Forget the debate over numbered versus lettered grades: The latest news in report cards is a new issue, and it’s personal. Children in Massachusetts will now be sent home with a “fat card,” or a report card of their Body Mass Index.
Students already have their heights and weights measured annually at school. Now, according to the Massachusetts Public Health Council’s new rule, those measurements will be calculated into a BMI and sent home in a package to parents explaining what the numbers mean and how to fight obesity.
