iwakar
crush the fences
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I hate that physical imperfection is becoming increasingly equated with parental negligence. It's so not that simple.
Agreed. It's determining the difference.
I hate that physical imperfection is becoming increasingly equated with parental negligence. It's so not that simple.
I don't care if the kid really was truly overweight - why are the schools getting involved in this?
And there's no way of doing this that keeps these kids from being further marginalized. I'd even say if you think there is, you haven't actually been overweight and you don't get what these kids are feeling. These kids and these parents are well aware of the kids' differences. All this does is (further) embarrass the kids.
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Meh.
I think the UK has more problems with weight than any other place in Europe. I'm sure they are trying all sorts of stuff, though this instance seems like drastic overreaching.
Kinda like nationalized healthcare. This is what we are looking forward to. Who knows if that pound is muscle or fat. Looks like muscle. But hey, that's SOP with nationalized healthcare. Finding out a kid is a pound overweight immediately warrants a fictitious warning generated from an automated government message sender which made its conclusion from information of the kid being one pound over the assumed healthy weight while knowing or not knowing more context. Because that stat trumped all else. Beaurocracy at its finest. Now the poor kid thinks he's fat because a govt memo didn't consider he is a pound over weight due to being healthy. I smell a verbal abuse (via Govt letter) lawsuit in the making. This calls for sensitivity training. imo
Don't take it personal ajb. Most of that is response to OP. and a bit of Fi