Friday, March 7, 2008

And they call it the "No Child Left With a Behind Act"

So much for me making Honor Roll next quarter...
Posted by kakelly at 10:57 PM
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1 comments:

Tigerkid14 said...

You know what's really hard for me about this? It's the fact that on one hand, we really do have a problem with obesity in our country, but on the other hand, we also have a problem with eating disorders and body image. So while I want to support measures to increase recreation for kids in grades K-12 and to get healthier, better food in the schools, I also don't want it to become some big thing where kids are getting bad grades/reports for not being skinny enough.

I mean honestly, overweight children (and people in general) get enough tormenting as it is, do we really want to mandating that the adults (teachers and parents alike) single them out and tell them they're not good enough as well? Hell, if we're going to do that, then let's just inundate them with all the fashion magazines, television, and every other image in the world that tells them that skinny is essential to their ability to just be human beings...oh wait, we already do that. My bad.

Sunday, March 9, 2008 12:05:00 AM CST

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