Deal weighs students in front of one another???

[Anonymous]

Completely inappropriate. As someone else said, the kids all had a physical prior to enrollment.

I can see no reason whatsoever for the school to need to weigh a middle schooler. And truly absurd and cruel and unnecessary to allow anyone else beside the child and the parent know the results. A child's weight is between the child, parent, and health care provider. Unless the athletic coach is determining wrestling class weights, which I highly doubt.

[Anonymous]

Hmm. No first-hand confirmation from any Deal family.

My kid is there but not in PE this term, so I don't know, but from everything I've observed about the school, I would be very surprised if this is actually happening.

Amazing how quickly we go from "I read a post on Facebook from someone who didn't identify the school her kid attends" to "Deal needs to fire the teacher who's fat-shaming children"....

[Anonymous]

I've had kids at Deal for 9 years running and none them have ever experienced this.

[Anonymous]

Sounds horrible.

Even worse, when I was in 9th grade, the teacher, who also served as a guidance counselor (!) read off everyone's IQs to the whole class!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sounds horrible.

Even worse, when I was in 9th grade, the teacher, who also served as a guidance counselor (!) read off everyone's IQs to the whole class!

Wow. You clearly win.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've had kids at Deal for 9 years running and none them have ever experienced this.

8th grade PE

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've had kids at Deal for 9 years running and none them have ever experienced this.

We just started year 8 at Deal and this is the first I have heard of this.

[Anonymous]

There's a thread below about sixth math placement at deal. I'll bet children can deduce one another's test scores based on their placement sixth or seventh grade math class.

I'm sure most everyone on here is in favor of academic tracking...

[Anonymous]

I just asked my Deal 8th grader (who doesn't have PE this semester), and yes, in past PE classes at Deal they were measured and weighed and the numbers were kept private. No one knew anyone's numbers unless you told someone yours.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There's a thread below about sixth math placement at deal. I'll bet children can deduce one another's test scores based on their placement sixth or seventh grade math class.

I'm sure most everyone on here is in favor of academic tracking...

Are you posting on the wrong thread?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If this is true it's absolutely horrific and the teacher / coach who did this should be fired.

Yes sooooo horrific.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sounds horrible.

Even worse, when I was in 9th grade, the teacher, who also served as a guidance counselor (!) read off everyone's IQs to the whole class!

I went to an elementary school where the teachers would read out your scores on standardized CogAT-type tests to the whole class as they handed out the result sheets. Some teachers would even congratulate the top scorers in the class.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I've had kids at Deal for 9 years running and none them have ever experienced this.

We just started year 8 at Deal and this is the first I have heard of this.

PP here on year 8. Just spoke to my 7th grader who says they always do it for PE and it is NEVER, EVER public. Kids share if they want but she doesn't share nor felt any pressure to share. She never told me about it because it is no big deal. Also spoke to my Deal grads and they were measured and weighed but it was never made public either.

[Anonymous]

Isn't this a HIPAA violation?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If this is true it's absolutely horrific and the teacher / coach who did this should be fired.

Oh for Pete's sake.

No it's not "absolutely horrific." Maybe a little out of line, but frankly it wouldn't bother me at all. I'm sure there are much bigger problems at Deal to gripe about.

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People who say this is no big deal obviously never had weight problems. I was overweight in middle school and already had self esteem issues. Changing for gym class was the worst part of my day. Being weighed in front of other students would have been horrific. I was teased enough without everyone knowing my weight. And this was at a Montgomery County school people on the Md school board love.

Still not something for which a teacher should be fired.

+1 This exactly. Didn't you all have this when you were in school? I recall the yearly weight check with the nurse. Kids weighted in line, you got on the scale, and the nurse wrote down the number quietly. Maybe you could see the weight of the kid in front of you in line. It's not like the school nurse announced. "Larla Jones, 78 pounds" at the top of her lungs.