EDITORIAL FAT FARMS.

THE problem with kids these days, the experts tell us, is they're fat. And they're fat because not only do they eat too much junk, but they're lazy.

Gee, where could they learn such behavior? Here's one possibility: at school.

Take the Los Angeles Unified School District, which in 2002 banned the sale of sugary sodas on its campuses, thereby addressing the dietary part of the obesity problem.

As for the laziness part, well, the district hasn't quite gotten around to dealing with that yet. Four years after the soda ban, a new study shows that the district still doesn't give most of its students the state-mandated minimum of physical education.

But then, banning something is pretty easy -- it can be done with the stroke of a pen. Getting kids to move, on the other hand, well, that might force some district bureaucrats to move, too.

And they don't like that any more than kids do.