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To: Road Walker who wrote (526244)	11/5/2009 2:00:08 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1579124

Some of the lucky bastards actually get to meet the sports stars that they play in the game. Again I'm not taking about celebrities... I'm talking about looking up to other kids that are jocks. Somehow I can't see the obese kid looking up to the best pitcher on his high school team. Probably wrong. The problem isn't that these kids don't look up to the more athletic kids in school.....they've just given up. They are overweight because they are depressed and disconnected. Its the same psyche condition that goes out and kills a few kids in a school and then commits suicide. Today's kids are suffering from what psychologists call anomie....a strong alienation....that results from a whole bunch of factors. And let me add to that, I don't think the boys in school are getting treated as well as the girls. Most teachers are women......and I have seen too many that favor the girls over the boys. My mentor teacher was great but she had a lot of trouble with the boys in her class.....something she did not acknowledge. When I took over, the boys responded very quickly to me. More than a few of them went from D's to B's and A's by the end of the semester. Boys that were disciplinary problems at the beginning of the semester were well behaved by the end of the semester. The worst student.....a guy I thought was a total loser.....first, turned out to be a great artist. He would always go to sleep in my class. When he wasn't sleeping, he was flirting with the girls. Finally, I asked him what was his problem. He told me he stayed up drawing until 1 AM every nite. I said that's unacceptable. I said its great that you like to draw, and frankly, I would like to see your work, but you need to stop drawing by 10 PM. The next day he came in wide awake. Never slept in my class again. And the dude got an A on the last test I gave. I was shocked.....he was shocked. We both started laughing. Our kids are the key to our future and we are failing them.

To: Road Walker who wrote (526244)	11/5/2009 2:12:14 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579124

RW, > Again I'm not taking about celebrities... I'm talking about looking up to other kids that are jocks. Somehow I can't see the obese kid looking up to the best pitcher on his high school team. Probably wrong. Well, it's complicated. I think high school these days is much more defined by cliques than by who's popular and who's not. Sure, the high school jocks get the most girls and the cheerleaders get the most guys, but the majority of high school students are just comfortable within their own circle of friends. Some of them play video games all day, some play basketball or street hockey, some start up garage bands, some love to skateboard and listen to punk rock music, some get piercings and dress completely goth, etc. There's no simple answer to the question of why our kids are becoming heavier and heavier. It's most likely a byproduct of our post-modern culture where everything is taken for granted. Tenchusatsu