School District Abandons $40,000 Tracking Bracelets/ Instead Has Students Enter Personal Eating Habits On Government Website Called “Super Tracker”

Posted by The P/Oed Patriot

Earlier this year, a School District in St. Louis Missouri was forced to abandon it’s plan to make students wear tracking bracelets that would monitor their activity level 24/7 after a public outrage insued over the obvious privacy issues.

But according to an article on Missouri Education Watchdog, it seems that the same school district is at it again and determined to track their students’ behavior one way or another.

Instead of forcing the students to wear expensive tracking bracelets ($40,000 was spent on the tracking project) students are now being told to enter their personal eating habits and amount of daily physical activity into a Government website called ‘Super Tracker’:

“A high school student just shared with me this week a website they were told to go on in their health class to calculate their overall health based on input regarding their diet and exercise. The USDA’s site is called “Supertracker.” The name says it all. Once registered, you are asked to enter all the foods you ate on a typical day. You are then asked to input all the activity you did that day. Each of these screens come with drop down menus with several hundred food and activity options. This is not a superficial, gimmicky, analysis program. Someone has put a lot of time and effort into creating it.

Once you have entered all that information, SuperTracker provides you a health report detailing how many of your daily calories came from fats and what kind of fats, what your sodium intake is, and how much you need to increase your activity levels.

Even IF the government doesn’t use this data to track students individually, they are amassing a lot of conglomerated data on the average teen lifestyle which will just be too tempting to ignore.

Why has the Obama administration created a website with such an ominous name like Super Tracker that will collect all of this data about school children?

Well according to this video made by Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, Super Tracker is for everyone and it’s meant to help you live healthier (Yea right):

Earlier this year when the Superintendent of the St. Louis school district was confronted as to why they were forcing students to wear the tracking bracelets, her answer was eerily similar to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack’s:

When asked how they could justify that expense, the Superintendent Keith Marty said, “Parents are expecting us to help them and help their children become healthier.” (watch the videohere and pay attention at 1:04)

So the Federal Government, and this St. Louis school district, are just trying to help the American people (and your kids) live healthier lives by colletcing personal information on their eating and activity habits?

If you believe that, then I have a bridge for sale in New York.

But I think Gretchen, of Missouri Education Watchdog, hit the nail on the head when she wrote:

“This data will be combined with that from other government departments (who are all sharing data now) to develop regulations about the foods Americans will be allowed to eat.

…..Data like this will be used to justify why they must force those who do not participate voluntarily to comply with regulation in the future.”

#1 February 10, 2012 at 5:52 pm
donh commented:

Where was Communist Big Brother of the Agriculture Department when it came to tracking Corzine’s MF Global 1 billions dollar theft of customer accounts hedging agricultural commodity positions ? Too busy peeping on kids in school locker rooms with your spy cams ?
#2 February 10, 2012 at 6:00 pm
Jayne on Left Coast commented:

How about flooding the spy ring uh I mean Super Tracker with phony info. Like we eat sweets and sugar drinks 24/7 and do zilch activity. Anyone else game?
#3 February 10, 2012 at 6:01 pm
Marmo commented:

With government-run healthcare on the horizon, the government must know how well you comply with government-dictated eating and activity policies. Those who don’t comply cost more money in healthcare costs and will be suitably punished.
#4 February 10, 2012 at 6:07 pm
jimg commented:

Sign up and lie your ass off.

If enough people do that, they’ll pull it simply because it’s full of false – and useless – information.
#5 February 10, 2012 at 6:08 pm
Patty commented:

Dear God, when will this Government Control stop. Michelle Obama has been the mastermind behind this, undoubtedly.

Government is reaching into every part of our life. More and more freedoms are being taken away. Will these parents stand up and say No?

Poll was take and Obama beats every republican candidate, who are they polling morons. If Obama is re-elected there will be no America, not the one we love. Government takeover on what we eat, what we drive, how much energy we use in our own home and they are doing that now, no salt, no sugar, no pizza, no fries, nothing that is fattening, ever.

I believe in a healthy life style and I do exercise regularly, I don’t want this government telling me or my children what information on a government website we must enter. This is communism. This is again in my opinion unconstitutional.

The only way we can CHANGE AND BRING BACK REAL HOPE IS NEVER ALLOW Obama to be re-elected. PERIOD.
#6 February 10, 2012 at 6:08 pm
BuckOfama commented:

The democrats have already determined during the abortion discussions that “No one has the right to tell me what to do with my body”.

Since they have mandated that policy, it should over ride any future rulings on what you can eat or drink. For that matter, it should also invalidate seat belt laws, motorcycle helmet laws, etc.
#7 February 10, 2012 at 6:09 pm
Texas_Treeroach commented:

“Choco rations going up.”
“Really?”
“Twenty-five grams next week.”
“Doubleplus good.”

— “1984″ – George Orwell.

Welcome to our future, America.
#8 February 10, 2012 at 6:14 pm
Sickofobama commented:

Triple cheeseburger with an extra large order of fries with a bacon milkshake. Follow it up with a banana split.

And I would log in as Michelle Obama.
#9 February 10, 2012 at 6:14 pm
squeaky commented:

“..government-dictated eating and activity policies. Those who don’t comply cost more money in healthcare..” with the government being the judge jury and exectioner.
#10 February 10, 2012 at 6:15 pm
lol commented:

i wonder how many of our taxpayer dollars funded the “genius” (eye roll) supertracker program. when you visit your doctor i’m sure he’ll pull up your supertracker info.
#11 February 10, 2012 at 6:17 pm
squeaky commented:

exectioner.= executioner. whatever…..there will be only one standard and that being the obama standard. everywhere i look they certainly are selling michelle.
#12 February 10, 2012 at 6:20 pm
squeaky commented:

“i wonder how many of our taxpayer dollars funded the….”the lions share probably went into the pocket of an obama bundler/supporter.
#13 February 10, 2012 at 6:21 pm
Patty commented:

American desperately needs a Hero—-but Who?

Stunned Americans are asking, “Why would Obama, in an election year, boldly trash the first amendment, forcing Catholic institutions to provide birth control, abortion drugs, and other contraceptive services which go against their faith?” These baffled, naïve people still do not get it. First and foremost, Obama is a hardcore leftist hater of America as we know it. He is laser-focused on implementing his vowed fundamental transformation of America into a socialistic, secular-progressive Disneyland.

As proven by their gleeful willingness to exempt Obama from the usual vetting process during his 2008 presidential campaign, the liberal mainstream media has given Obama every reason to be confident in their cover and support as Obama ignores the Constitution to fulfill his anti-America anti-freedom agenda.

For three years, we have witnessed Obama slowly peeling off his well-crafted “moderate” mask. Our first glimpse of the real Obama was his unprecedented government hostile takeover of private secular auto companies and his bullying banks to accept government bailouts.

Then, despite a majority of Americans screaming “No!” to ObamaCare, Obama basically said “screw y’all” and forced the passage of his health care bill. A Rasmussen poll that week showed that 55% of Americans wanted it repealed. It did not matter. The king had decreed it so. Displaying off-the-chain arrogance and dictatorial power, Obama’s enforcer, Nancy Pelosi, ruled that “[w]e have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it.” Yes, even Democrats who voted to pass the bill were clueless regarding its content. Obama revealed a little more of the man behind the mask.

Due to my commitment to make my point as concisely as possible, I will not list Obama’s unprecedented overreaching power-grabs, trashing of the Constitution, and crimes against individual freedoms. Let’s just say that Obama has revealed two-thirds of his true face. What we are seeing is more horrifying than anyone could have possibly imagined.

If un-repealed, ObamaCare will literally give this man (Obama) power to dictate which Americans live or die — that is, total control of our lives. Lord help us. Only God should have such power.

My black centenarian grandmother cried tears of joy when Obama was elected. Ironically, her hero’s government-controlled health care, which will be rationed, equals a death sentence for my grandma if she needs an expensive procedure. Economist Thomas Sowell points out that government health care will not reduce the cost; it will simply refuse to pay the cost. The sick, the elderly, and the disabled will suffer the most when the government rations care. Obama blatantly suggested that a senior might consider taking a pill rather than having surgery.

Clearly, Obama feels emboldened to do whatever he pleases. If Obama is arrogant enough to ignore the First Amendment and “dis” a huge bloc of Catholic supporters in an election year, think how full-blown, no-hold-barred, out-of-control his attacks on freedom will be if he is re-elected.

To save America, we must select a conservative nominee best capable of defeating Obama. I believe that candidate is Newt Gingrich or Rick Santorum.

Now, I respect y’all too much to blow smoke claiming Newt to be a great conservative. Frankly, his attacks on Bain Capital infuriated me. However, there are things I love about Newt. Newt is brilliant at articulating conservatism and experienced at successfully implementing conservative ideas. But most of all, Newt understands that the biggest, most destructive threat to America as we know it is Barrack Hussein Obama. And also extremely important is the fact that Newt is not intimidated by the “race thing.” Newt does not give a hoot about being called a racist. Newt is fearlessly eager to aggressively address America’s problem which is Obama.

Mitt Romney and Ron Paul are good, decent men. However, I do not believe that Romney has the stomach to say and do what needs to be done to defeat Obama. While I will enthusiastically support whichever of our candidates winning the Republican nomination, I disagree with Paul’s foreign policy ideas.

I really like Santorum. However, I am not confident that he can raise the funds necessary to override Obama’s billion-dollar campaign.

Also, right or wrong, like it or not, a presidential candidate has to have “it,” a special charisma. How else could an inexperienced freshman senator like Obama win the presidency of the United States? Newt Gingrich has “it.” Again, I admit, he “ain’t” perfect. But Newt does not wish to end America as we know it. Obama does and will!

Brother and sister patriot Americans, like Bonnie Tyler sang in her song, “I Need a Hero,” America desperately needs a hero. I believe that that person is Newt Gingrich or Rick Santorum.

If Obama is allowed to continue his occupation of the White House after November 6, 2012, he will boldly remove his mask, completely revealing his face. There will be weeping and gnashing of

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/02/america_desperately_needs_a_herobut_who.html#ixzz1m1nE0Pin
#14 February 10, 2012 at 6:22 pm
Patty commented:

teeth.

#13
#15 February 10, 2012 at 6:23 pm
Granny commented:

“Choose My Plate” – that must be some invention of the First “Lady”. There is absolutely NO way that I would anymore allow my child to enter personal information of this nature in a governmental database than I would allow the government to make them wear a monitor.
#17 February 10, 2012 at 6:43 pm
Patty commented:

My black centenarian grandmother cried tears of joy when Obama was elected. Ironically, her hero’s government-controlled health care, which will be rationed, equals a death sentence for my grandma if she needs an expensive procedure. Economist Thomas Sowell points out that government health care will not reduce the cost; it will simply refuse to pay the cost. The sick, the elderly, and the disabled will suffer the most when the government rations care. Obama blatantly suggested that a senior might consider taking a pill rather than having surgery.

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This is ironic, yes a healthy lifestyle will reduce health care cost. So, attack Obesity from an early age. With a healthy America there should be fewer people needing health care. Right?

The problem is their are diversities. These types of diversity, black lifestyle is different from let’s say Italian, Poor don’t eat for various reasons. I do understand that media is pushing exercise and good eating habits. And of course the schools are suppose to serve nutritious food but what is in that fish, chicken nugget and beef patties.

Look at what is served in schools.

If the kids were getting fresh and real food then maybe they would be healthier.

Here is what the Obama daughters eat:

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Do schools serve healthy treats or mystery meat? In California schools, frying foods is now out. Chicken nuggets and French fries are all baked. And New Jersey schools sell only small-sized sports drinks instead of soda. And many school cafeterias only offer whole-wheat chocolate-chip cookies.

At Sidwell Friends School, attended by Sasha and Malia Obama, regular lunch menu items include pumpkin and sage soup, free range egg salad, roasted chicken tenderloins and fresh organic strawberries.For a lunch menu like theirs, you’ll need to cough up big bucks for school tuition.

Meanwhile, non-Presidents’ kids have to speak up to get healthier, less fatty school lunch options.

But is it enough? There’s a new campaign challenging Congress to get even healthier school lunch options. They even got Spider-Man actor Tobey Maguire involved.

“School is tough enough already-students shouldn’t have to put up with lunches swimming in fat and cholesterol,” Tobey told Congress.  But for now, the easiest way to get a healthy lunch probably means packing your own.

http://tweentribune.com/content/cafeteria-food-mouth-watering-or-mystery-meat

SO, IF MO IS SO INTEND ON KIDS AND OBESITY, START SERVING ALL SCHOOLS WHAT YOUR KIDS GET TO EAT.

It is easy for the rich to send their kids to schools with fresh fruit and pumpkin sage soup.

Where does that happen but in schools for the pompous and elite.
http://schoollunchfoundguilty.wordpress.com/
#18 February 10, 2012 at 6:49 pm
xkaydet65 commented:

While this is another in a long line of govt intrusion and overreach, the Super Tracker name is taken from Weight Watchers Daily Tracker , a web page for its members to keep track of their points.
#19 February 10, 2012 at 7:01 pm
Adi commented:

We have a book: Healing Children Naturally, written by someone who actually has a PhD in nutrition, rather than being a self-appointed “specialist”.
#20 February 10, 2012 at 7:01 pm
Adi commented:

“Let them eat lettuce”.
#21 February 10, 2012 at 7:06 pm
exceller commented:

utter insanity. anyone who doesn’t see that our government is out of control is naive.
#22 February 10, 2012 at 7:23 pm
Granny commented:

#18 February 10, 2012 at 6:49 pm
xkaydet65 commented:

While this is another in a long line of govt intrusion and overreach, the Super Tracker name is taken from Weight Watchers Daily Tracker , a web page for its members to keep track of their points.
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There are a couple of those Spark People, Spark Teens and MyFitnessPal (which has apps for phones and iPad) come readily to mind. All three of the ones I mentioned are FREE and not associated with any plan or diet food you have to pay for. I would have no problem at all with my child participating in one of those. None of those are the government.
#23 February 10, 2012 at 7:27 pm
Scrapiron commented:

Go on the site and list the 100 pound of potato’s and two buffalo you ate and sign it Moochelle to make it believable.
#24 February 10, 2012 at 8:45 pm
gee! commented:

whats next the unionized food-police ……….coming house to house to check to see what foods you’re buying………..if you buy any kind snacks……..you’re have to pay fine………..i wouldn’t be suprise………..just sayin
#25 February 10, 2012 at 8:50 pm
Floyd commented:

Turning children into mindless slaves of government. They will be use to this before they become adults.
#26 February 10, 2012 at 8:57 pm
#1AMERICAN commented:

As a parent I would tell them to go suck my balls…fukkyou a holes and fukkk the govt BS…stay out of our live mooslime POS
#27 February 10, 2012 at 9:17 pm
Patty commented:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zSyvbVq7G8

Parents don’t know what is good for their kids.

LANSING, Mich. – During a legislative hearing at Michigan’s state capitol last week, a member of the education establishment made a stunning admission about how parents are viewed by the “experts.”

Debbie Squires, associate director of the Michigan Elementary and Middle School Principals Association, explained to members of the House Education Committee why her association opposed allowing more cyber (or online) schools to operate in the state.

“Educators go through education for a reason,” Squires said. “They are the people who know best about how to serve children. That’s not necessarily true of an individual resident. I’m not saying they don’t want the best for their children, but they may not know what actually is best from an education standpoint.”

Committee chairman Tom McMillin, a Republican, seemed taken aback by Squires’ comments.

“Wow … Parents don’t know what’s best for their child?” McMillin asked.
#28 February 10, 2012 at 9:21 pm
Patty commented:

In place of tracking devices and fill in the blanks on our personal information, which this government has all it already needs.

TEACH OUR KIDS SO THEY CAN BE UP TO PAR WITH JAPAN AND THE OTHER 40 NATIONS WHO ARE WAY AHEAD OF US.
Get rid of the stinking teachers, the perverts and those more interesting in having classes on Occupiers.

Do any of the above and save our kids from a future of flipping burgers for a living.

These people are a waste of tax payers money.
#29 February 10, 2012 at 9:50 pm
ebayer commented:

The STASI would be very proud of this Administration.
#30 February 10, 2012 at 9:50 pm
Patty commented:

It would be worth the republican candidate wild to start talking about the inaptness of the education system in American and our poor ranking. These kids need love, attention and a great education that will be rewarded when they become adults.

When children get enthused they are creative and want to keep learning and praise is their reward.

What has the Education become but a bunch of time wasted on irresponsible and embarrassments brought on by liberals who have nothing better to do with their time.

They need to be fired immediately and give those who want to teach for love of teaching.
Our ranking must be higher than

When it comes to the mathematics and sciences, U.S. students are lagging behind other countries.

It’s true. According to the U.S. Department of Education’s 2007 “Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study” (TIMSS), the U.S. trails behind the following countries in average mathematics scores:

Singapore
Taiwan
Japan
Republic of Korea
Hong Kong
Sweden
Netherlands
Hungary
Slovenia
#31 February 10, 2012 at 9:56 pm
Patty commented:

The education system is a disgrace and this ridiculous personal data information on eating habits has worsen the system. Someone has way too much time on their hands. They need to be taken to the woodshed. Then fired.

Seriously, this is another eye opener has to what liberals do best, nothing. Good food, great exercise such as P.E. but please educate our children while they are young to love learning. Many schools are doing it through computers and the kids are thriving and they can learn so much and will come to great eating habits through great education.

Parents and Teacher conferences are a great start and need to be mandatory.

These liberals need a good shaking.
#32 February 10, 2012 at 10:08 pm
Obama's elixir & Cool Aid commented:

Last year comrade Obama spent over a billion dollars on cellphones for the “poor.” Too bad all you rich capitalists have to work your asses off to support the unending war on poverty, a war that never ends, a war that has cost you plebes more than all the wars the USA has ever waged.

Yes the Alinskies are right. We will bury you.
#33 February 10, 2012 at 10:27 pm
tommy mc donnell commented:

#30 yeah but we’ll number one in food tracking.
#34 February 10, 2012 at 11:01 pm
gee! commented:

Wonder what questions ask…………….whats your address ……….how many are in your household………does your parents own a gun…………if so how many……………you bet your ass this has little to do with counting calories………..just sayin
#35 February 10, 2012 at 11:40 pm
Patty commented:

Tracking devices for everything. Our life is not our own but soon will be win we get rid of Obama in 2012 elections.

We have had it. More Americans are coming around and see just exactly what Obama has done. 5 trillion in debt and another S & P downgrade is looking likely. Obama decided to wait for that 1.2 trillion he asked for until after elections. Poor baby, he won’t be in White House after 12.
#37 February 11, 2012 at 5:41 am
wanumba commented:

Parents need to do TWO things:
1) drive their own kids to school themselves
2) pack lunches.

The % of school budgets for those two non-academic items is huge: busing and cafeterias.

3) schools out of the monopoly sports business – go to all club town teams that anyone can join

4) throw out the current crap curriculum and install an ENglish version of any achieving European or Asian curriculum. Singapore has the top math inthe world – it’s already in English and the texts are cheaper than the US useless heavyweight texts.

5) No facilitators. Fire them ALL. Rehire and hire ONLY people to pass competency exams in their claimed expertise.

Top curriculum is available, it doesn’t have to be invented It’s already there.

With some effort, all this could be accomplished over the summer months in time for reopening school. Top curriculum, complete ready to go, can be off loaded at any school within days of ordering.

The hardest thing is to find human being adults who have subject competencies… but many many 50 and over and retired DO. Many are willing to teach, and grew up having been actually TAUGHT, but have been blocked by union/education systems requirements for useless master degrees in useless education classes.

The Union and the Left would freak out and disrupt every move. They would tear a community apart before they would allow any of this.
Parents, so used to passing off their basic responsibilities to take care of their own kids would sniff around wanting cafeterias and busing and can’t let go of sports teams and the fact they rely on schools to BABYSIT, not teach …

It’s really not hard to fix at all. But the power-plays will insure that the system will collapse.
#38 February 11, 2012 at 5:56 am
wanumba commented:

#34 February 10, 2012 at 11:01 pm
gee! commented:

Wonder what questions ask…………….whats your address ……….how many are in your household………does your parents own a gun…………if so how many……………you bet your ass this has little to do with counting calories………..just sayin
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THe culture problem is why kids are willing to answer this without a natural family loyalty edit function. WIth kids at school so much of their days, they have more responsiveness to school demands than to their own parents.
Parents allowed this … they were not challenging any of the intrusions or regular abuses the schools imposed on students.

For example: one boy was bullying his usual victim. Instead of dealing with the ONE kid, well known for this, TWO entire grades of boys who had nothing to do with it were ordered in to three hours of detention over the weekend .. called “seminar” to be lectured on “bullying,” with parent told to go to “bullying websites” to read example after example after example of southern white crackers being the bad guys.

The school back-pedaled when called out for this unfair mass punishment of innocent boys. ONE parent complained out of over two dozen families. The majority of parents didn’t perceive that their kid needed to be defended, not punished for something he didn’t do. The kids notice that their families don’t care about the genuine injustices they have to put with daily. They get cynical.

They learn to be passive, or they flame out and drop out when they’ve had enough.

There’s so much bundled into these things that enable this invasive power grab.
#39 February 11, 2012 at 6:17 am
Erik commented:

“This data will be combined with that from other government departments (who are all sharing data now) to develop regulations about the foods Americans will be allowed to eat.”

That’s a best case scenario. Taken experiences from countries that does have Government Healthcare, I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s used as a reason not to pay for medical care.
“So I see you dont eat healthy? Well, then there’s really nothing in it for the State to pay for your medical procedures.”
This will be described as “cost savings”.
#40 February 11, 2012 at 6:33 am
obfuscatenot commented:

“Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have planted will never be uprooted.” – Lenin

#38 the “mass punishments” are beginning to wear on me too. Personal responsibility is no longer taught at school it’s all about the collective, and life’s not fair get used to it. (Except of course for the teachers) That’s different, they keep the unions in business, kids can’t vote.
#41 February 11, 2012 at 7:42 am
RedBeard commented:

I blame today’s parents (certainly not all, but a disturbingly large and growing percentage) as being the prime culprits in this disgusting state of affairs. If not for parents abdicating their roles, it would be a lot more difficult for the apparatchiks of the state to insinuate themselves where they have absolutely no business.

Parents, it’s high time you revolted. Stop letting government rear your children, and insist that schools be used to teach your kids how to read, how to add and subtract, and what really happened in history. You know, like something approaching a real EDUCATION.

The Nanny State can only be stopped if the people rise up. And that rising is what Obama and every liberal and leftist work 24/7 to prevent, by making more and more people wholely dependent on the state.
#42 February 11, 2012 at 8:12 am
wanumba commented:

#40 February 11, 2012 at 6:33 am
obfuscatenot commented:

“Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have planted will never be uprooted.” – Lenin

#38 the “mass punishments” are beginning to wear on me too. Personal responsibility is no longer taught at school it’s all about the collective, and life’s not fair get used to it. (Except of course for the teachers) That’s different, they keep the unions in business, kids can’t vote.
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Lenin picked up from the scriptures, “Teach a child and he will not depart from it when he’s grown.” Good is taught, evil is taught.

There’s something else that is going on. Even when the kids leave school, it follows them home and eats their private time : busywork HOMEWORK.

WHen schools do nothing, academic achievement falls, the parents demand results, the schools then make mandatory three hours of homework a night and parents, who if they THOUGHT about it for three seconds and would realize THEY wouldn’t accept that of their jobs – to continue working HOURS at home after work – agree.

They allow the schools to dominate their kids’ lives into the late nights – the kids have no real break, they can’t work, they can’t do other activities, they are in a constant state of dreary busywork drudgery. The kids are yelled at for becoming jaded and lazy about work. It’s always the kids’ fault, yet adults – schools and parents both – pile on the wrong type of burdens on kids that they would NEVER accept as reasonable for themselves. The kids are drowning and no one

Our high schooler is in the French national education system right now. He has fewer school hours per week and 1/10th of the after school homework. The system is this:

The teachers TEACH. They make the students do all the work under their supervision, in class, they send them home with a small bit of homework – no more than two math problems instead of 100, and the kids do whatever they want for the rest of the day, not the teachers’ problem or interest. The students are not overloaded, they stay FRESH and they are two-three years academically ahead of American students. Texbooks are a reasonable size, and the info in them is actually covered during the year,not massive, impossible to finish US textbooks that are three times the price and weigh a ton. More waste, more costs.

Our public school system EXHAUSTS and dulls our students – wears them out without giving them proper skills. Off to college and they drop out – never actually prepared for higher level work. The students are then confirmed that they are losers.

Our students are drowning in oppressive burdens, but all parents see is declining scores and increasing sullenness so they panic and demand more – the schools in true rotten-ness never fix the teaching or curriculum, they dump more loads on the students. A truly vicious cycle.
#43 February 11, 2012 at 8:44 am
tommy mc donnell commented:

america the land of the free. how the hell did this country grow and thrive without all this government control?
#45 February 11, 2012 at 10:34 am
tek commented:

If you see snacks, say something.

You can use a general plan, or set up a user profile. Oh, and you can relax… They do not knowingly collect personal information about children. This, despite the fact that kids are being directed there.

The privacy policy says that they are not storing personally identifiable information, which would seem questionable if you create a profile. They store IP addresses and Internet domain you access the system from, browser and OS type, pages visited, and site referrer. They set both session and persistent browser cookies.

For setting up a user profile, you choose a name (you are told not to use legal name), provide age, gender, level of physical activity, height, and weight. To presumably save the profile, you also provide password, choose one of the canned password security questions, provide the answer for the question, and then your ( one would guess non-personally identifiable) email address.

Kids should not be posting health-related information online. Anywhere.
#46 February 11, 2012 at 10:47 am
doc commented:

I don’t have their names, their pictures or their office location. But I will bet they exist, this article proves it. They are some union protected school bureaucrats who are only competent enough to show up most of the time and have invented this Big Brother scheme to justify their continued bloatted salaries and benefits. School bureaucrats fail to teach yet learn how to rip off taxpayers and trample the rights of chidren.
#47 February 11, 2012 at 3:39 pm
JBD commented:

Are we the government’s property or are we free men and women? I wonder what creative penalty they have for people who simple lie on the surveys or refuse to take it. It is an unconstitutional invasion of privacy.

{^_^}
#48 February 11, 2012 at 8:20 pm
tahDeetz commented:

Get ‘em conditioned early!!

tD