Sticky Situations: Should schools weigh our kids?

Oh boy this is a sticky bun situation!

A new proposal designed to combat Australia's child obesity epidemic has suggested children's height and weight should be measured every two years at school.

The proposal, put forward by the Global Obesity Centre at Deakin University says the data collected could map childhood obesity around Australia to better target where the problem is at its worse.

Mums and Dads of Australia are not impressed.

A lot of parents say they don’t trust schools to handle an issue like weight sensitively and worry about teasing and bullying but other students.

But the government has a responsibility to keep track of things like childhood obesity.  And kids get dental checks at school so why is this different?

Well bad teeth aren’t often the cause of mental health issues.  Whereas on some blogs Mums were saying they were weighed at school and it tipped them into disordered eating.

So, would you be happy if your kids were weighed at school?

The 9Honey superstars Shauna Anderson, Jane De Graaf and Jo Abi weighed in on this debate (did you see what I did there?) in the video above.