Pa college requires overweight students to take fitness class
Thursday, November 26th, 2009
By Megan Kole
Overweight students at a Pennsylvania college have just one more semester to take a fitness class if they want to graduate this spring.
Three years ago Lincoln University, a historically black college in Chester County, announced that all obese students would be required to take a class that teaches healthy living before they could graduate.
Michael Sachs with Temple University's College of Health Professions says the class could work, but just targeting overweight students sends wrong message.
Sachs: Just because one is at a healthy weight may just be a combination of good genes and reasonable eating patterns, but it doesn't mean your eating in a healthy manner number one and It doesn't mean your fit or in shape at all either.
The new rule was enacted in 2006 and next years graduating class will be the first affected. Lincoln University officials say about 80 students have not yet met the requirement.
Unreal. The rules/requirements should be for everyone. Not for a specific class or target. That's discrimination.
Schools in general are just a joke and a waste of money. Schools are nothing but broken promises and dreams. They teach people nothing of real value. The only thing schools teach is how to be subservient under a "one world government". No free thinking, no creativity, no independence in schools.
Better off using the internet for learning and education. You learn a lot more than being inside the box. A degree/diploma is nothing but a piece of paper.