Over a month ago Valerie Bonham Moon sent me a link to The hidden learning opportunity. I finally got around to reading the post today. Sandy of Junkfood Science write about a typical government school response to normal child behavior:
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A fourth grader missed her last day of school after being suspended because she shared a lip balm used for fever blisters with two classmates. The school has a no tolerance policy when it comes to drugs in school.
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It is a good post with some thoughtful observations.
I don't remember ever reading Junkfood Science before. I've added it to my list of blogs to check out. There are a lot of good posts about children, health and government. Here are a couple of the recent posts:
Lessons for the youngest school children — what can make you weak, diseased, fat, and deviant reports:
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Between February and May, 2001, an experiment was conducted on nineteen underprivileged minority teen boys incarcerated in a residential school by the Florida court system. They were made to participate in a psychological experiment and without the fully informed consent of their parents. The experiment was not conducted by a medical doctor, nor a licensed practitioner in child development or psychology.
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Sandy writes that 450 schools have reported administrating the same program. Too many school officials seem to think children are theirs to do what ever they think best. There is little regard for the rights and responsibilities the parents have for their children.
In Weight report cards for school children — A namby pamby or fat-headed policy? Sandy starts with:
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The proposals to eradicate fat children from the UK and U.S. that have been pouring from health officials have become so overridden by irrationality, that there’s no point in cataloguing them anymore. The lack of evidence for their necessity, the biological implausibilities of their solutions, and the body of evidence showing every one of them doesn’t work and puts all size children at risk for harm — is, or should be, known by medical and nutrition professionals who work with children. But these programs for compulsory “healthy eating” (as some define it) and exercise in children, BMI screenings, and “nutrition education” to teach weight management to little kids aren’t about facts or for their health.
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