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another email to principal... this time regarding easy child!
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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 534091" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>It is just stupid, when they take some statistic and just look at it and not the situation.</p><p></p><p>Yeah, young kids BMI (if you want to use that tool), should be under 17, but girls whose periods have started are not little kids any more. Their height and weight should be looked more as they were adults. While they are still growing, they also tend to already have some womanly curves and adult type of body.</p><p></p><p>BMI is a good enough tool. It goes awry with very tall people, very muscular men and very short people, but for others range tends to be enough. Especially if you don't freak with BMI being 25-30 for active person with more stocky frame. But of course you always have to also look. My easy child's BMI is now around 25 and if he continues with his sport he will likely soon have muscles that will make him 'overweight' according to BMI, but that is something where you just have to look the person and notice that it is not him really being overweight. difficult child is taller and his BMI is around 23, but in reality that means he is skinny and much more slightly built than his brother by nature. It shouldn't be too hard for health care professionals to look the person and not only statistics. BMI is good for statistical use (because there are not so many NBA pros around there to really mess it up) and it is good for personal level to take notice, if you are not inside the range. Like with ksm easy child, she is not in the range for her age, and the person doing the testing should have noticed it, then noticed that she is much taller than the average, looked the kid and noticed that she looks like early developer and looked the charts for older kids with the same height as ksm's easy child. Every one knows kids in that age are often in very different places in their physical development. It is absolutely not possible to say, that 11-year-old should be this and this height. Some girls are already well on their puberty in that age, some boys are not even starting yet, and that is normal. And if the puberty is starting too early or late, it is health professionals business, not PE teachers.</p><p></p><p>And any case, giving that kind of letter to the kid herself and not sending it to parents without showing it to the kid: Argh! Really, what are they thinking!?! <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/emoticons/grrr.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":grrr:" title="grrr :grrr:" data-shortname=":grrr:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 534091, member: 14557"] It is just stupid, when they take some statistic and just look at it and not the situation. Yeah, young kids BMI (if you want to use that tool), should be under 17, but girls whose periods have started are not little kids any more. Their height and weight should be looked more as they were adults. While they are still growing, they also tend to already have some womanly curves and adult type of body. BMI is a good enough tool. It goes awry with very tall people, very muscular men and very short people, but for others range tends to be enough. Especially if you don't freak with BMI being 25-30 for active person with more stocky frame. But of course you always have to also look. My easy child's BMI is now around 25 and if he continues with his sport he will likely soon have muscles that will make him 'overweight' according to BMI, but that is something where you just have to look the person and notice that it is not him really being overweight. difficult child is taller and his BMI is around 23, but in reality that means he is skinny and much more slightly built than his brother by nature. It shouldn't be too hard for health care professionals to look the person and not only statistics. BMI is good for statistical use (because there are not so many NBA pros around there to really mess it up) and it is good for personal level to take notice, if you are not inside the range. Like with ksm easy child, she is not in the range for her age, and the person doing the testing should have noticed it, then noticed that she is much taller than the average, looked the kid and noticed that she looks like early developer and looked the charts for older kids with the same height as ksm's easy child. Every one knows kids in that age are often in very different places in their physical development. It is absolutely not possible to say, that 11-year-old should be this and this height. Some girls are already well on their puberty in that age, some boys are not even starting yet, and that is normal. And if the puberty is starting too early or late, it is health professionals business, not PE teachers. And any case, giving that kind of letter to the kid herself and not sending it to parents without showing it to the kid: Argh! Really, what are they thinking!?! :grrr: [/QUOTE]
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