Why would a school district want to know if a student was born by c-section?

[RandomAnthony]

http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2011/0...

This confuses me.

[~Geektastic~]

I don't know if I would want my kid going to that school; it sounds like they are trying to make generalizations about behavior and intelligence based on birth. Or they are conducting a very poorly veiled scientific study. Either way it sounds vaguely like something out of a dystopian sci-fi novel.

[Heidi]

Even if it was being collected for research purposes, the data would be invalid without a disclosure stating that they're asking the questions for research purposes and why and what they plan to do with the data, etc. This is very strange.

[Janice]

I can understand the school wanting to know if a child has allergies, asthma, etc. But how the child was delivered is not relevant and those questions shouldn't be there.

[RandomAnthony]

This is so weird to me because, as Heidi implied, the data are irrelevant. And if the data are irrelevant, then dangerous and inaccurate generalizations, as Amber said, could follow.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Fucked up, man. But the Onion coverage was funny.

[[deleted user]]

If a school district would ask that question, then that's a school district I wouldn't want to send my children to.

None of your fucking business.