Fairfax students to begin wearing pedometers/tracking eating habits

[michgc]

Originally Posted by springfieldva

You got an opt out form for the pedometer thing or an opt out form for the family life ed? We haven't received any info about the fitness program, yet.

We got a form about the pedometer thing in yesterday's Tuesday folder with an opt-out option. To be honest, I just glanced at it and recycled it, since my kids' last day in the school district is on Friday.

[tgbwc]

Originally Posted by springfieldva

You got an opt out form for the pedometer thing or an opt out form for the family life ed? We haven't received any info about the fitness program, yet.

My wife and I both work in elementary schools and haven't heard anything (at work) about this program.

[preetianm]

I feel MOVband is a great choice for your kids; it’s a wrist worn pedometer, which you can use as a watch or as pedometer. It is really useful for kids; my experience was great by using these pedometers I think now it’s you’re done to use these pedometers for your kids.
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[CAVA1990]

Originally Posted by preetianm

I feel MOVband is a great choice for your kids; it’s a wrist worn pedometer, which you can use as a watch or as pedometer. It is really useful for kids; my experience was great by using these pedometers I think now it’s you’re done to use these pedometers for your kids.
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I think someone told me that a friend of their cousin's got one those off that site but it caused an infection and their arm had to be amputated.

[finecognac]

Originally Posted by Alltheusernamesaretaken

Wow.
All because some kids are encouraged to sit in front of TV and video games for hours
and eat chips and drink soda.
Not go outside and run around for several hours, and drink lots of water.

Nanny state, big-time.

Just some kids ? Last time I look, it's almost all of them.

P.S I am not in support of this policy. Just thought that perhaps because there are too many fat kids nowadays.

[marie5v]

What is wrong with you people????! Everyone knows that American kids are overweight and heavier on average than the rest of the world. And it's NOT just poor kids, although they are more at risk. Sorry, but there is no way based on just what I've seen in my middle/upper-middle class neighborhood that some of you writing this are not overweight and eating stuff/feeding stuff to your kids that is not very healthy. This is not a big brother requirement, this is a great, fun and informative way for schools to teach kids about the importance of exercise and eating right and to show them exactly what that means. Of all the junk you learn in school around here, this is actually useful stuff, and they won't even be graded on it, so if you feed your kids McDonalds once a week it won't even matter. This is similar to what is traditionally taught in Health, PE, Home Ec (when we had it), and similar subjects. They're even giving you an opt out so you conspiracy-theorists who want to complain about the school system and then obstruct all their efforts to improve can keep your kids from learning anything. What's the problem with this? Why do parents make everything so difficult for the schools, even when they are trying to do something right? Why, it's even possible that this help hold schools accountable for a lack of exercise due to reduced PE time and missed recess for the purposes of test prep. There are still a lot of teachers having kids sit and do homework at recess, and some schools are doing less than the minimum PE to make more room for instruction. Those tend to be schools with the poorest and most unhealthy kids.