'Overweight' Letters From Schools Outrage Parents

[The Straight Story]

'Overweight' Letters From Schools Outrage Parents

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Parents are outraged over letters being sent home from Central Florida schools calling their children overweight.

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"I don't feel that it's accurate," parent Solan Udell said. "I don't feel that he's overweight. You don't look at my son and say he's overweight."

"It makes me feel bad for my son, I guess," parent Kiely Solby said. "I don't want anything negative said about my son. You try for the best for your children."

Solby and other parents are blasting Florida's latest health screening report cards, calling the findings pure insult and bad math, Local 6's Mike Holfeld reported.

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"They felt like they were being accused of something," Orange County school health services Regina Hayward said.

That prompted the county to develop a new letter explaining the screening isn't fool proof and doesn’t take muscle mass or bone structure into account.


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