A furious mom has spoken out and slammed the teachers after her daughter was weighed in front of the entire class.
Calling out her 9-year-old daughter’s physical education teacher, a young mom from Perth, Australia, revealed how the girl and her classmates were weighed one by one while everyone was allowed to watch.
To make matters worse, the students compared the numbers after the weighing was over and branded the heaviest child as “fat.”
“My nine-year-old daughter and her class where all asked to weigh themselves at school today as part of their physical education class,” the mom wrote in her Facebook rant.
“While the teacher told them ‘it doesn’t matter what the number is’ to me the activity itself is so insanely problematic.
“There was comparison, commenting on each other’s numbers, calling out the heaviest as fat by the kids.”
While the mother admitted she and her daughter had since talked about body image, she remains concerned that some children could be left traumatized after being weighed in front of their classmates.
“We had a long conversation about our worth as a person having absolutely nothing to do with the number on the scales, never under any circumstances commenting on someone else’s body type and we always have had open communication to promote body positivity in our house and we do discuss girls and puberty but I’m furious that this happened at school,” the mom added.
“I will be up late researching the stats surrounding eating disorders, mental health and weight issues to shove in the school’s face in an email. What else can I do about this? These kids are nine, they don’t need this.”
After her complaint went viral, the mother was urged by other parents to contact the school and demand a change in the way things are done.
“Contact the school. This is disgraceful. I am a teacher and it would never enter my mind that that is an acceptable thing to do,” one person said.
“I will never forget when I experienced this 20 years ago. It was undoubtedly the beginning of a really long and difficult journey with my self esteem and body. I am really saddened to hear that it is still a common practice,” another added.
The third wrote: “This is completely WRONG. I didn’t even get weighed when I was pregnant. It’s not only irrelevant but it could be causing eating disorders and actual physical and mental harm with zero benefit. I would be on the phone to the school.”
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