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Some parents of elementary school students in America are receiving letters about their children’s weight. If a child is found to have a weight problem, his parents will get a letter from the school informing them that their child could be overweight.
And what do students call these notes? “Fat letters. ”
Kids already have to put up with being frightened or hurt by other kids at school. Now they also have to protect themselves from insults from the adults who work in those schools.
Don’t they think that parents know whether their children are overweight? Do we really want to encourage a trend we already see: children going on diets? According to a study by Duke University, more than 40% of 9-and 10-year-old girls have gone on a diet.
In Massachusetts, state lawmakers are considering a bill that bans schools from collecting students’ weight information.
Many public school educators actually consider themselves to be more enlightened(开明的)than the rest of us. That’s why they have spent so much time insisting that we must not label children over their academic performance. They had a point. Schools have been putting labels on students since before the invention of blackboards. Students who might have once been labeled “lazy” simply became “uninterested”. Immigrant students who were once considered “limited English proficient(熟练的)”became “English learners”.
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