Why Are Teachers Fat?

Rebecca Ford
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…

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Rebecca Ford

Educator. Blogger. Wilderness Enthusiast. Feline-Equine-Canine Mom.