PLEASANT HILL, Iowa – An Iowa middleschooler was recently sent to the principal’s office after she refused to be weighed in front of her classmates as part of her school’s fitness program.

“I don’t feel like it’s [the school’s] business,” Southeast Polk Junior High student Ireland Hobert-Hoch told the Des Moines Register. “I feel like it’s my doctor and my mom and my own business — or maybe not even my own, because I don’t need to know that right now.”

Hobert-Hoch and her classmates were participating in the FitnessGram program and the teacher was recording their height, weight and body mass index when she refused to step on the scale in front of the class. The teen is slim, and didn’t refuse out of shame, but isn’t interested in fixating on what her weight should be.

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Hobert-Hoch, who is a straight-A student and “not one to cause problems” according to her mother, was sent to speak to the principal about her defiance.

Principal Mike Daily said Hobert-Hoch wasn’t sent to his office because she refused to be weighed, but because of how her refusal “was presented to the teacher,” whatever that means. He didn’t elaborate.

“The issue anytime a student is sent to the office refers more to the situation and how it has escalated – not necessarily the event at hand,” Daily told the Huffington Post. “I know saying, ‘Hey, we’ve always done this’ is not a good explanation,” but the measurements are part of a bigger assessment program.

“If it gives kids feedback, that helps,” he said.

Daily said the program was in place when he came to the district four years ago, but the school board is expected to take up the issue at an upcoming meeting because of the situation.

Hobert-Hoch’s mother stands behind her daughter, and said that her daughter has been “very happy” since the family removed the scale in their home, according to the Post.

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“It’s very common among young girls, and even women, to become obsessed with the number on the scale,” Heather Hobert-Hoch said.

School officials attempted to persuade Hobert-Hoch and her mother to consent to recording the teen’s weight in a private place, but that’s not the point, they said.

“She doesn’t want her weight taken anywhere,” Heather Hobert-Hoch said.

The Post reports it’s not the first time students and parents have taken issue with the FitnessGram program.

“Earlier this year, the FitnessGram program was criticized when one third grader in New York City was given a letter from her school calling her ‘overweight,’ because she weighed one pound more than the average for her height and age. The child’s mother said the information should have been mailed directly home, instead of being given to students,” according to the news site.

“My daughter is thin. She knows she doesn’t have a weight problem. But that night, I caught her grabbing the skin near her waist, and she asked me, ‘Is this what they were talking about?”‘ the girl’s mother, Laura Williams, told Fox. “It was awful to see.”