program has great success b/c of their young metabolisms are easier to re-set than old fogies (problem with recurrent weight rebound; your brain doesn't reset to a lower weight even a year later, it's still trying to get you to put the weight back on).
A friend is quite proud of his Natl Prez Fitness Award, with NIXON's (robo) signature on it~ So that program goes way back to the early 1970s. For a good reason...
fat kids shouldn't be reminded that they're fat, it might hurt their feelings
gay kids and brown kids should be constantly reminded, though
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