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For the first time since I was 19, I am official 'not overweight' according to those wretched charts (even if my friends all think that I now look sunken-cheeked). As many of you know, this has come about through a combination of grief, will-power, exploratory cooking and taking up lots of physically demanding hobbies. So, I have Ideas about how what we eat and what we do can affect the quality of lives.
Since I'm training to be a teacher, these inevitably feed into my ideas about the role that schools should play in promoting good quality of life. I have a sneaking suspicion that I could make some people rather upset with them...
Do you think that adults involved in education have a special duty to be good role-models for children? Let us take it as a given that the primary responsibility for health lies with the individual, and for minors, with their responsible adults. So, do parents have a special duty to be good role models to their children? Although school canteens have to provide food that children will actually eat, should the schools also be taking active steps to influence pupils into healthier eating habits? What about PE teachers - do they do enough for the students who aren't particularly 'sporty' (apparently, people now think of me as 'sporty' - at school, I was fat four-eyes who was usually second-last in running and picked near-last for teams)? Should junk food be banned in staffrooms, and smokers be banned from teaching? Should teachers and parents be required to demonstrably take care of their own health?
Should we just let the kids grow up as they will, and die when they die, even if they pre-decease their parents?
Since I'm training to be a teacher, these inevitably feed into my ideas about the role that schools should play in promoting good quality of life. I have a sneaking suspicion that I could make some people rather upset with them...
Do you think that adults involved in education have a special duty to be good role-models for children? Let us take it as a given that the primary responsibility for health lies with the individual, and for minors, with their responsible adults. So, do parents have a special duty to be good role models to their children? Although school canteens have to provide food that children will actually eat, should the schools also be taking active steps to influence pupils into healthier eating habits? What about PE teachers - do they do enough for the students who aren't particularly 'sporty' (apparently, people now think of me as 'sporty' - at school, I was fat four-eyes who was usually second-last in running and picked near-last for teams)? Should junk food be banned in staffrooms, and smokers be banned from teaching? Should teachers and parents be required to demonstrably take care of their own health?
Should we just let the kids grow up as they will, and die when they die, even if they pre-decease their parents?
