BMI Report Card

[MxAxC-_ATTACK]

I agree with Raerae, I mean come on. its not hard to pack a lunch... my mom(now single mother) works from 7pm to 7am and my brother goes to school at 730, she gets home at 7:20 and makes him a lunch , it doesn't even take 10 minutes. His lunch consists of a bottle of water, sandwich and fruit. possibly a granola bar.

my mom made my lunch when I was in grade school too,
when my parents got divorced (i was 15)
I chose to live with my dad, He certainly wasn't going to make me lunch, he didn't know the first thing about it, id end up with lug-nuts or something car related in my lunch. He did leave me money though( At 16 I was allowed to go off campus for lunch) I usually ended up with a sandwich from the cafe across the street if I had time, if not I did get a soda and some other type of junky snack food from the snack cart on campus(or If I really wanted something from the mall,.Id save up my money for the week and skip the lunch and eat a decent breakfast!! sneaky.. i know) . I could have chose a healthier item (and I knew that I should have been) but sometimes hey.. you just want something sweet! haha on those days i also chose to walk home from school 3 miles. I thought it evened things out .lol .

but yeah if your kids obese.. dont try and blame it on the schools..
It infuriates me that no one takes responsibility for their own actions anymore!! like the girls who tried to sue mcdonalds for making them fat.. hey dumbass.. mcdonalds didnt sit you in a chair and shove that Big-mac-attack down your throat. you paid for it,. and ate it knowing full well it was junk..

Times are changing for sure

I cant believe I have been out of High school for 7 years... damn,

 

[Raerae]

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Originally Posted by Ladybug10678 , nor can most of the obese children in this country.

They might be able to roll though, like the girl who ate the gum in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and turned into the plum!

 

[MxAxC-_ATTACK]

"Violet!.. your turning violet, violet!"

one of my all time favorites. lol

 

[Shimmer]

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Originally Posted by Raerae What ever happened to the sack lunch? 1/2 an apple Peanut-Butter and Jelly Sammich And a juice box?

That's actually pretty much what my kids get. Only it's ham n cheese and baked lays with a juice box, but whatever. I won't let them eat the crap the school serves.

 

[Beauty Mark]

For some reason, when I was growing up, it was cool to buy lunch at school. I don't know why; the food was disgusting and a packed lunch meant you could sit and enjoy yourself a bit longer, because you didn't have wait in line.

Then again, these were the same people who chose to eat at McDonald's or Burger King (places that they had to drive to) during our senior year open lunch when we have this great open air market that had such delicious food for such cheap prices.

 

[Raerae]

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Originally Posted by Beauty Mark For some reason, when I was growing up, it was cool to buy lunch at school. I don't know why; the food was disgusting and a packed lunch meant you could sit and enjoy yourself a bit longer, because you didn't have wait in line.

No i remember it being "cool" as well. In retrospect I wonder how many of those kids, now turned adults, have weight issues =p

Haha... I still remember the days when they served like rib sammiche's, and it was that meat patty pressed into the shape of some ribs, slathered with BBQ sauce LOL. So delish :roll"

 

[Shimmer]

My daughter and my oldest son split the lunch making chore. They alternate nights making them. There's no reason a parent of a child in 4th grade or older should bethe one making lunch. Provide the materials, show them what needs to be done and make that part of the nightly routine.

Lazy parenting pisses me off.

 

[giz2000]

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Originally Posted by Raerae What ever happened to the sack lunch? 1/2 an apple Peanut-Butter and Jelly Sammich And a juice box?

Ahhhhh.....memories.....

 

[d_flawless]

that is sad to think schools think they have this right.

what's sadder though is this obesity is something that in america, we do need to look out for. and it starts at a young age. health is the issue though, not weight, but look at the ideas this gives young children.

i was reading an article in people magazine about child obesity and there was this 6 year old girl in there who weighed 120 lbs. yeah, i weigh 5 lbs more than that, and i'm 19 years old. and healthy. i mean, wtf...THAT is a serious problem. and obviously there is something going wrong in her home for this to have happened. maybe the schools see it as a form of abuse...i don't know, but obesity is an issue. if it needs to be adressed in schools, then parents need to pay more attention, because it obviously passed them.

 

[lemurian]

This whole thing makes me wonder if it isn't the pharmeceutical industry behind it... like that Teenscreen thing, where they diagnose every kid with some mental disorder so they can be prescribed drugs. Maybe they're going to start putting fat kids on statins now I wouldn't be surprised..

Anyway, I think it's all wrong, not only for the kids' self-esteem but because schools aren't even coming close to what they're supposed to be doing in the first place, which is educating, and now they're saddled with this.

 

[GalleyGirl]

Maybe if they focused on PE more, they wouldn't have to worry about kids' BMI index level.

 

[Beauty Mark]

PE doesn't provide adequate exercise, even if they had the kids run the entire time. In elementary school, we had it twice on a 6-day cycle for about 45 min. In high school, we had it for two quarters for 50 minutes.

 

[ilovexnerdsx]

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Originally Posted by Beauty Mark PE doesn't provide adequate exercise, even if they had the kids run the entire time. In elementary school, we had it twice on a 6-day cycle for about 45 min. In high school, we had it for two quarters for 50 minutes.

i agree. PE (in my experience) just causes kids to dread the class, and therefore working out. running has always been considered a punishment, and with the idea that excericise is a punishment, kids will never get in the right habits.

that's besides the fact that i have muscle problems and can't do strenuous excericise without nearing death, but my PE teacher made me lift weights and do everything anyway. and THATS besides the fact my PE teacher was extremely overweight, wtf??

i think food and nutrition classes at an early age would go a lot further.

 

[lemurian]

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Originally Posted by Beauty Mark PE doesn't provide adequate exercise, even if they had the kids run the entire time. In elementary school, we had it twice on a 6-day cycle for about 45 min. In high school, we had it for two quarters for 50 minutes.

When I was in school we had PE daily for an entire period. I dreaded it because they just had us play competative sports, which I think is unnecessary. It would be great for kids to have to get off their butt at least 30 minutes per day and have a real aerobic workout without the humiliation of having to play dodgeball :/

But again, I'd still prefer my kid to be learning something.

 

[ilovexnerdsx]

i agree with that^^^ too. i HATE competition, and it would be so embarrassing to be picked last, or have the game riding on how good you could throw, and then totally screwing up. throwing a ball every couple minutes doesnt provide more excercise than normal daily life. i think aerobics would be a lot better.

 

[Raerae]

I HATED PE haha...

All they had were the oversized like extra large 1 size fits all shirts that never fit me right lol...

And you had your last name across your chest!

Nothing like getting all gross and sweaty during the middle of the day, that alone made me NOT wanna exercise. No way I was gonna look gross and nasty for the rest of the day.

 

[Shimmer]

Competition is a good thing.
Kids need to learn, and to know, they can't win everything. They also need to know how to cope with losing.

PE fails, generally, because teachers don't force the students to mingle with each other.

 

[lemurian]

^^^ I would agree with that if it were academic competition, but I'm afraid that sports have no bearing on real life, unless you're aiming to become a professional athlete, in which case that's probably all you'll ever have going for you

 

[MAC_Whore]

I agree that people do expect the schools to do a lot. Too much. I don't think people should look to the school to diagnose and treat the problem, but if the school could contribute to learning about the concepts of healthy living (to include BMI) that would be great.

What would be helpful is if kids spent part of their gym classes learning about healthy living, as it a more well-rounded (no pun intended) ciriculum than just exercise. While exercise is important, they could also teach kids that it isn't the only part of the picture. There are also healthy ways to eat. BMI can tell you if you need to improve in those areas. If the schools can educate the kids and get them interested, then the interest and perhaps some literature brought home to the parents will help. Let's face it, there are a lot of half-assed parents out there who need a clue.

I have to agree about making the lunches. It really doesn't take that much time, it really comes down to the parent making it a priority or not. I cringe when I think of the school provided food of my youth. My mom made some gooood lunches!

Side note: My mom used to write me notes on the outside of my orange or banana like, "Have a good day, sweetie". Funny, huh?

 

[Shimmer]

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Originally Posted by lemurian ^^^ I would agree with that if it were academic competition, but I'm afraid that sports have no bearing on real life, unless you're aiming to become a professional athlete, in which case that's probably all you'll ever have going for you

I wholly disagree.

Teamwork is a skill learned by sports.
Tactical thinking is a skill learned by playing sports.
Dedication.
Strategy.
Learning to work with different people in different situations.


Academic competition is important and encouraged, for sure, but by no means should sports and their benefits be dismissed.