[Tigbit]

Originally posted by Baron Munchausen:
How is watching students' weight an 'insanity'? Aren't schools supposed to be monitoring the health and welfare of the students?

A governmental power (be it a country or a school) has to strike a certain ballance between control and freedom. If you have too little control you have trouble, if you have too much control you will have fear. How does a power decide which is which? Do they really care if a certain control is going too far? Well, sometimes it takes the public to complain loud enough that members of the controlling power hear the message.

Yes we are supposed to be concerned with weight, but most of us are not. In a free society all the power can hope to do is show the public what is wrong or damaging to themselves and allow them to change their behavior on their own. Personally I find it going too far to enforce correct eating habits. Why do I think this? Well once a school has succeeded in that they will move onto another personal freedom they feel is damaging and try to enforce that, thinking the whole time that they are doing good, when in actuality they are whittling at more and more freedoms. Little we realize what is happening till it is too late to turn them back. This is why the story falls well in the catagory of insane.