Posted on 05/10/2007 3:00:54 PM PDT by Baladas
Four times during the school year in Campbell County, Wyo., the school sends report cards home. Anxious parents and worried students are provided with the typical grading categories -- academic performance, attendance and a work ethic score.
But here in Gillette, there's an additional grade that has some families up in arms.
It's called the body mass index, or BMI, a calculation based on height and weight that indicates whether your kid is too fat. The school chooses the word "overweight." If your child scores too high, it's the fitness equivalent of a bad grade. When Taylor Barbour came home with a BMI score of 32, seven points over the "normal range," his mother, Rosie Barbour, was none too pleased. Her anger was directed not at her 12-year-old son but at the school.
"It just doesn't have any place in the school," said Barbour. "It's fine if you want to teach them how to eat healthy, and make better choices during health class, but I don't think giving them BMI on their report card" is the answer.
'The Strong Kids Club' On top of that, the school district sent a letter in the mail inviting Taylor -- and 172 other kids with high BMI scores -- to join an exercise program three times of week. It's called the Strong Kids Club and came free to his family, with a promise that "it will be fun."
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Stating that homeschooling is superior in **not** a personal attack. It has **nothing** to do with you personally or with your neighborhood.
If you do not homeschool, I can not control your feelings of being attacked, or your feeling or opinions regarding me. Only you are in charge of your feelings.
For a few decades, it was homeschoolers who were always on the defensive. They were the people who were continually justifying why homeschooling was not going to hurt their child.
Well....we now have a small army of adults who were completely or mostly homeschooled. They are doing very well (as a group) in life compared to their government schooled contemporaries.
It really is becoming self-evident. Homeschooling **is** the superior way to raise a child. Again, I can not control your feelings about this. Only you can do that.
all good points, and really - any good gym teacher should know how to keep a balance between the activities to appeal to the different interests of the kids.
The point I was trying to make is that there exists a strange bias among many educators who disapprove of athletics that emphasis on sports means deemphasis on academics (the whole “dumb jock” stereotyps)
And also...that teachers who coach athletics are somehow inferior or have their priorities messed up.
Often the opposite is true...many top students are athletes, and many administrators will say their good athletic coaches are also their best classroom teachers.
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You have just called me a jerk.
Now that **is** a personal attack. However, unlike one particular government defender on this board, I am not going to hit the abuse button.
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Hopefully, other parents will begin to notice that homeschoolers are not likely to be fat. Hopefully, they will begin to see the differences between the rolly pollies at the school bus stop and the fit and trim homeschoolers.
If it is pointed out to them, they too will see it.
actually, what people are seeing is a so-called homeschooling advocate with no manners whatsoever who strives to insult fellow Freepers.
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Strawman alert!
I have never said all government schoolers are fat.
Saying that parents should take a good look at the fat kids waiting at the school bus stops is NOT saying or implying that **ALL** government schooled children are fat.
“You have just called me a jerk.
Now that **is** a personal attack. However, unlike one particular government defender on this board, I am not going to hit the abuse button.”
How observant of you!
You are absolutely correct~
And, I did so because of your continued assertions that children who are not homeschooled do not live in ideal households and must be institutionalized.
Your words were:
“It is a shame that many children are not in ideal homes and must be institutionalized.”
I FEEL (yep...my feelings are) that this is something that someone who is a jerk would say. And you continue to say it over and over.
Additionally, if you will notice in my other posts, I have asserted that you reflect poorly on the homeschooling movement in general.
This movement, is, in my opinion a positive and wonderful option for children across the country.
How sad for them that you are such a negative representation of this movement.
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This is a **personal** insult followed by a misunderstanding.
I can not control your feelings. If you feel insulted by the statement that I have never met a fat homeschooler, I can NOT control that.
The **TRUTH ** is I have never met a fat homeschooler. I haven’t!
What do you want me to say? Do want me to lie as say that I have so that your feelings of being insulted ( which I have no control over) won’t be bruised?
That isn’t “all” you said and you know it.
And you do it thread after thread -and all you are doing is alienating people.
If you truly were a homeschool advocate you would concentrate on promoting the positive aspects of homeschooling instead of trying to tear other people down.
“actually, what people are seeing is a so-called homeschooling advocate with no manners whatsoever who strives to insult fellow”
The Freeper Scotswife did not assert that you were insulting people regarding the “fat or not fat homeschooler” issue.
She just said you were striving to insult people.
Saying that your words are ONLY insulting if people FEEL that they are insulting is a STRAWMAN argument.
Happy Mother’s Day to you.
I am done for now.
If I have any brains (at all) I won’t be back.
I probably don’t have any brains though ;-)
Thank you for admitting that you have called me a jerk.
So...what do you want me to do? Do you want me to lie?
Do you want me to say that I have met a fat homeschooler when I haven’t? Do you want me to do this so that you won’t **feel** insulted?
Do you want me to lie, and say homeschooling is **not** the superior way to raise a child when I know that it is? I should do this so you won’t feel insulted?
Obviously, if home life is not ideal, it is very likely that those parents or parent will not have the means or ability to homeschool. What do you want me to say? Do you want me to say that they should be homeschooled anyway? I don’t believe that, and to say it would be a lie. There is only one option left for these children, that I can think of: Institutionalized schooling.
Nope.
Simple.
Show some respect.
Happy Mother’s Day to you too :)
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How should I state, “I have never met a fat homeschooler”, in a way that you and others would consider respectful?
I doubt that I could.
Sad
folks?
or is it a “folk”
I would say the culprit is usually the same on all these threads.
HOW DARE you...............you have crossed the line here lady with your personal attacks.
As to your idiocy about weight and children who are not home schooled - you're the one who continually talks about her own weight problem and how hard it is to keep it under control, to the point of only 1,200 calories per day....I call that projection.
Homeschooling **is** the superior way to raise a child.
is ONLY the personal opinion of wintertime.
Homeschooling is great, no doubt about it, HOWEVER, it is not opinion, but rather FACT, it is not for everyone. Every parent makes the decision they feel is in the best interest of their family in regard to the education of their children. There is no such thing as "perfection" in the choices, just what the parents have determined to be best. Some of us choose public school, some of us choose private school, and some of us choose homeschool.........NONE of us are wrong.
Gabz, my stating that children from less than ideal homes will need to be institutionalized in NOT a personal attack. It is plain fact. It is darn hard to homeschool if conditions are not ideal: Health, having a stay-at-home mom, adequate education of the parents, sufficient household income.
Also,,,,This statement does NOT say that only children from less than ideal homes are institutionalized. Obviously, with 40 plus million children in government schools, most of these kids come from very functional families.
(As to your idiocy about weight and children who are not home schooled - you’re the one who continually talks about her own weight problem and how hard it is to keep it under control, to the point of only 1,200 calories per day....I call that projection.)(Gabz)
Gabz, the informal term for the above is “armchair psychology”.
It is not idiocy for me to say that I **personally** have NOT met a fat homeschooler who has been homeschooled from the beginning. It is a fact. The TRUTH **is** I haven’t! What do you want me to do? Lie? And say that I have?
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