Yale University 'Sorry' For Threatening To Suspend Student Frances Chan For Being Too Skinny

[bethan_b_bad]

Yale University has admitted it "made a mistake" after accusing a student of having an eating disorder and warning if she didn't put on weight she'd be put on medical leave

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[wanderinspirits]

Reminds me of my current roommate being pulled out of the room a week after she moved in. Turns out because she wasn't using her meal plan all the time, the school believed she had an eating disorder. They aruged and argued with her for about 30 minutes before letting it go because she explained that her parents would drop her off every Sunday after she went home with a week's worth of groceries because the food on campus made her sick. (I think her mom ended up speaking to the head of housing, it wasn't even the stupid Health services! >:( It was Housing!)

It's still wrong. I'm just relieved they didn't take it upon themselves to do -this- to my roommate.

But, I would be suing for emotional distress if I were any of these girls and threatening to transfer...at the least. It's just wrong. Also BMI is NOT the "end all be all" that the first doctor obviously believes it is. (I had a doctor like this in middle/high school, she used to drive me into tears by the end of every appointment. She didn't drive me to gain, but to lose weight when even by BMI I was okay.)

[nesmith]

The fact that there are supposed "health professionals" out there who apparently don't have enough brains and common sense to take their eyes off a flawed number to ACTUALLY LOOK AT THE PERSON IN FRONT OF THEM is really worrying.

[lied_ohne_worte]

Wow, that's awful. I'm glad that universities here don't concern themselves with where people live and whether they eat in the student cafeterias or not - I'd consider that sort of thing an extreme intrusion into privacy when they're dealing with adults whom they're merely supposed to educate, not parent.