Addressing Relevant Concerns at School

SOMEWHERE IN AMERICA, its unimportant where, there is a public school which measures the student's body mass index, and, if any student has a percentage of body fat above a certain level, a "fat alert" letter is sent home to the parents of the fat student. this is not made up, this is really happening. There have been a few parents who have not been happy to receive such a letter, not happy to be told that their child is fat, wehn they themsleves are perfectly happy with the way things are. And you can understand their point of view. The question is; why would a public school do this? The health of children is the responsibility of the parents, not the schools, true? Maybe the idea got tossed around at a school board meeting, some parents liked it, lobbied for it, and maybe somebody found out that state or federal funding was somehow, strangely available for body mass indexing, and the rest is history. If so, thsi might be yet another case of government spending which might oughta be given some scrutiny by the taxpayers, or somebody looking out for them. I remember being given a tasty sugar cube at school, standing in a long line of kids, in first grade. Had to've been 1961-62, about the time the polio vaccine came out, so that must'be been what it was. I relly enjoyed that. I think everybody did. Also, I remembr being given a heart examination in ninth grade, along with all my classmates, but I seem to recall that a note from a parent was necessary in advance. Probably a good idea there. Who knows whose idea the heart exam was. All well and good. But if you consider all the indications we have, convincing indications, that there are problems in teh United States in the public schools, in terms of providing students a necessary education, it makes you wonder how we can afford the body mass index project, how we can afford the time and resources for it, when there are so many other obvious, and seemingly more relevant, concerns to address, such as reading and writing, math, science, and history, to name a few.