Why Are Teachers Fat?
11 min readDec 28, 2021
What Overweight Teachers Can Tell Us About the State of Our Schools
When I started teaching 27 years ago, I was slim and fit. I exercised regularly spending a significant amount of time both inside the gym and outside in the wilderness and I measured every morsel of food that went into my mouth.
So, on the first day of my student teaching practicum, the one thing that stood out more than the handful…