{"id":2052,"date":"2006-01-09T18:29:27","date_gmt":"2006-01-10T01:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/01\/09\/anti-fat-bigotry-against-schoolteachers-proposed-in-hawaii\/"},"modified":"2006-01-09T18:29:27","modified_gmt":"2006-01-10T01:29:27","slug":"anti-fat-bigotry-against-schoolteachers-proposed-in-hawaii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=2052","title":{"rendered":"Anti-fat Bigotry Against Schoolteachers Proposed in Hawaii"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"snip\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedenverchannel.com\/education\/4322022\/detail.html\">State Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitol.hawaii.gov\/site1\/house\/members\/rep42.asp?press1=house&#038;press2=members\">Rida Cabanilla<\/a> introduced<\/a> a resolution in the house requesting that the Board of Education establish an obesity database among public schoolteachers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You cannot keep a kid to a certain standard that you yourself is not willing to keep,&#8221; Cabanilla said. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The resolution calls for all public schoolteachers to weigh in every six months.<\/p>\n<p>The measure calls for the education and health departments to formulate an obesity standard and appropriate measures for teachers who cannot meet the standard.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Wow, is this disgusting.<\/p>\n<p>No luck so far finding out what &#8220;appropriate measures&#8221; consist of, but I&#8217;ll keep looking.<\/p>\n<p>This is a bit similar to a story a year ago, when a California legislator <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedenverchannel.com\/education\/4108759\/detail.html\">proposed including children&#8217;s BMIs on report cards<\/a>, right under their grades. Because if there one thing California culture lacks, it&#8217;s people being judged by their weight.<\/p>\n<p>Curtsy: <a href=\"http:\/\/brutalwomen.blogspot.com\/2006\/01\/it-gets-better-better.html\">Brutal Women<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Rep. Rida Cabanilla introduced a resolution in the house requesting that the Board of Education establish an obesity database among public schoolteachers. &#8220;You cannot keep a kid to a certain standard that you yourself is not willing to keep,&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=2052\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fat-fat-and-more-fat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}