apmom wrote
Child obesity is being "done" in the schools? They are the problem? Lord, lets let the "government" or schools just dictate how we should feed our children and while we are at it, let them supply all the food needed and the cooks to cook their 3 meals a day. Lets dump all programs like Recess (wait, they have in many schools) and PE and any other program that might get the kids moving instead of sitting in from of a whiteboard and computer all day. Why not just get rid of "kids" and build robots?

My kids were not obese. Granted it is a problem but why is that so? TV? Computers? Lack of "go outside and play"? Sounds to me like we need classes on how to be a parent, not do a test on our kids in school. IMO, that is overstepping the bounds of what I pay taxes to educate my children with. They can't read? No problem. They have XXX excess body fat. They can't count? No problem, they are XXX body fat.
How can you be against collecting aggregate obesity data but for sex education in schools?

Both are intrusions into parental rights to raise their children.


"To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it." --Thomas Jefferson