Schools and parents contribute to student poor health and lack of college attendance

Combine poverty, the poor choices of readily available snacks and sugary drinks in schools and recreational areas, the sedentary lifestyle of children entertained by television and computers, and high-carbohydrate, high-fat diets at home with the female body and problems arise quickly. The younger a child is when they begin to lose muscle and replace it with fat, the more difficult it becomes to stem the tide of obesity in middle and high school. The potential of these children is crushed by shame and the deep emotional scars caused by stigmatization and ostracism from their peers.

According to a recent study from the University of Texas at Austin, obese girls are half as likely to attend college as non-obese girls (Crosnoe, R. 2007). the popular TV show “The Biggest Loser” is available to a few lucky contestants. If our school systems are to move away from the importance of memorizing important facts year after year, they are now available in seconds on the computer and change your curriculum. Introduce health classes that truly produce tough bodied, drug and alcohol free youth, parenting classes that produce savvy parents with knowledge of my “Compassionate Parenting” based on child development markers, and savvy, money-savvy business minds.

Make these required and prerequisites for important but advanced classes like trigonometry, chemistry, and Spanish that few students need or use in their future. I propose that schools spend time building strong, healthy bodies with organic nutrition, stretching, dance, cardio, and weight lifting every day and watch their discipline problems, dropout rates, drug and alcohol use, and levels plummet. of boredom. Children who sit in rows for seven hours a day fed sugar and fake wheat are dying, not thriving.