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Brickbat: Fat, Fat the Water Rat

Charles Oliver | 5.27.2014 6:00 AM

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Gwendolyn Williams stands 4 feet 1 inch tall and weighs 66 pounds. According to a letter sent to her parents by the New York City school system, that makes the 9-year-old girl overweight. The school system sent some 870,000 "Fitnessgrams" home with students recently.

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Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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