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Abuse of children  [message #52855] Tue, 02 September 2008 10:03 Go to previous message
timmy

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This week and next all over the UK a new school year starts. She Who Must Be Obeyed has a new class of 6 year olds, all unknown to her. Very soon she gains an understanding of who has a brain, who is not yet ready to learn, who will go to jail, who will be a janitor etc. And she also sees signs of abuse.

She sees the kid who scribbles all over everything in black, for example. That really happens and it often but not always tells of an abusive situation at home.

She sees the kids with lunch boxes that contain nothing nourishing. She sees the kids who come to school with no breakfast. She sees skinny kids.

All these she can start to put right. There's a process for it, and the underfed ones can be solved at once by the school kitchen, even if it;s just a slice of bread and jam.

The ones she can't start to put right are the hippopotamus sized kids, the ones who, at 6 years old, are already heading for a life of immobility through blubber. There is no process for handling obesity.

But surely over-inflating your child IS abuse? Surely that is a child as much "at risk" as one who is starved?


Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
 
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