Don't Call My Kid Fat
Parents who were at one time getting reports home from school that their children were obese have decided that's not something they want to see, or know, anymore, at least in Massachusetts. According to Jess Bidgood at The New York Times, "The state Public Health Council voted Wednesday to stop automatically sending letters home with public school students about their weight." The state is one of 21 that collects info on kids' body mass indexes , those intials we've all come to hate, BMI, but now parents are saying it's hurting their kids' self esteem and becoming fodder for bullies. Called the "fat letters," parents have been receiving them in the Bay State since 2010. The testing, though, will continue in grades 1, 4, 7 and 10, Bidgood reports. "I think [the BMI letters] are an overreaching by the Department of Public Health," Lyons told the Daily News. "I've had numerous complaints from parents considering the imp...