Louisiana schools now required to teach about eating disorders

(KSLA) — Beginning Aug. 1, Louisiana public faculties will probably be required to show about consuming problems and the way to stop them.

Home Invoice 440 of the latest common legislative session was signed into regulation June 18 by Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards.

Louisiana state Rep. Tammy Phelps, D-Shreveport, authored the laws now often called Act 626.

“Physique picture and college students and women not understanding how a lot it impacts their our bodies and the functioning in the long run, I believed it was positively price attempting to introduce it and even start to speak about it in our public faculties,” Phelps mentioned.

Officers say the COVID-19 pandemic prompted an increase in consuming problems.

The brand new regulation requires faculties to offer age- and grade-appropriate classroom instruction in regards to the risks of consuming problems beginning by the sixth grade.

Every native faculty system might want to provide you with a plan explaining how they’ll roll out this program and incorporate it into your youngster’s schooling.

The instruction will probably be a part of an present course of research resembling well being schooling, bodily schooling or one other required course deemed acceptable by the College Board.

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