My friend was talking the other day about looking for all girl private schools for her DD at secondary level & she mentioned one particular school in our city, then another friend jumped in & said that the school had a massive anorexia problem & there's no way she would send her DD there.
Now I have zero experience of eating disorders, but I'd always thought that they were classed as a mental health disorder & were not 'catching'. I assume that the other friend didn't mean that anorexia could actually be transmitted between girls but rather there was a culture of abnormal relationships with food at the school that could influence teenage girls and their food choices.
Could the friend have been mistaken or do some schools in anyone's experience have this kind of thing? Is it worth dismissing such a school as a choice if it does (its a day school not boarding)?
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Is it possible for a school to have 'an anorexia problem?'
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WhiteCoffee100 · 16/02/2016 16:20
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