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AwakeAtLast

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12. I have been a teacher for 16 years

Wed Oct 8, 2014, 09:18 PM

Oct 2014

and a Music teacher at that.

I have noticed that over the past 16 years more and more students expect to sit back and be entertained. Asking some of them to move or actually do something is asking a lot.

School schedules also don't help - schools have cut recess from at least 60 minutes a day to barely 20. Some schools don't have any recess.

I will say that I don't have very many diabetic students, though, and maybe a few more than average that are obese.

I really think if you fix poverty and our food supply, you will fix obesity.

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kids are diebetic and obese?..I wonder why [View all] backwoodsbob Oct 2014 OP

And what about all the scheduled activities? Iris Oct 2014 #1

what about going outside and playing? backwoodsbob Oct 2014 #3

Also the all about fear parents who watch cable and will not let their kids out to play lunasun Oct 2014 #5

Parents watch too many cop shows Warpy Oct 2014 #6

I think partly it goes back to how times have changed. AngryOldDem Oct 2014 #7

Both the Duggar and duck Dynasty families yeoman6987 Oct 2014 #8

I guess that's one solution... AngryOldDem Oct 2014 #15

So true yeoman6987 Oct 2014 #20

Amen. We moved two years ago to the neighborhood our kid's school is in and love it joeglow3 Oct 2014 #29

And it's sad. AngryOldDem Oct 2014 #44

It is one of the reasons we send our kids to the Catholic school we do joeglow3 Oct 2014 #45

I don't mean to be a downer but being in a nice neighborhood can be deceiving. liberal_at_heart Oct 2014 #46

Thanks for the reminder! yeoman6987 Oct 2014 #52

There is also a hyper-protectionism of children Thav Oct 2014 #21

Calorie intake is the issue phil89 Oct 2014 #30

As someone working very hard to lose weight, I agree hedgehog Oct 2014 #41

Obesity Rate for Young Children Plummets 43% in a Decade HuckleB Oct 2014 #2

then all the screeds about childhood obesity and diabetes are over backwoodsbob Oct 2014 #4

Nope, sorry -- the OP saw fat kids on a bus. That never happened when he was little. Brickbat Oct 2014 #9

+1 HuckleB Oct 2014 #14

.... Luminous Animal Oct 2014 #10

that headline was immediately debunked KurtNYC Oct 2014 #23

That was one critique. HuckleB Oct 2014 #25

The AUTHORS of the study never made the cherry picked assertion that was in that headline. KurtNYC Oct 2014 #31

LOL! HuckleB Oct 2014 #48

Recess is seen as an "extra" that schools can cut down on to allow for extra MissB Oct 2014 #11

and more and more schools are afraid to let kids play SoCalDem Oct 2014 #42

I have been a teacher for 16 years AwakeAtLast Oct 2014 #12

A Music teacher? One of my favorite people. I had some wonderful music teachers when I was young. BlueJazz Oct 2014 #37

Well, thank you! AwakeAtLast Oct 2014 #39

It's not nearly as simple as you'd like. jeff47 Oct 2014 #13

Yep, the lack of infrastructure definitely has a lot to do with it. GoCubsGo Oct 2014 #36

I'm not seeing it FreeJoe Oct 2014 #16

absolutely right. cali Oct 2014 #17

My daughter was always out playing... meaculpa2011 Oct 2014 #18

I wasn't a helicopter parent. jen63 Oct 2014 #19

weight and health are not necessarily linked. Adrahil Oct 2014 #22

Increased use of antibiotics, increase in poverty, and general malnutrition KurtNYC Oct 2014 #24

You take one study, with a fairly small increase in concern, and then make a claim... HuckleB Oct 2014 #26

Journal of Pediatrics, Oct 2014 - University of Washington and Seattle Children's Hospital KurtNYC Oct 2014 #33

You try to claim cherry picking above, even though it doesn't make sense, and then you do it here. HuckleB Oct 2014 #49

Brainwash nation that has been brainwashed to obesity and brainwashed into thinking it is acceptable Fred Sanders Oct 2014 #27

What? HuckleB Oct 2014 #28

I live just around the corner from my kid's bus stop and I pick him up. liberal_at_heart Oct 2014 #32

They also eat a lot of crap. GoCubsGo Oct 2014 #34

I ate all sorts of sugary breakfast cereals back in the '60s Art_from_Ark Oct 2014 #40

I did, too. GoCubsGo Oct 2014 #43

I just couldn't eat the unsweetened cereal back then Art_from_Ark Oct 2014 #50

You must live in a fat neighborhood because I don't see this. dilby Oct 2014 #35

When I was growing up, California schools required 1 hour of PE daily mainer Oct 2014 #38

When school budgets are cut, PE is usually on the chopping block. MissB Oct 2014 #47

German schools require NO gym classes Nevernose Oct 2014 #53

bullshit. both boys, no fat kids in their sphere. not saying there are not fat kids. seabeyond Oct 2014 #51

Post removed Post removed Oct 2014 #54

Diabetes DustyJoe Oct 2014 #55