College controlling student's weight

awcntdb
Sun, 28 Sep 2014 07:42:30 +0000

Seriously, unless the student’s has had a demonstrated medical condition or behaviors which clearly indicate self-harm, …



To be fair to the school, medical tests can and often are predictive of either impending medical conditions, which are not yet symptomatic, and thus are not demonstrated medical conditions.

Additionally, there are normal behaviors, which people do that unbeknown to them are harmful to themselves because of a previously unknown issue. These behaviors would never be viewed as abnormal or of causing a medical condition, unless juxtaposed against a particular test result. Therefore, it is very possible to do self-harm out of ignorance.

However, in this case, none of these situations existed. But this does not mean the school was helicoptering in an inappropriate way. This situation really only indicates that the school took decisions without all available information, with in the most important missing information being what was normalcy for the D.