BMI... Not Politically Correct

The Cape Cod Times is following the easy path of being politically correct! The use of BMI in schools has never been to intimidate kids, as a matter of fact, kids that are physically muscular are showing up with high BMI's! Are they being made fun of in schools, not in my school! BMI continues to be a valuable tool to look at fitness and academic success, but weight issues continues to be a sensitive issue for parents because of the emotions involved. But in reality, BMI has its role, it is telling parents to look deeper into their child's health. In this forum I have elaborated numerous times about the benefits of BMI. The State of Mass. required it based on health reasons and yet not one of the state's health experts can be found to add some merit as to why its important...why because parents complain and it becomes a political liability.! Too bad... but then even P.E. professionals don't understand it and are against it so what does that say! Geez! Mr. F.