justbeginning

OMG fat calipers? It's almost as if they strive to make it as humiliating as possible. You have to wonder about these teachers, they should know better. I didn't worry about fat calipers, they weren't even invented when I was in junior high! It doesn't seem as if they are as bad in school these days, at least I didn't hear that from my kids. Other kids, that's another story. My poor daughter had kids in the neighborhood harassing her about her weight, they even spray painted in the road in our neighborhood that she was a cow. I think I was more infuriated and devastated than she was. Thank goodness that is over now and she is starting college! Deb

Hi, I was banded on August 14, 2007 and have gained lots of great information reading here but have never posted. This post, however, struck a chord for me. Threw me right back to junior high school when my biggest worry was whether they would have a gym suit big enough for me. Of course it was an embarrassing ordeal in front of the whole class, sort of like when they weighed me in third grade! Someone went back and told the class I weighed 130 (in third grade). I guess these humiliations start early and keep on going. I don't have any great advice for dealing with these situations, except to say that in the long run, they do make you a more understanding and empathetic person. Deb