Schools sending fat letters...

[Guest ThePunisher]

Anyone think that schools are bullying parents and their kids by sending home letters notifying that the kid is overweight. I understand that schools play a role in preparing healthy lunches ( Michelle Obama lunches ) that students are not eating in favor of sack lunches brought from home, and offering Physical Education classes and sports to help with physical fitness, but is it the schools business of notification or their doctor in dealing with a child's obesity?

Schools could share some blame by cutting Physical Education time from the curriculum, but this Is now about the Obama Marxist agenda of controlling people's lives. IMHO, this is nothing more than bullying from the commie government that is in control. They are supposedly trying to stop bullying in schools, unless of course it's bullying by the commie government. Edited September 5, 2013 by ThePunisher

[TrickyNicky]

Meh, bullying, no. Wasting time and money, absolutely.

Like if I'm a parent I'm going to need a letter from my kids school to let me know I'm raising a fatty? (Said the man wearing size 46 pants)

I'd rather they take the money used for these letters and have it used doing just about anything else.


Don't really see what this has to do with Obama though?

[Jesse]

I know, if you send your kid to school with a snack like a chocolate cookie my childs school will not let them eat it. They told us is wasnt fair for other kids to to watch them eat it while they eat apples.

[UncleJak]

I know, if you send your kid to school with a snack like a chocolate cookie my childs school will not let them eat it. They told us is wasnt fair for other kids to to watch them eat it while they eat apples.

I cannot help what other people do, only what I do. Sounds like yhe schools need to mind their own business.

sent barefoot from the hills of Tennessee

[Daniel]

Never heard of this happening. 

[Spots]

I know, if you send your kid to school with a snack like a chocolate cookie my childs school will not let them eat it. They told us is wasnt fair for other kids to to watch them eat it while they eat apples.

My letter to that school would be unprintable on this forum. People, includint Doctors, goverment officals, and school officals need to mind their own damn business. I have two sisters who teach middle school, and one of them quit to teach my nieces and nephews at home. Thats how screwed this system is. Everyone who can should pull their children from school in favor of home schooling.

Tapatalk ate my spelling.

[Raoul]

I cannot help what other people do, only what I do. Sounds like yhe schools need to mind their own business.

sent barefoot from the hills of Tennessee

If only they could.

All systems take federal dollars with all those bloody strings attached.

[Guest Riciticky]

I would like to weigh the teachers. I know because I pick my grandkids up every day

[vontar]

I know, if you send your kid to school with a snack like a chocolate cookie my childs school will not let them eat it. They told us is wasnt fair for other kids to to watch them eat it while they eat apples.

  That is when they need to be reminded that life isn't fair.

 

Back in the 80s when I went to school.  I was the first kid on the bus and last one dropped off if they want to talk about what is and isn't fair.

 

On the bus at 6:15 a.m. and not home until about 4:30 p.m.  That made for long ass days.

 

I was at the school about 7:15, had to wait for class to start at 8.  school let out about 3 ish and I had another hour and a half to get home.

 

I got to ride the bus up and down about the longest route they had.

 

Yea, I was dam hungry when I got off that bus.  There was good reason I took my lunch to school, otherwise I would not have made it.  Considering my lunch time was about 11 a.m..

[UncleJak]

Wanted to add that the school my daughter attends has 85% plus of the students on free and reduced lunch with all school fees waived. I pay cash.
Sorry for being off topic but this is just another reason I despise the school system amd welfare systems.

sent barefoot from the hills of Tennessee

[Guest nra37922]

Let the kids play that will burn off the fat.  Kids cannot even go home and play outdoors anymore.  So for the children we need to remove those elements that are curtailing their ability to be safely outside...

[Murgatroy]

I think my favorite one was last year when the school sent me a letter telling me that if I wanted my daughter to be insured at the school, I had to pay the premium. However, if she was on free or reduced lunch, they would waive that fee. If I wanted her to play sports, I had to pay that premium as well, unless of course, she was on free or reduced lunch.

 

I have lost count of the crap she has brought home where they want money from me.

 

I am a member of the PTA/PTO and it is a joke. The meetings are a bunch of folks standing around patting one another on the back. The 'big' thing last year was spending $2000 to get the 'premium' status of a government funded online program. 

 

The one last week was good, a fund raiser, with that magazine that has the tins of cookies and the smoked meats. There wasn't a thing in there for less than $20. But hey, if the kid sells 20 items, she gets to go to a special all day party at the school. That resulted in a nasty email to the Superintendent. 

 

As a tax paying, attentive parent, the schools make me sick, but something we need to understand is that [i]we[/i] are the minority now. We are getting the government we deserve with the majority vote now.

 

That is what makes me the sickest. 

 

I am a taxpaying voter.

 

The majority now isn't.

[vontar]

I remember when I was school, we didn't have to take a laundry list of supplies to the teacher at the beginning of the year.

 

School provided the books/desks/paper towels/soap and toilet papper

 

Parents supplied paper and pencils.

 

I remember the school doing some fund raising events which my dad never let me take part int.  He said the school was trying to turn us into door to door salesmen. 

[Sam1]

school sends fat letters out, the teachers would get a letter from me explaining how we need to have a preacher monitor their sex sessions in person for the good of the community.

Edited September 6, 2013 by Sam1

[Guest ThePunisher]

Never heard of this happening.

It's happening mostly in states that have adopted the core curriculum where they allow fuzzy math (3x4=9 or 11) so long as student can explain how they came up with the answer. I believe 45 states have adopted the core curriculum.

[Grand Torino]

Anyone got a copy of these "fat letters" for us to see?

 

 

And do they skinny letters for these anorexic looking kids as well?

Edited September 6, 2013 by Grand Torino

[blueghost]

Let the kids play that will burn off the fat. Kids cannot even go home and play outdoors anymore. So for the children we need to remove those elements that are curtailing their ability to be safely outside...

Kids cannot go home and play? Seriously? Since when? Oh I forgot, the idiot box (tv), playstations, xbox, and the wii's of the world are preventing that.

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[TMF]

I know, if you send your kid to school with a snack like a chocolate cookie my childs school will not let them eat it. They told us is wasnt fair for other kids to to watch them eat it while they eat apples.

These words enrage me.

[Raoul]

It's happening mostly in states that have adopted the core curriculum where they allow fuzzy math (3x4=9 or 11) so long as student can explain how they came up with the answer. I believe 45 states have adopted the core curriculum.

 

Actually the "core curriculum" is a government program that establishes a set of benchmarks that students must meet during the school year throughout the various grade levels.

In exchange for federal dollars schools have to teach to the curriculum and test accordingly.

Governor Haslam accepted the program in exchange for the money.

The problem with the program is the way student achievement is measured and the way teachers are ordered to teach.

 

The biggest problem with schools are the free lunch parents who make up a majority. They typically do not support the kids, make them do their homework, or even give a rats ass if the kids make it to school.

You can bitch about the schools and teachers all you want, and I know there are some crappy teachers, but we've reached a point where the majority of parents are more interested in an Obmama phone than getting the kids to class, making sure their homework is done, or sometimes even feeding them.

[RobertNashville]

I'm trying to figure out why anyone would let their kids attend public schools anymore?

[UncleJak]

I'm trying to figure out why anyone would let their kids attend public schools anymore?

I'm looking into the alternatives now.

sent barefoot from the hills of Tennessee

[Dennis1209]

Sorry to go off topic but, can anyone name just "one" area in our lives the government doesn't have a hand in and your paying for it one way or another? Just "one"!

 

I contend there's no area they're not involved in and I'll back up my claim with a free, I say again, "free" cyber lobster and steak dinner complete with wine and all the trimmings for anyone who can come up with just "one" area they're not involved in.

 

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[tnguy]

The government can have something to say on this when they stop taking our money to subsidise foods that make people fat.

[tnguy]

I remember when I was school, we didn't have to take a laundry list of supplies to the teacher at the beginning of the year.

 

School provided the books/desks/paper towels/soap and toilet papper

 

Parents supplied paper and pencils.

 

I remember the school doing some fund raising events which my dad never let me take part int.  He said the school was trying to turn us into door to door salesmen. 

 

Your Dad is a smart man.

Edited September 6, 2013 by tnguy

[tnguy]

I'm looking into the alternatives now.

sent barefoot from the hills of Tennessee

 

Homeschooling has a lot of resources and information available. It's not just a bunch of religious nutjobs locking their kids in the basement.