 is it the states place to be monitoring and tracking the bmi indexes of school age children  yes 10 4 votes no 85 35 votes undecided 5 2 votes total votes 41 recording bmi on school age children i suspect some misguided bureaucrat is suggesting this but this does not seem a high priority for state government and if there is an issue on which i feel gov snyder is failing us it is in recognizing and acting in concert with other states to derail obamacare any putative savings from coercing parents to feed children differently will be eaten alive by the federal mandates for spending in such areas while senior care will get rationed it just sounds too much like the typically invasive washington dc policy position it takes a lot of people to do any type of survey and for it to be ongoing you are just feeding bureaucratic jobs i am in favor of minimal bureaucracy overriding the voting mandates and the legislative representative process greg palen bmi tracking of kids the state has no right to get involved in keeping data on individuals kids or anyone else it is a personal rights and privacy issue who is going to have access to this data how it will be used and what will be the actions the state or any other entity may make if they determine they need to be take to address the issue through potential future legislation   vote click this link  