Pennsylvania’s Lincoln University 2006 curriculum has come under fire as it is time for the students of 2006 to graduate. The fitness class policy states that students with a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or higher must either lower their BMI below 30 or take a one-unit course called “Fitness for Life”, or they can’t graduate. Students fir back saying “It’s not up to Lincoln to tell me how much my BMI should be” while James L. DeBoy, chair of Lincoln’s department of health, physical education, and recreation, defends the rule saying : We, as educators, must tell students when we believe, in our heart of hearts, when certain factors, certain behaviors, attitudes, whatever, are going to hinder that student from achieving and maximizing their life goals,” as quoted in CNN news earlier today.
This might remind us of the not to old law in Japan, that makes it is illegal to be fat, with fines for people that have a waist circumference over the normal.