College controlling student's weight

rhandco
Sun, 28 Sep 2014 17:23:30 +0000

That is great that you were able to help out your daughter. It will help her learn to self-advocate in the future.

I would not contact anyone outside of health services about this. If you are worried the policy will hurt other kids, you could ask the health service if they could mandate including the student’s parents in decisions such as daily medical testing.

The program could be bogus for her, but not for others.

Maybe asking the nutritionist to review the program and give guidance? Maybe requiring a nutritionist to be included from day one if a student is brought in for BMI issues?

I hope this will only be a memory for her, and she can move on.

It also reminds me of a case of a friend of mine traveling across country by plane with his 15 year old niece, and no one else in the party. Upon landing, he was immediately treated as some kind of pervert/child trafficker. They insisted on detaining him and calling her parents and so on, took more than two hours to get on their way. Should they not have done that? If it catches that one guy who is trafficking a child, then is it worth it?