Steady Diet of Testing Same as Steady Diet of Double Cheeseburgers

As the curriculum gets narrower, kids get wider, claims a forthcoming documentary on the childhood obesity epidemic.

Filmmaker Steven Greenstreet interviewed teachers for his documentary, “Killer at Large,” and the Deseret Morning News reports that he finds a number of school-based reasons for the childhood obesity crisis. School lunches and junk food in school vending machines play a part, but NCLB’s emphasis on what’s tested at the expense of P.E. and health curricula is also to blame, he says.

Luckily, Richard Simmons has already joined the NCLB debate.

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