Obese students targeted by curriculum at Pennsylvania college

[Seth Warren]

From NPR:

Entering freshmen at Lincoln University have to get their body mass index, or BMI, measured. And if the result comes back above 30, the threshold for obesity, the students have to take a physical education class called "HPR 103 Fitness Walking/ Conditioning" or they can't graduate.

More sensationalised versions of this report crow with headlines such as "Obese Students Not Allowed to Graduate." That's not exactly true, as an obese student who has taken the required class will be allowed to graduate. Still, this smells of discrimination and privacy invasion as the requirement is triggered by something that, as I see it, is no business or concern of any bureaucracy.

 

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