Doing something about overweight kids
Mike Huckabee, our former Governor here in Arkansas, put through a program in the schools to measure the body fat of each student and add that to the report card. The idea was that the parent would get some idea how the child was doing physically while they were reading the scores of how they were doing educationally.
Of course the teachers unions were opposed to this. Seem that even something as minor as weighing and reporting TO PARENTS the body fat index of their child was bad because IT MIGHT HURT THE SELF ESTEEM OF THE CHILD.
I don't know what the answer is, but offering more outdoor options to the kids as part of school might be an answer. Maybe a "kids explorer passport" with each "country" stamped as it is visited. Supervised jogging for a mile each day would be logged. Ten miles gets you to Canada, 20 to Greenland and so on. Let the child plan their route, with the idea being to visit as many countries as possible during the school year.
Actually, this could be tied into learning geography as well. Learn a little about the "country" while you are there.
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