God is this a great example of the PC world.
We have to keep every one's self esteem high, no matter what....
No matter how PC you want to be, at some point people need to hear the truth.
If your fat, you need to hear it. You should feel bad about it, that is how people get better.
You should feel bad that you have 3 kids and your 18.
You should be told if you suck at basketball.
Because you know what happens? You either work hard and get better, or one day you get cut from you HS team after being told how great you are for 15 years, then you don't know how to handle it, so you start shooting people.
Kids need to be taught how to deal with criticism, and hardship, and the real world.
I hear it all the time. College professors tell me that the new crop of kids can't handle being told what they did was not very good. What are these kids going to do when they don't get the first 25 jobs they apply for?
This whole PC/self-esteem issue has gone way to far.
It is sad a school has to be the one to tell kids they are fat.
quote from the article:
"The part that upset her the most as she started reading it, there it stated that she was overweight and she started to cry saying, 'Mom, that school tells me I'm fat.' So, it was very heart wrenching," said Flaurette Martinez.
So what! If she is fat, her mom should have been telling her as well, making her exercise and join sports, and have a better diet...
The one problem with this story is that they use BMI to measure obesity. Anyone who knows anything about this topic will agree BMI is a very poor measure of actual obesity. Just about every athlete in college and many pro sports is considered obese because it does not take into account muscle mass at all.
We have to keep every one's self esteem high, no matter what....
No matter how PC you want to be, at some point people need to hear the truth.
If your fat, you need to hear it. You should feel bad about it, that is how people get better.
You should feel bad that you have 3 kids and your 18.
You should be told if you suck at basketball.
Because you know what happens? You either work hard and get better, or one day you get cut from you HS team after being told how great you are for 15 years, then you don't know how to handle it, so you start shooting people.
Kids need to be taught how to deal with criticism, and hardship, and the real world.
I hear it all the time. College professors tell me that the new crop of kids can't handle being told what they did was not very good. What are these kids going to do when they don't get the first 25 jobs they apply for?
This whole PC/self-esteem issue has gone way to far.
It is sad a school has to be the one to tell kids they are fat.
quote from the article:
"The part that upset her the most as she started reading it, there it stated that she was overweight and she started to cry saying, 'Mom, that school tells me I'm fat.' So, it was very heart wrenching," said Flaurette Martinez.
So what! If she is fat, her mom should have been telling her as well, making her exercise and join sports, and have a better diet...
The one problem with this story is that they use BMI to measure obesity. Anyone who knows anything about this topic will agree BMI is a very poor measure of actual obesity. Just about every athlete in college and many pro sports is considered obese because it does not take into account muscle mass at all.
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