F for fat?

have you heard about public schools latest and greatest idea???

F stands for fat?

exerpt: Some school officials and parents said Wednesday the legislation goes too far.

"It's ludicrous," said Mike McGowan, spokesman for Cherokee County schools. "There may be a problem, but why is that public education's responsibility? What does that have to do with reading, writing and arithmetic?"

Sharon Riviere, a mother of three children in DeKalb County public schools, said a child's body mass index and weight are nobody else's business.

"Can you imagine the teasing that would go on?" said Riviere, who has worked in health care and noted that weight is a subject people want kept confidential.

Georgia would not be the first to grade students' weight. Arkansas requires body mass index to be included along with grades on students' report cards. Pennsylvania will begin measuring students' body mass index by 2008, and Texas is considering doing the same.