Thread: Body confidence petition!

I've signed it anyone else?


Petition to: add a new compulsory hour per year to the National Curriculum that will seek to alleviate the rising body image problems in the UK?s 12-20 year olds. | Number10.gov.uk

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ive signed! come on everyone sign up x

I'm sorry, I may be an anomaly here, but ... I just don't see the point in this. There are so many other things that need to be taught better in schools that body confidence is a pretty low priority in my eyes >_<

I'm so glad you said that Fleur, because I feel the same.

Schools are so jam packed at the moment anyway with all these different things they need to teach. People seem to be thinking "There's a problem in society, the schools will fix it".

It doesn't work like that. There are much more important things to learn.

I do think children/women should be more body confident, but I don't think stretching teachers and the curriculum more is the way to do it.

I'm not sure that I agree with the 'more important things to learn' bit but I don't honestly think that this is a problem that formal schooling can fix. The problem doesn't originate from schooling or learning but from social pressures - perhaps we should be addressing those rather than hoping a sticking plaster of an hour a week at school will do anything worthwhile?

i think iits society as a whole that needs to change its attitude to body image...perhaps though starting in schools is a good way to ensure that the young people of the future have a healthier approach to theirs and everyone elses bodies...i would hope though that schools would be funded to bring in a specialist to run workshops etc rather than expecting teaching staff to implement this concept.

I think its a good idea, however it won't stop the rise in eating disorder as this problem goes deeper than just body image.

Unless the root course is addressed the lessons will do little to solve the problem.

I'm afraid I'm with Fleur and December, firstly because I think there's already too much in the curriculum and it's not schools where we need to start this it's society and the media, but secondly.................let's be honest, when did you ever listen to teachers (sorry December), I purposely spent most of my school years trying to prove them wrong and doing the very opposite I was told. If teachers told me it was ok to love the way I was (bearing in mind I thought myself a big disgusting blob and was told I was this by my family and images in glossy magazines) I would have laughed my head off and said "yeah though, what do you know you're just teachers" (I'm really really sorry December).

Better tolerance/acceptance of all body types, abilities, colours, religions, genders, sexual orientations, mental health, age, etc etc needs to start at home............and with getting magazines to stop photoshopping..........before we start putting things into schools.

Originally Posted by tempest devyne

let's be honest, when did you ever listen to teachers (sorry December), I purposely spent most of my school years trying to prove them wrong and doing the very opposite I was told. If teachers told me it was ok to love the way I was (bearing in mind I thought myself a big disgusting blob and was told I was this by my family and images in glossy magazines) I would have laughed my head off and said "yeah though, what do you know you're just teachers" (I'm really really sorry December).

Haha it's ok, I'm prepared for it!

Just to clarify my comment about more important things to learn. I was specifically thinking about within a school setting: I think literacy and numeracy are much more important to learn in school than social issues.

Social issues are important, but I don't think they are a priority for schools.

Personally I think this where delaying formal schooling till six could really show merits. Kids would have a couple of years of pre-school to develop communication, awareness and social skills before being thrown into an environment that may degrade them...