Texas senator proposes :Should your child be graded on weight?

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AUSTIN, Texas - Experts say more than a third of Texas schoolchildren are overweight or at risk for obesity. That figure alarms Leticia Van dePutte, a state senator from San Antonio, who is also a practicing pharmacist.

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" to see the number of 8- and 9-year-olds that are coming into the pharmacy to get the insulin, or 12-year-olds that take more blood pressure medicine than my grandmother," says Van dePutte.

So Van dePutte is proposing a state law requiring schools to weigh students, compute their body mass index, and send that information home on their report cards
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Oh this is going to give kids good self esteem puting it on their report cards!!!