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Originally posted by lurkette
My problem is not that a solution is being made available, I just think there are better, cheaper solutions than shipping your kid off so someone else can deal with it. If it works to instill some good, healthy habits in the kids, great! But as ShaniFaye points out, what happens when these kids go back to real life where their diet is not proscribed and they don't have someone yapping at their heels making them go on hikes? It just seems to me to be a lazy way out of changing your child's lifestyle.
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I agree that this school is not a fix all (esp since i know very little about it's proposed curriculum) and that there will be certain challenges when returning back to everyday life. However, it is dangerous to imply that being in shape is a wholly individual choice that can be forced onto someone by just yelling at them to exercise more. I think it is becoming more and more obvious that our society is not an environment that encourages healthy life style choices and while adults might be expected to overcome societal influences i do not think we can always expect children to be able to. sometimes removing someone from their temptations in order to teach them healthy choices is a good thing, treatment facilities do so successfully with drug addicts all of the time.
it is prudent to worry about whether the lessons taught in the isolated school environment will be easily carried over once the children leave the school this sort of logic is just as relevant with *any* school lesson. I don't fault you for raising such issues, i do however fault those among us who like to believe that overweight children is a personal or family problem and not a societal one.