16-year-old British girl Lottie Twiselton [has] allegedly been excluded from her school because she's recovering from anorexia.
After being discharged from hospital, Lottie had hoped to return to Northampton High School on a part-time basis until she fully regained her strength. But her school administration said she wasn't welcome to return until she had made a full recovery.
Lottie, who had attended the school since she was three years old, told London's Mirror newspaper, "I felt abandoned. Nobody can understand how important the return to school is when you're in recovery."
Her father Robert Twiselton was scathing of the school's decision saying, "People suffering from anorexia are encouraged to work towards a goal and Lottie was working towards getting back to school to be with her friends. This was taken away from her."
Lottie's mother Claire Twiselton says that Lottie was banned from returning because the school feared her daughter would be a bad influence on her peers and inspire copycat eating disorders.
I understand the first part of wantin her to be fully recovered, but that last part is stupid. Why don't you let her back full time with the promise that as an assignment, she make a speech to her classmates about anorexia and how terrible it is. Use her disorder to set a good example instead of hiding her for fear it might set a bad one.
If this is a boarding school, it's not surprising. Their excuses are a front. They just don't want to be held liable if the girl does something stupid to herself. This is done a lot with people who have any sort of mental illness; and colleges do the same. It's disgusting tbh.
Even though that reason is ludicrous, it DOES happen. I think it's has something to do with someone psychologically, there are people who will copy serious life struggles and want to apply it to their life. Maybe just for wanting to have that story of the problems they are going through/overcome, or even the usual "that person is skinny now, let's do what she/he did"; even seeing that this girl got out of going to school, may trigger someone who is having a terrible time in school harm their bodies to get out of it. A lot of the people who do that already have problems obviously, but people make stupid decisions and there are stupid people.
It was still unfair to ban her from going to school and she should not be held responsible for the school's fear of someone copying her illness.
