The meltdown over at the Seattle Times editorial page continues today. The lead unsigned editorial says: Schools should lead fight against obesity
A growing number of school districts around the country are taking bold action in the face of the childhood-obesity epidemic. It's time for more schools in this region to join the effort to confront this public health crisis.Yes, the schools should do this. The schools should do a lot of things. Maybe once the schools manage to successfully lead the fight to, say, teach reading, writing and math we can talk about handing them some more fights to lead. In the meantime, maybe it's the, uh, parents who should lead the fight to feed their kids properly. Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at November 19, 2003 11:13 AM
Amen to that! Any organization that cannot successfully carry out their primary mission should not be assigned secondary objectives.
You mean they shouldn't teach healthy eating in Home Ec. (or Health, or whatever they call it these days)?
Everyone eats at McDonald's until we raise the test scores?
Posted by: Bruce Rheinstein on November 19, 2003 11:48 AM