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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So there’s something in the water in Fairfax that makes our teachers ten times more likely to have a certain discrete set of serious medical conditions than other districts? We need to get Erin Brockovich up here to investigate.[/quote] I don't think it's in the water. It's in the job. I was a teacher in fcps, and most of the older teachers are incredibly unhealthy. They are all overweight, a lot have diabetes, and even the younger ones seem to have a lot of medical problems. I think it's because they work 60+ hours a week, don't have time to eat anything good during the day, are showered with "appreciation" from PTA's which almost always takes the form of junk food (our school actually asked them to stop putting cupcakes in the teacher's lounge, and they still did it), and are under constant stress from administrators and high stakes testing. It's a recipe for disease.[/quote]
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