Jubal covered a bit of this nonsense earlier: School Map Plan To Control Obesity. I'm struck with how absolutely ludicrous this is -- using educational funding to address issues that begin and end in the home.
Once again, the nanny state assumes responsibilities that parents apparently abdicate -- a classically liberal exercise, and more social engineering. Where in the Board of Education's charter does it say it can operate a $40 seminar on a school day and invite a 17-year old as a speaker? Will this "test drive of the eight-point federal School Health Index" actually test anything? Will any of the attending "school board members, district administrators, teachers, parents, students and school nurses" actually measure and analyze results (assuming there will be any) against the index?
Does anyone possibly believe this exercise can do one bit of good? Apparently Messrs. Bachmann and Chorliss can -- and if they fail, will they need to go find real jobs? Or do they just get Fs?
Since the Teachers Union won't allow testing and evaluation of their tax-supported membership, how did this one slip through the cracks? Will the schools be any more successful for reducing the weight of the student body as they are responsible for badly educating it? Will it be tested? And can the Register publish the results? Now, that's a set of figures I've love to see.
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