Pennsylvania School Adds BMI Test for Graduation

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First of all I agree that no one should be denied the chance to graduate due to any physical characteristics. I would also like to inform this University to review the some of the amendments in the constitution before they have a major lawsuit on there hands.

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Jonsenoughins of AL 9:15AM December 08, 2009

This is the most outrageous thing I have ever heard! What makes the difference what size a student is? Are they confusing NMI numbers with IQ these days? Disgusting! Sorry to tell these people, but there's no fat in these people BRAINS. Good lord. Thanks for letting me put another school on my list to boycott.

Jorja of OH 10:29PM November 30, 2009

I can greatly understand the need for positive nutrition in high schoolers. While, I was in high school, I ate tons of food. I played sports and burned it all off. But there were girls who were starving themselves. Wrestlers who were cutting weight to be in a lower weight class so they had advantages. There were heavy people at school too that had trouble adjusting to things like phys ed. They had alternatives to this class though. Not graduating a person or persons for not meeting a physical requirement should be limited to the military or something else such as that. Young people today have an already stunted sense of self since we see Beyonce and David Beckham and think that this is what we're all suposed to look like. I had to take a physical for a job with the state a few years ago, and at 5'9" and 230 pounds, I was labeled as obese. I am not obese, they simply took a weight and measured it against my height. And since I happen to have a lot of dense muscle and a wider frame they labeled me obese. They didn't take into account my muscle mass or my body fat %. This is just another way of discriminating against people as a whole. So that the school can say, "Look at these smart, beautiful kids we have graduating." Instead of just saying, "All of the kids who graduated from our school are ready and prepared for the next step in their lives, wherever those steps take them."
I would not be surprised if they start pulling this in my home state. Since my high school days, Arizona has had one of the worst public school system in the United States. Frequently being at the bottom of the list. Subsequently we also have a dubious achievement in that we also have one of the nation's highest teen pregnancy rates.

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I could completely understand if the school was making everyone take a nutrition class - not only overweight people eat badly, and in some cases, some people are healthy at the weight that doesn't fit the charts.
What will that be like for the people in the class who are singled out, while ignoring all the other possible unhealthy habits others are practicing? It will be a stretch for them to see this as a postive and caring gesture by the school, more likely just another society message that they are considered "not good enough".
Is fat the last place that is socially acceptable to discriminate against? Ironic it is happening at this school.

J.U. of AZ 10:23PM November 24, 2009