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Kids are being sent home from school with "at risk of obesity" letters

Sensitive parents are putting up a stink:

Jasmine is one of 139 students at the school who came home last week with a height and weight screening referral letter. Though similar letters went to nearly half of the school’s 295 students, Jasmine’s mother, Vicki Elliott, said she is unhappy because the letters not only single out easily rattled youngsters for being “fat,” it’s none of the school’s business.

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