A recent New York Times story noted that many school districts are sending home notices telling parents their kid is overweight. The schools are using those ridiculous BMI charts, which basically state that boobsticks like Nicole Ritchie, Kate Moss and Kate Bosworth are little miss perfect weights, while you and your offspring are Jabba the Hut.
Schools have some nerve traumatizing these kids into thinking they’ll never look like their Bratz dolls, when it’s the school itself that is part of the problem.
Consider, for instance, my first-grade daughter’s school lunch menu for the week of Jan. 22-26:
Monday: French toast stix, sausage
Tuesday: Cheeseburger, potato puffs
Wednesday: Italian dunkers, meatsauce
Thursday: Salisbury steak, gravy, churro
Friday: Pizza
If Kirstie Alley somehow stumbled into this cafeteria, she’d be back up to 300 pounds. I know schools save bundles of money by buying government surplus food, but a little more menu creativity would help. Also, I have no idea what Italian dunkers and churro are, other than racial discrimination lawsuits waiting to happen.