He got plenty of them the day those letters came home - yes, all three of them. It's amazing how short sighted people with power can actually be!

Hearted for the speaking the truth!

You can read my comment in full up or down thread about my own child which explains my feelings on this pretty clearly but sending a letter home without an envelope in the hands of the child it concerns absolutely *is* fat shaming.

You can see my post about my son upthread or downthreat somewhere - but I got one and let me tell you pissed was exactly what I was. Especially given that it came home - not even in an envelope - with *him*.

Dear God, you are the snarky version of the real life comments I hear every.effing.day.at.work. I so love you for that!

Haha, hearted for yoga!

No, and that's a fair point. But let me point out that in the beginning I was dumb enough to send my children with money thinking that breakfast and lunch at the school was surely healthy. It took seeing it with my own eyes to cause a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach and a new rule that no school food was…

I suppose that the school's own defense team might offer a photograph of one of their lunches as evidence that they are also complicit in the weight issue and thus not at fault because of lack of notification and are just as at fault as the parents.

That would be great if they advised only the parents (and stopped feeding children school breakfast and lunches filled with empty calories and God only knows what else). But sending a letter home with a child from the nurse which tells them that they are fat is patently wrong and needs to stop.

I'm so sorry for that 15 year old you. I can't imagine how you weren't a sobbing mess each time you left and man that makes me angry for you!

My nine year old son has Tourette's and in December started on a new med which killed off his extremely painful neck tic but made him gain weight. A lot of weight. As if his self esteem wasn't bad enough they forced him to bring home not one but three letters from the nurse telling me my son was overweight.

This.

I'm sorry but I've got to agree with everyone else here. There is no reason that you needed to jump on the bandwagon and show this guy's face just for page views. Pretty shitty move Gawker.

You flirt with everyone?! That's the angle I'm taking too ;)

I'm hoping that being the eldest student will earn me something. Like respect. Or a few extra points when the prof realizes that my dementia is setting in and feels sorry for me...

Appreciate it - I wish I could only take the classes I'd really enjoy. Dead languages, art history, world history, etc. But I'm thinking I'm going to also have to take those classes which will make me want to gouge my brain out with a dull spoon, like statistics and calculus. So not looking forward to being tutored by…

Thanks! I'm hoping that whole 'it's better to learn when you're young' thing is really over rated.

Oh, I should have described my career a bit better - I'm one of very few women in a mostly male organization; I think we have something like 420 on the line and only about 15 females thus there are mainly men getting promoted.

Yeah, I will say this - I probably might have been able to do it while my sons were still young but my one son has Tourette's and is immune compromised so I spent SO much time taking care of him that it was just too much to try to do that, take care of the baby *and* go to school on top of it.

Thanks - though I live with a pretty snarky brood so I'm imagining their comments to be more like 'Ha, what took you so long?!' than 'Way to go ma!' lol