How Far is too Far?

I'm sure you all have heard about schools trying to get their kids to be more healthy. It is good that schools are trying to incourage a healthy life but how far is too far?

No desserts until friday, baked chips, no pop, and madatory fruit are some of the things that you will find at my school's cafeteria. Lunches cost more if you don't get a fruit or vegetable. The options of chips include various brands of baked chips (everyone knows they aren't the same). In all of the vending machines the only thing available is vitamin water although one of the teachers is known to sell pop. It is understandable with the growing number of obese children.

It doesn't stop at the cafeteria, students are required to take a form of gym all year with other options available. In gym class students are required to wear heart moniters. Students have to keep their heart rate above 140 and below 210 to have the watch start counting minutes. Everyday it is required to have 30 minutes on the clock to get the full number of points for that day. The idea of a way to insure exersize is a good idea but the heart moniter is worn on the skin where a girls bra would end. Not to mention the moniters have to be extremely tight to the body for it to read the correct number. A lot of the time the moniters will not have the correct numbers, it can be hard to get the thirty minutes everyday.

 Making students wear a moniter during gym class for a grade is pretty extreme. What happened to the teacher looking around at who is working out and who isn't? It should be required for kids that aren't doing what they should be during gym. So that it encourages kids to work hard. Anyway, thanks for reading :)