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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just b/c it happened years before does not mean it is OK.

I would ask the school - why does the PE teacher need this info?  Are there ways the school can accomplish this differently?  [/quote]

Just to be clear: The OP read a Facebook post and extrapolated that it happened at Deal. There has still not been a single first-hand report on this thread validating that a Deal PE teacher has publicly weighed students and announced their weights.

We do, however, have a couple of Deal parents reporting that children are weighed privately in PE and that it's possible the kids talk about their weights. It would be reasonable to suggest that even this isn't appropriate/necessary, and that it puts kids in the position of being peer-pressured into discussing their weights. I would agree with that position!

But the entire premise of the original post--what's generating all of the outrage--is an unconfirmed, third-hand report that the PE teacher at an unnamed middle school that might be Deal is publicly shaming kids about their weight. And it seems not to be backed up by a single poster on this thread. So maybe let's not freak out?[/quote]

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