MODESTO, Calif. – Modesto officials want to discourage school staff from anything that would make overweight students aware of their size as part of a remake of the district’s wellness policy.

The Modesto City Schools board recently discussed changes to the district’s wellness policy, a move precipitated by new federal regulations on school snack foods promoted by First Lady Michelle Obama.

The proposed policy changes in Modesto would ban foods for bake sales and vending machines that don’t comply with state and federal limitations on calories, sugar, salt, fat and other nutritional standards, the Modesto Bee reports.

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And then there’s this.

“The policy also addresses bullying because of body size, urging teachers and staff to avoid practices that single out students on the basis of size, and avoid games that limit participation and success by varied body types. The old, take-a-lap response to misbehavior would also be discouraged under the new policy,” according to the news site.

In other words, teachers and other school staff must tippy toe around the fact that many young students are overweight, if not obese. The policy calls for a renewed focus on physical education in elementary, and things like bike racks at all schools, which are certainly good. But it also seems to create a protected class for overweight students.

The special provisions for overweight students also opens the door to other possibilities. Many students are teased because of speech impediments, their haircut, their accent, clothing, income, wearing glasses, and myriad of other reasons. Perhaps teachers should be required to work around all of those potential issues, as well.

The Modesto board discussed the wellness policy revisions during its regular board meeting Monday, and is set for a final vote soon. Most of the talk on the new plan centered on how the new food rules would impact student fundraising or school operations. Current fundraising items like since candy and cookie dough sales during the school day will be outlawed.

“I’d advise staff to brace for some pushback on the fundraising,” board vice president Amy Elliot Neumann said, according to the Bee. “People are very careful about what they feed their kids, and they don’t want to be told what they can feed their children. It seems judgmental.”

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School officials have already removed vending machines from schools, but students are complaining that it’s now causing ridiculously long lunch lines.

“Parents are telling me their children are standing in such long lines, they aren’t getting lunch,” parent advocate Debbie Barrera said, according to the new site. “There is a problem.”

Student school board member Riley Noland agreed.

“The lines are very long,” he said.

Modesto resident Jolynn Mancini Wilder offered a possible contributing factor for the lunch backups in the Facebook comments.

“One reason there are long lines is due to the fact that this year Modesto high schools changed from two lunch periods to having all students in one lunch period,” Wilder posted.