Thursday, February 25, 2010

BMI is coming your way

(it's required)
Being approved tonight, coming out of the TLSS subcommittee is the Body Mass Index, an "unfunded mandate" as Mr. O'Connell points out.
(He's looking for reimbursement from the state.)

4 comments:

Jenith said...

Is opting out an option?

Tracy Novick said...

As a district, no.
As a parent, yes. You may choose not to have BMI measured at school. In fact, Mrs. Mullaney asked that this be made quite clear to parents moving forward.

T-Traveler said...

Is there an implementation plan? Will the children and parents get an explanation of BMI? Mr. Monfredo said that at the parents request the data could be interpreted by the school nurse, in fact I think he said the nurses would diagnose. The nurses cannot diagnose...the childs doctor or np should make a diagnosis

Tracy Novick said...

The pamphlet that goes home with the number is supposed to explain it ('though I should note that Mrs. Mullaney questioned how well it did so). All the nurses are going to do, to my knowledge, is give the BMI number. As you correctly point out, anything further should be done by the child's doctor.

And again, this is a state law that we're having to implement.