Things that make me turn off the radio

[tim]

Overheard during a Think Out Loud discussion of health care reform: some guy (a guest, not a caller!) suggesting that [schools?] should
'notify parents of their children's height, weight and body mass index, so that they can be empowered and take charge'

Can you name all the reasons why this is a horrible idea?

Comments

man, this is why I don't write to LJ anymore

[talia_et_alia]

Oh, and the meta-issue that lack of information about individual bodies is not causing whatever height-weight-proportionalism (or, probably, lack thereof) that our commentator is perceiving. Tell media and its consuming public to go fuck themselves with a Photoshop disc, get the government to subsidize food rather than products (and war), and let's talk about how this country prefers to starve its poor as a matter of policy, first.