to expect my permission to be asked before teacher weighs the whole class

[nametaken]

dd was weighed at school today along with everyone else in year 6 - no warnings - no permission slips to sign - nothing.

Now, all my dcs are the correct weight for their height but I take offence at this.

Number 1 for this governments constant interference in the minutaie of family life

Number 2 for school not asking my permission.

Honestly I feel like one of those cartoon characters with steam coming from their ears. If this useless government really wants to tackle childhood obesity why the effing hell don't they

make the streets safer
lower car speed limits
increase pedestrian only zones round housing estates
add more sport to the curriculum

or any number of other things.

OK - is it just me moaning or would you be incensed.

And what happens if your dc isn't within the guidelines for weight/height ratios. Oh dear me you GET A LETTER TELLING YOU OFF.

Lovely.

Just them weighing them wouldn´t bother me. What they did with that information potentially would.

I think you are being unreasonable - sorry but big deal so they found how much they weighed! What are they going to do with the information? If they started dividing the class into those that are over weight and those that are not - maybe another arguement but how much you weigh IMO no big deal!!

I know when DD was yr 6 we had to give permission. twas the school nurse did the weighing.
gave mine as had no worries about DDs weight and if i had then would have been doing something about it.
Interstingly a mate had a phone call after telling her her DD was seriously overweight. mate fumes a bit then points out that actually her DD is very very over tall and perfectly slim and had the incompetent school nurse checked weight against height. and no she hadn't.
no not U. permission should have been asked.

sorry but I think it is a good thing for someone to be talking to parents of extremely overweight children.
I do think parents should have been informed that this was going to happen.
Some parents may not think their beautiful child is actually at risk of serious health problems.

If the Government is going to take any action on the problem (and I think all your suggestions are sensible btw), they need to be able to evaluate the effectiveness of that action. And for that they need some hard data - hence the weighing.

I went through this with DS1 two years ago. You will receive, in a sealed envelope, your child's weight and height, and which percentile each falls into. No comments. (Not even "That boy's a beanpole. You should try feeding him".)

I think it is bang out of order our nurse does this but what pi**es me off is a few months ok the nurse rang me as she was concerned that my DD was underweight
She is a skinny minnie as me and her dad are both small and she was born early due to my placenta failing

However I recently found out the nurse has weighed my DD twice and asked her stuff like if she eats breakfast

I am taking it up with the HT tomorrow .

I do think we should be sent a letter home informing us that the class is to be weighed .

We were sent a letter and could opt out if we wished.
They claimed the data would be anonymous - just linking height/age/weight for statistical analysis.

DD had a dental exam last week, the aim was a study of welsh children's not to check individual dental health. We had a questionnaire to complete and a permission letter. Apparently they did give children who needed to see a dentist a letter. I guess this is the same sort of thing? Maybe if all they have is the weight and ages of the children then I wouldn't mind.

i agree with you nametaken
wholeheartedly
cheek of it

Wouldn't bother me. DSs class were all weighed recently as part of a maths project. I remember being weighed and measured at school and having my head checked for nits .

I might, however, feel very differently if my children were fat....

or why don't they ban junk food advertising? Really, why don't they ban it? I don't understand?

there was an overweight boy in the class and guess what - he was crying, yes crying when lining up to be weighed.

Did the teacher weigh the class or was it a school nurse? Because if it was a nurse I think you need permission.

If the teacher weighed the class was it for a health check (because that's the nurse's job) or was it maybe a numeracy lesson about weight/mass/scales?

we had a letter home about this today - they are doing it next week and we can opt out if we want. also says that no child will be made to take part it THEY don't want to at the time.

YANBU on many counts, but that's particularly horrible that they made one child cry. They humiliated him- how is that anything to do with education, other than to teach him shame and self loathing?

also said - if you want the results (weight and height) send form A to the PCT and if you don't want your child to take part send form B to school.
If you are happy for your child to take part - do nothing. Which assumes that parents i) get the letters and ii) read them.

I agree cs. If it was a lesson about weight the children shouldn't be made to weigh themselves if they don't wish. Would be polite to ask permission, especially in light of recent publicity.

ours were weighed last term - school nurse and think we had to give permission.

I think it's a good idea.

it's gov'n stats - not weight lesson for the kids.

yanbu

If it was the school nurse then you are supposed to be asked for permission. The problem is that it's an 'opt out' letter so if you don't send the slip back they assume it's OK. So if you have a child that is lax with letters, or was off sick on that day then you may not get a letter, won't return the slip and the assumption is that you've given permission.

YANBU - it's nice to be asked!

OMG - just seen that about the overweight boy. That's obscene that he was humiliated like that

Haven't read the thread, but they measure everything else don't they? So why not weight?