Fox News - To combat childhood obesity, every Arkansas public school student this month will be receiving two report cards in the mail: one assessing them on math, science and social studies, and the other grading them on their weight.
"We're going to know how many are overweight, how many are underweight, how many are normal weight," said Margo Bushmiaer, health services coordinator for the Little Rock School District.
As soon as next week, each parent will receive their child's ranking. The report cards also come with helpful health information, which aims to help parents make better meal choices for their kids, as well as reiterating the importance of exercise in everyone's life.
Across the country school districts cut funding for physical education classes and change those curriculum's to low impact, boring activities where there's no possibility for a student to get hurt lest they sue the school. We also cut funding for sports programs again and again taking away yet another physical activity these kids could be involved in.
Then we buy our kids computers and video games and DVD players which encourage them to sit in darkened rooms to all hours of the morning.
And what do we do when our kids start to get fat? We don't take away their video games and enroll them in little league. We don't limit their computer time and take them out to the driveway to shoot hoops.
Heck no, we give them a report card telling them how fat they are. And that's how we deal with problems in this country. Our kids get fat, we grade them on it. We don't confront the problem directly by rousting the kids off the couch, cooking them healthy meals and enrolling them in sports or other physically-challenging activities, we pass the buck to the kids themselves with these little cards telling them that they're fat and they'd better do something about it.
What a joke.