Two Teachers on our Fat Youth Alright cunts (relax, it's a term of endearment), so I've got an interesting bit of dialogue for you all. So I had the opportunity to talk to a couple of teachers, one in her 60's and the other in her 40's, about various situations of our youth. Now while the entire conversation could potentially be used as a greentext (although the main topic was more on the lack of proper administration at schools), it'll be easier to just present you the juicy bits. Both of these teachers have been doing this since they were in their 20's and have always taught all high school age ranges, so one has been teaching for half of her life and the other for a whopping two thirds of her life. Now I may be misquoting slightly, but I'll do my best to paraphrase. So were there as many overweight kids when you started teaching? Nope, back in the 80's and even the 90's you'd get maybe 1 or 2 chubby kids, but you wouldn't really pay it any mind. It gradually got worse to the point where some classes are one third fat kids. The most overweight kids when I started teaching were maybe 5-10kg overweight, but now we've seen kids as much as double what they should be. It's definitely gotten worse, and across all age groups too, in the past 10 years especially. What about the parents. Do the fat kids have fat parents? Yes, it's rare that when a child is fat that they have both parents being normal weight. Usually both parents are overweight, and sometimes only one parent is overweight. They're also usually more difficult to deal with, less patient, adopt the whole 'my child can do no wrong' attitude. Does it cause any issues while teaching? Somewhat. Because of uniforms some of the extremely heavy kids demand the air conditioning to be turned on when everyone else is rugged up. Sometimes we get kids bringing in soda to class, but it happens more often with the overweight kids. Some of these kids can't run, it's like they lack the muscle memory to actually run in a straight line as if they've never physically run before. I've seen this all the way up until they graduate. So there you have it. Hopefully if you were looking to raise your blood pressure today I have assisted in doing so.