Posted on 05/25/2014 11:21:36 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
School boards have little power these days if they ant state and federal $$$
More like needs a good meal.
This is ridiculous.
But so is the author’s thinking:
Who could have possibly predicted that a group of curious pre-teens, having been handed mysterious notes for their parents carrying instructions not to open them, would go ahead and open them anyway?
If I were teaching 8-year-olds, yes, I would expect them to follow instructions. Talk about low expectations for students....
she is not fat
and any mom worth her salt knows that growing kids chunk out right before they grow about 3-4 inches taller overnight.
People who don’t understand math shouldn’t be allowed to use a BMI chart, lord.
The BMI should not be used as a stand-alone tool to diagnose individuals, anyone who thinks it should be needs remedial math. Anyone who thinks it was designed for such a purpose needs to be shuffled off to an occupation where they’re not allowed to make decisions about other people’s health.
The BMI is a statistical measure - it is most useful when used for analysis involving a sample population, or when used along-side several other correlative tools to draw inferences and point out avenues for further examination about an individual. It is not, in and of itself, a useful diagnostic tool and should NEVER be used as the sole means of determining a course of medical intervention.
Illustrative example - I am enough of a statistical outlier as an individual that the BMI, if horribly misused as a stand-alone tool to evaluate an individual, would claim that I need to reach 0% body fat (which would be lethal to a human being) AND somehow figure out how to lose another 30 pounds or so before I reached a “healthy” BMI range - presumably by a below-the-knee amputation.
Repeat after me - the BMI is a statistical tool, extreme care must be taken when drawing conclusions about individuals by using this tool.
The BMI does not offer useful correlations for people on the extremes of the height spectrum, it does not measure actual body fat percentage, it does not measure bone density (which varies remarkably between populations, ethnic groups, families and individuals), further the BMI is a CORRELATIVE tool and results should not be misconstrued to imply that BMI is a causative factor that should be modified let alone the sole factor (note the obesity paradox).
People too dim to understand those essential concepts shouldn’t be providing medical advice - they’ll kill people if anyone were stupid enough to listen.
But the other thing is when you go here -
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/guidelines/obesity/BMI/bmicalc.htm
and enter her weight and height, she comes back with a BMI of 19.3, i.e. normal
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