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Kids being weighed in school.
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Who always thought that it was embarrassing for the "festively plumped" children to be weighed in front of the whole class?
I felt it was really out of order schools doing this. This is how bullying starts.
Anyone else agree?
I felt it was really out of order schools doing this. This is how bullying starts.
Anyone else agree?
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In primary school & the beginning of secondary, we were always being weighed as part of "science experiments", for lessons.
Guess this is more of a debate thread, so moving it over there.
Not the plumpest though.
But I remember my best mate at the time, his mum wrote a letter in to get him out of lessons that day. I really never understood why schools done it.
we never had the choice.
What's wrong with being short? Or were they short and fat?
the only thing we ever had was some test at primary school where we had to look at a book which had a coloured page of little spots and a number in a different colour and you had to say what the number was. Just to make sure we weren't colour blind.
Then in year 7 we had the TB jab. That's all the medical stuff i've ever had at school.
It can be embarrassing as well. (as was a reactions test we did in Year 9)
But if it's done confidentially in the nurses office, who would know? I think it's a good idea.
The worst was a physics lesson were our teacher made us all all go up to the front of the class and get weighed and he shouted our weight out to everyone. Was awful!! I was an obese child and although it was hugely embarrasing it didn't make me diet. Fair enough weigh kids at school for medical reasons, but I don't think it's fair to do experiments like I've mentioned above.
as long as it was done in private it is fine. But the impression I got from the thread was that kids were queuing up and then the weights were being announced/written on the board.
I personally don't think that schools should be responsible for kids health. Okay they should educate them on it, and do plenty of P.E. but it's not their responsibility. There's also the problem that weight is not an indicator of health, and you might be making kids feel bad without good reason.
I agree with I'm With Stupid too- kids should be educated more on healthy eating.
I did that and got 33% despite weighing 9 stone at the time.
but i can't say i've ever had that problem
but when i lived in new york the school i went to (elementary school ) used to weigh us in front of the class and they said it out loud to the person writing it...this made my friend and i angry when i moved to california my elementary school did it in private