Haha, I thought this thread would be about the fact that every other cop I’ve seen recently is obese.
[quote]Brother Chris wrote:
Wait, I’m still not sure why I care if someone else is fat?[/quote]
Really? How about higher health insurance premiums?
[quote]LIFTICVSMAXIMVS wrote:
If you want your child healthy do not wait for the school to take charge to make it happen. YOU, the parent! needs to get your fatass kid in some sports!![/quote]
Yup… unfortunately all too few bother with keeping themselves healthy, much less their kids.
Terrible policy.
PE is good, but I don’t think anybody gets in shape from PE. I took the Presidential Fitness Test in high school, and a lot of the kids – mostly girls, I have to say – just walked through the timed mile. If they don’t care, they don’t care.
A good solution, though I’m not sure if it could be implemented at public schools across the country, is what they did at my friend’s prep school. Everybody participates in a sport, intramural if not varsity, for three seasons a year. It helps them get into college, and it keeps them in shape. My friend wasn’t even a super-duper athlete, but boy did she do her best.
It’s really a cultural thing. If you see everybody around you jogging in the morning, you will too. You can hardly live in New York without doing a couple 5k’s a year. But you have to be a special kind of (good) crazy to be the only one in your town who’s into fitness.
Also. ROTC invited regular students to try a day of PT one time and i went. It was a lot of fun and a nice challenge. If gym class was like that – and there’s no reason why it shouldn’t be, kids can do all of those exercises – that would actually be great.
I like the nutritional product labels. People should know what they’re getting, and what their kids are getting, then making choices.
How many kids do you think are getting fat because they’re eating six bowls a day of “heart healthy” chocolate cheerios and the like?
Police were always fat, right?
[quote]lanchefan1 wrote:
We all know that BMI is a horrible chart to use. Luckily due to HIPPA there won’t be any names attached to the results (which is how they get all kinds of nationwide health care numbers).
But instead of spending money on all of these other items why not direct it at the easiest one?
Put weekly PE back in the schools, my kids right now only get PE every fourth week as a “special”. Why not make it 2-3 days a week and get these kids active again.[/quote]
Welcome to the PWI, HIPPAS is a neo-liberal nazi agenda.
[quote]lanchefan1 wrote:
We all know that BMI is a horrible chart to use. Luckily due to HIPPA there won’t be any names attached to the results (which is how they get all kinds of nationwide health care numbers).
But instead of spending money on all of these other items why not direct it at the easiest one?
Put weekly PE back in the schools, my kids right now only get PE every fourth week as a “special”. Why not make it 2-3 days a week and get these kids active again.[/quote]
Welcome to the PWI, HIPPAS is a neo-liberal nazi agenda.
[quote]Otep wrote:
PE is the stupidest class in school. You want someone elses property taxes to pay for your child to run races and play dodgeball? That doesn’t even have Thomas Jefferson mentioning ‘enlightened citizenry’ to back it up.
More than that, PE doesn’t battle obesity. I had regular PE (2-3x/week) up until high school, and was still 250 by the time I entered the 7th grade (at 6’1"). Doubling that would not have helped. If you disagree, show me evidence.
On the bill itself, I remember Huckabee put into action a bill that had student’s BMI listed on their report card. It was followed by a decline in obesity rates, IIRC, attributed to the fact that a lot of people were fat and didn’t know it, and just having a number there was motivating enough to start moving around more. That seems a better way to combat obesity per se, though if the goal is to just collect data on child obesity, yeah, this one’ll do that.[/quote]
- most stupid*
-Most PE programs are in shambles after decades of people trashing them. Fat kids created kneeling push ups, which turned into no pushups. Fat kids eliminated pull ups. It wasn’t PE that made you fat, it was poor school PE and poor personal choices that made you fat. A proper PE in K-12 will effectively combat obesity, even if its only 2-3X per week. the problem is poor funding and emphasis. no way in hell anyone doing 4-6X per week of real physical activity will hit 250 by 7th grade. watered down de-emphasized PE, sure it could happen. Evidence? Anyone who works out or plays a sport and tries.
[quote]PB-Crawl wrote:
[quote]lanchefan1 wrote:
We all know that BMI is a horrible chart to use. Luckily due to HIPPA there won’t be any names attached to the results (which is how they get all kinds of nationwide health care numbers).
But instead of spending money on all of these other items why not direct it at the easiest one?
Put weekly PE back in the schools, my kids right now only get PE every fourth week as a “special”. Why not make it 2-3 days a week and get these kids active again.[/quote]
Welcome to the PWI, HIPPAS is a neo-liberal nazi agenda.[/quote]
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