Schools, physical fitness, and diet.

So a big issue in today's society is obesity in children, physical fitness, and diet.  I've noticed a lot more schools hopping on board with special diet plans and exercise routines in physical fitness/gym/exercising classes in school being a mandatory program that each child needs to graduate.  While I definitely agree, it is great they are providing a healthier environment for these kids to receive their education in, I think it should be to a certain extent--because often schools are over stepping their boundaries to some extent, when it comes to food.  Obviously, they shouldn't be offering a bunch of junk to the kids there, and it is fine that they don't.  I'm not complaining because they won't throw the kids a cookie.  HOWEVER, they started this when I was in high school, around about, and one thing I noticed was them forcing certain obese students to eat a special diet.  Based off of their school ID number, they would have certain trays of food prepared for certain children.  THAT is what I see as over stepping their boundaries...  Because they didn't obtain permission or consent from the child's parents before implementing said special diets.

I understand the intention here is to have a healthier generation of kids, but they still need to make sure these kids even want to be on a diet, or that their parents and doctors even want them to be on a diet.  I know a girl who had something called something or another heart valve prolapse or something like that, and it basically meant she had to eat a certain way and exercise only so much, because excessive exercise would hurt her.  They put her on a special diet plan and exercise plan in gym, and I distinctly remember this girl having a lot of health issues afterwards...  She ended up being pulled out of school because she was so exhausted all of the time, due to the combination of an actually lethal heart condition with too much heavy exercise.   I feel like my school stepped over their boundaries in this instance, and caused her more heartache and difficulties than if she had never been on a diet or exercised in the first place.  But you know what amazed me even more?  Not one complaint or concern was raised by her parents.

Shouldn't it be our role as parents to step in and monitor these things?  Parents, come on!  Do not let the state and schools take away all of your power as your child's parent.  It is YOUR job to make important decisions concerning your child's health and well-being, not solely their educators or state.  You know why?  Because no matter what they learn at school, you are their primary educator and care giver, and are supposed to act as such.  So why are we letting the state and schools take so much power away from us when it concerns our children?  Our flesh and blood.  They don't always know what is best.   As their parents, you are wired to know when something is wrong with your child and something needs to be done about it.  That doesn't change just because they are no longer infants...  They just communicate it in different ways as they get older.  Pay attention, and don't let schools be the parents.