“These Scales Tell Us That There Is Something Wrong with You”: How Fat Students Are Systematically Denied Access to Fair and Equal Education and What We Can Do to Stop This – Note by Michelle Stover

From Volume 83, Number 4 (May 2010)
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The Supreme Court’s decision to bar the foreign Fat students are denied access to fair and equal education due to widespread antifat discrimination. Unfortunately, there are currently no statutes that provide adequate recourse for fat students. Thus, this Note advocates the drafting of new legislation specifically aimed at eliminating discrimination against students on the basis of fatness and recommends measures that can be adopted by school districts to combat discrimination against fat students.