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Parent tells Linn‑Mar board health lessons and weighing practices worsened daughter’s eating disorder; urges curriculum review
Summary
During public comment a parent said middle‑ and high‑school health lessons that emphasize weight and require students to log meals in a weight‑loss app contributed to her daughter’s restrictive eating. She urged the board to review curriculum and adopt developmentally appropriate, body‑positive nutrition education.
A parent told the Linn‑Mar Community School District Board of Directors on March 31 that the district’s health lessons and a school practice of weighing students contributed to her daughter’s eating disorder and asked the board to review the curriculum.
Heather Kroske said she spoke as a parent of a daughter who developed an eating disorder after middle‑school health instruction. “I'm coming before you as a parent of a daughter with an eating disorder that had its seed planted in middle school health class,” Kroske said. She described lessons that she said required students to download an app…
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