{"id":20465,"date":"2016-04-02T09:43:31","date_gmt":"2016-04-02T13:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/?p=20465"},"modified":"2016-04-02T09:43:31","modified_gmt":"2016-04-02T13:43:31","slug":"girl-asked-bmi-test-answer-brilliantly-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/girl-asked-bmi-test-answer-brilliantly-great\/","title":{"rendered":"An 8th-Grade Girl Was Asked About BMI On A Test. Her Answer Took Her Teacher To School!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When an Indiana eighth-grader was asked about BMI in class, she took her teacher to school.<\/strong><\/p>\n A few weeks before this student got a BMI assignment, every student in the class was weighed in front of their peers and made to calculate their BMI, or body mass index. According to the student’s mother, her daughter came home in tears after the exercise. She’s perfectly healthy, she eats well and she’s active … but according to her BMI, she was “obese.”<\/p>\n BMI is a system where ones weight is measured in relation to their height. Your BMI number will tell you which one of four categories you ‘belong’ to\u00a0\u2014 underweight, normal, overweight, or obese.<\/p>\n All of this caused quite a bit of frustration for the young girl, which in return caused her to write a wonderful, long answer on her class assignment about BMI.<\/p>\n Here are the questions she had to answer :<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n She could have easily answered the question in direct fashion. Maybe quoting the definition of BMI and simply writing her calculated BMI for question two.<\/p>\n