OT: Gay History in California Public Schools

[Shadowfax]

[quote=bearishgurl]Honestly, I think learning about taking something from each food group every day and how much energy expenditure it takes to lose a pound as well as balancing a checkbook and the study of the cost of carrying credit card debt (or a car loan) should be mandatory subjects in a high school curriculum.

These are life skills that would be of GREAT BENEFIT if mastered at this age and the vast majority of parents do not try to teach them. Why is this so? Because many parents don’t understand this subject matter themselves. And, even if they do, they are NOT leading their kids “by example” :=][/quote]

Agreed. I think it’d be a great class to have every child (with a dr’s approval) run for 30 minutes on a treadmill at a 7 min mile pace (or somewhere thereabouts) and then read off the calories burned. Then tour the room and look at how many calories are in each popular *single sized* junk food item–let’s say each kid would burn approximately 350 calories on that treatmill run. Then walk over to a large cheese pizza (which many teenagers will eat in its entirety in one sitting) and see that it contains 1500+ calories. Hm, that’s a lot of running to nullify that pizza. Then do a bag of doritos, supersized fries… compare with fresh carrots or low fat protein source.

See, Math, science, health and life skills all in one class! An educational bargain!

Let’s not even get into how much less you’d pay if you shopped for fresh food grown locally or the decrease in health expenses for treating the result of years of bad eating….

[bearishgurl]

[quote=briansd1] . . . Kids are not allowed to snack on junk at innappropriate times. . . [/quote]

Unfortunately, many families of today are beset by odd work hours and overscheduling and cannot eat together regularly.

At the bare minimum, a 14 year-old should be aware that eating chips and drinking Coke while texting is hazardous to their health, that 3500 calories have to be burned in order to lose one pound and that a 10 oz bag of Lays has 1500 calories.

And yes, I’ve seen kids eat this in one sitting, waiting for a ride while texting (not my kid, lol)!

[bearishgurl]

[quote=briansd1] . . . Kids are not allowed to snack on junk at innappropriate times. . . [/quote]

Unfortunately, many families of today are beset by odd work hours and overscheduling and cannot eat together regularly.

At the bare minimum, a 14 year-old should be aware that eating chips and drinking Coke while texting is hazardous to their health, that 3500 calories have to be burned in order to lose one pound and that a 10 oz bag of Lays has 1500 calories.

And yes, I’ve seen kids eat this in one sitting, waiting for a ride while texting (not my kid, lol)!

[bearishgurl]

[quote=briansd1] . . . Kids are not allowed to snack on junk at innappropriate times. . . [/quote]

Unfortunately, many families of today are beset by odd work hours and overscheduling and cannot eat together regularly.

At the bare minimum, a 14 year-old should be aware that eating chips and drinking Coke while texting is hazardous to their health, that 3500 calories have to be burned in order to lose one pound and that a 10 oz bag of Lays has 1500 calories.

And yes, I’ve seen kids eat this in one sitting, waiting for a ride while texting (not my kid, lol)!

[bearishgurl]

[quote=briansd1] . . . Kids are not allowed to snack on junk at innappropriate times. . . [/quote]

Unfortunately, many families of today are beset by odd work hours and overscheduling and cannot eat together regularly.

At the bare minimum, a 14 year-old should be aware that eating chips and drinking Coke while texting is hazardous to their health, that 3500 calories have to be burned in order to lose one pound and that a 10 oz bag of Lays has 1500 calories.

And yes, I’ve seen kids eat this in one sitting, waiting for a ride while texting (not my kid, lol)!

[bearishgurl]

[quote=briansd1] . . . Kids are not allowed to snack on junk at innappropriate times. . . [/quote]

Unfortunately, many families of today are beset by odd work hours and overscheduling and cannot eat together regularly.

At the bare minimum, a 14 year-old should be aware that eating chips and drinking Coke while texting is hazardous to their health, that 3500 calories have to be burned in order to lose one pound and that a 10 oz bag of Lays has 1500 calories.

And yes, I’ve seen kids eat this in one sitting, waiting for a ride while texting (not my kid, lol)!

[bearishgurl]

I routinely drive by a particular high school some mornings at the time all the kids are walking into school. Here, the students wear uniforms and nearly EVERY female, tall or short, appears to weigh in excess of 150 lbs and nearly EVERY male, tall or short, appears to weigh in excess of 185 lbs. A few students appear to weigh over 250 lbs! In my mind, there’s something terribly wrong with this picture.

And no, this is not my kid’s school, but the same issues also prevail in their school.

Pre-teen and teen obesity is clearly at an epidemic level. I totally blame the parents for lack of supervision, keeping lots of snack food around the house and giving their kids ample money to burn every day instead of packing a nutritious lunch.

[bearishgurl]

I routinely drive by a particular high school some mornings at the time all the kids are walking into school. Here, the students wear uniforms and nearly EVERY female, tall or short, appears to weigh in excess of 150 lbs and nearly EVERY male, tall or short, appears to weigh in excess of 185 lbs. A few students appear to weigh over 250 lbs! In my mind, there’s something terribly wrong with this picture.

And no, this is not my kid’s school, but the same issues also prevail in their school.

Pre-teen and teen obesity is clearly at an epidemic level. I totally blame the parents for lack of supervision, keeping lots of snack food around the house and giving their kids ample money to burn every day instead of packing a nutritious lunch.

[bearishgurl]

I routinely drive by a particular high school some mornings at the time all the kids are walking into school. Here, the students wear uniforms and nearly EVERY female, tall or short, appears to weigh in excess of 150 lbs and nearly EVERY male, tall or short, appears to weigh in excess of 185 lbs. A few students appear to weigh over 250 lbs! In my mind, there’s something terribly wrong with this picture.

And no, this is not my kid’s school, but the same issues also prevail in their school.

Pre-teen and teen obesity is clearly at an epidemic level. I totally blame the parents for lack of supervision, keeping lots of snack food around the house and giving their kids ample money to burn every day instead of packing a nutritious lunch.

[bearishgurl]

I routinely drive by a particular high school some mornings at the time all the kids are walking into school. Here, the students wear uniforms and nearly EVERY female, tall or short, appears to weigh in excess of 150 lbs and nearly EVERY male, tall or short, appears to weigh in excess of 185 lbs. A few students appear to weigh over 250 lbs! In my mind, there’s something terribly wrong with this picture.

And no, this is not my kid’s school, but the same issues also prevail in their school.

Pre-teen and teen obesity is clearly at an epidemic level. I totally blame the parents for lack of supervision, keeping lots of snack food around the house and giving their kids ample money to burn every day instead of packing a nutritious lunch.

[bearishgurl]

I routinely drive by a particular high school some mornings at the time all the kids are walking into school. Here, the students wear uniforms and nearly EVERY female, tall or short, appears to weigh in excess of 150 lbs and nearly EVERY male, tall or short, appears to weigh in excess of 185 lbs. A few students appear to weigh over 250 lbs! In my mind, there’s something terribly wrong with this picture.

And no, this is not my kid’s school, but the same issues also prevail in their school.

Pre-teen and teen obesity is clearly at an epidemic level. I totally blame the parents for lack of supervision, keeping lots of snack food around the house and giving their kids ample money to burn every day instead of packing a nutritious lunch.

[Coronita]

So let me get this straight briansd, BG, and shadowfax….

If a obese/overweight/slighty chubby kid is picked on in school, the same way a gay/lesbian kid is, you’re proposal to this “issue” is to tell the obese/overweight/slightly_chubby kid to lose weight and eat more healthy so that you won’t get picked on as much, because well it’s good for your health anyway???????

If so, I’m just speechless and dumbfounded….

If the kid is butt ugly…Tell them to get plastic surgery????

I have a new t-shirt idea….

Matthews 7:4 for the 21st century:
“Everyone is prejudice to some extent..One way or another….Anyone who denies that is just full of it..”

[Coronita]

So let me get this straight briansd, BG, and shadowfax….

If a obese/overweight/slighty chubby kid is picked on in school, the same way a gay/lesbian kid is, you’re proposal to this “issue” is to tell the obese/overweight/slightly_chubby kid to lose weight and eat more healthy so that you won’t get picked on as much, because well it’s good for your health anyway???????

If so, I’m just speechless and dumbfounded….

If the kid is butt ugly…Tell them to get plastic surgery????

I have a new t-shirt idea….

Matthews 7:4 for the 21st century:
“Everyone is prejudice to some extent..One way or another….Anyone who denies that is just full of it..”

[Coronita]

So let me get this straight briansd, BG, and shadowfax….

If a obese/overweight/slighty chubby kid is picked on in school, the same way a gay/lesbian kid is, you’re proposal to this “issue” is to tell the obese/overweight/slightly_chubby kid to lose weight and eat more healthy so that you won’t get picked on as much, because well it’s good for your health anyway???????

If so, I’m just speechless and dumbfounded….

If the kid is butt ugly…Tell them to get plastic surgery????

I have a new t-shirt idea….

Matthews 7:4 for the 21st century:
“Everyone is prejudice to some extent..One way or another….Anyone who denies that is just full of it..”

[Coronita]

So let me get this straight briansd, BG, and shadowfax….

If a obese/overweight/slighty chubby kid is picked on in school, the same way a gay/lesbian kid is, you’re proposal to this “issue” is to tell the obese/overweight/slightly_chubby kid to lose weight and eat more healthy so that you won’t get picked on as much, because well it’s good for your health anyway???????

If so, I’m just speechless and dumbfounded….

If the kid is butt ugly…Tell them to get plastic surgery????

I have a new t-shirt idea….

Matthews 7:4 for the 21st century:
“Everyone is prejudice to some extent..One way or another….Anyone who denies that is just full of it..”

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