too FAT to graduate from college?

[PRO®]

And it is discrimination. It's denying someone their cheeseburger because of how they look. That's like telling an ugly girl that she can't graduate until she puts on some makeup. I mean, really??

Your example was horrible by the way. Makeup doesn't fix being ugly, being ugly Is NOT one of the leading causes of death in America, and like someone else said, being fat is a choice for most people(meaning yes, there is a small percentage who actually have a "thyroid problem")...a choice to keep consuming food/not exercise...being ugly is not a choice. And if I didn't mention it already, that was a hooorrrrible analogy. 300,000 people in the US die yearly from obesity. Never heard of any health risks involved with being ugly.

[roxie911]

Your example was horrible by the way. Makeup doesn't fix being ugly, being ugly Is NOT one of the leading causes of death in America, and like someone else said, being fat is a choice for most people(meaning yes, there is a small percentage who actually have a "thyroid problem")...a choice to keep consuming food/not exercise...being ugly is not a choice. And if I didn't mention it already, that was a hooorrrrible analogy. 300,000 people in the US die yearly from obesity. Never heard of any health risks involved with being ugly.

Uhm, that was a really SMALL part of my main point...which was you can't change someone if they themselves do not want to change. Yes, it was a horrible example to prove a point that you can't deny someone's education/diploma based on their looks.

discrimination: treatment or consideration of, or making a distinction in favor of or against, a person or thing based on the group, class, or category to which that person or thing belongs rather than on individual merit.

Yes, this is discrimination.

[Bajjani]

Uhm, that was a really SMALL part of my main point...which was you can't change someone if they themselves do not want to change. Yes, it was a horrible example to prove a point that you can't deny someone's education/diploma based on their looks.

discrimination: treatment or consideration of, or making a distinction in favor of or against, a person or thing based on the group, class, or category to which that person or thing belongs rather than on individual merit.

Yes, this is discrimination.

Maybe it will motivate them to get off their ass and save their own life? Maybe after working out some of them WILL continue? So if you fail a fat kid in PE in elementary school because he cant run because hes fat, how is it different really, he isn't going to graduate without being able to complete it. They can make it real easy to get around that, make everyone take a PE class and part of the goal of the PE class is to reach a certain body fat %. Those above it have to continue for X months or until it is reached. The others pass. Problem solved, its not discrimination, its a new school requirement.

[roxie911]

Maybe it will motivate them to get off their ass and save their own life? Maybe after working out some of them WILL continue? So if you fail a fat kid in PE in elementary school because he cant run because hes fat, how is it different really, he isn't going to graduate without being able to complete it. They can make it real easy to get around that, make everyone take a PE class and part of the goal of the PE class is to reach a certain body fat %. Those above it have to continue for X months or until it is reached. The others pass. Problem solved, its not discrimination, its a new school requirement.

Some of them might, yes. It's discrimination because they're only making the "obese kids" take it. I thought of this the first time too, but I went back and read it again and if they were making every kid take it for the same amount of time as everyone else, then yes, it would be fine. But they're not.