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Show A-11 The Park Record Wed/Thurs/Fri, November'2-4, 2005 STUDENT TO STUDENT her true self-worth and to feel that her appearance was satisfactory. Currently a registered nurse and a recovered anorexic and exercise-bulimic, Mann still strugrestricting her caloric intake, "I'd step on the scale, and it gles with her body image every would tell me what I was worth once in a while. Mann now works that day," says Mann, now in her at the Center for Change, a spemid-20s, as she chokes back tears. cialty psychiatric - clinic at After pounds of success, Mann Timpanogas Hospital, aiding the was finally at a healthy weight, but recovery of other persons with it just didn't seem good enough to eating disorders. her. Her eating disorder became Such illnesses affect as many as her "best friend" and she kept up one in seven youths and as many her self-destructive actions and as 22 percent of those affected die began to withdraw from every- as a result of starvation, heart thing else. attack, or other health complicaMann became critically physi- tion of their disorder. The problem is real and it is cally unhealthy, skeletal and yellowish in appearance. The teenage serious. We can all help by being girl was experiencing chest pains educated about eating disorders. and losing consciousness from It is 'also helpful to refrain from lack of nutrition. It was at this commenting on others' bodies in point that a seriously concerned a negative or positive way since friend forced Mann to gel medical people with tendencies toward eating disorders may interpret attention. Though she was nursed back to any such comment as meaning a healthy weight, the problem was "keep up the destructive behavnot fixed. As Dean says, eating ior!" disorders are addictions which This'does not mean that it is take time to overcome. Indeed, it harmful to compliment anyone, took a long time for Mann to get but it is better to draw attention to in touch with her emotions, to find people's other positive features POOL TABLES The psychology behind eatine disorders, in time for post-Halloween canay consumption By KENDALL FISCHER Park Record intern The combination of two Halloween traditions - Skittles and chocolate eyeballs with skimpy belly dancer or Chippendale costumes - cause many of us to be more conscious of our bodies. But surprisingly, body image or eating disorders often have little to do with physical appearance, according to case social worker Janna Dean, who spoke at a Rotary Youth Leadership conference at Sundance last Friday. Eating disorders are actually not about food so much as insecurities. Dean says. Many people become bulimic or anorexic in order to feel more in control of their lives or as "an emotionalcoping mechanism." For example, wanting her emotionally abusive father to love her, and her peers to accept her, Becky Mann began to lose weight by running excessively and harshly TfaeBrookstone Trmsittail style OPENMON.-SAT. 10:00 AM-7:00 PM AUTHORIZED DEALER OPEN EVERY SUNDAY NOON • 5:00PM Kendall Fischer • HO Interest • HO Down Payment • NO Paymenis for 12 months O.AX. j such as personality, since really, that matters a billion times more anyway. Dean made the most suitable summation, "Being happy with who you are makes you beautiful." To share your opinion on this or any other recent Student to Student column post your comments on prstuden tblog. blogspot. com. www.valleyspas.com Serving Sail Lake City Since 19761 6835 S. State«801-568-7050^ ValleySpas©] BILLIARDS PCEF: making a top-10 school district Specializing so involved. The foundation will start tracking student involvement this year, so there's no clata foundation has studied were yet. approximately the same size and diversity as Park City from- a The report card is "a good variety of geographic areas. The way*to evaluate how we're doing foundation wanted to compare relative to other school districts Park City to districts that have in the country," Heinlein said. only one high school. Heinlein "We're using these benchmark said, as larger districts tend to schools to establish relationships "We've done a terrific create specialty or magnet high and talk about programs that are cates 64 8 er useful." schools. uring out what we need to do to make C e n t - P These districts include At its forthcoming PCEF , , . . . , , r n i ' Which IS Mercer Island, Wash., outside OUr SChOOl district better, bUt for Park very close. Grade: Week, the foundation wili share Seattle; Great Neck, New York; its results with other districts. B Falls Church, Virginia; City to take a lead role nationally is very P o i n t 8: n u m b e r "This is an opportunity for Oakridge, Tennessee; Park City School District to t a k e , of high school Piedmont, Calif.; Los Alamos, exciting. seniors complet- a lead role nationally as far as • New Mexico. at least three what makes for a top school dis- Mark Fischer ing years of one for- trict," PCEF President Mark Criteria PCEF president eign language. Fischer said in a previous inter^ ^ ^ ^ ^m ^ ^ ^ The ed founda- view. "We've done a terrific job The foundation assigned a ^^^^^^^ tion set a goal of with figuring out what we need grade to the district for each of • 70 percent to earn to do to make our school district 10 points, earning the district a B+ average. Jay Matthews Challenge Index, an A in this category, and fund- better, but for Park City to take a of the International lead role nationally is very excitPoint 1: the number of stu- which gauges the number of ing program is ing." dents reading on grade level by Advanced Placement and/or Baccalaureate third-grade, which was a major International Baccalaureate intended to - in part - increase The entire report card is availissue for former Utah Gov. exams taken at a high school, language skills. In 2004-05, Park able online at Olene Walker.' According to divided by its number of gradu- City had 62".7"hpejfcerft of students board.parkcity.fcl2:ut.us/Board.n " "*^frPuWlicr^Click von~ "11/01/2005 UtarHs^o'vftfua-tien system. 82 per- ates. This is the measure which- hitthis godl."GT&tfef"B " Point 9: college placement. Work Session," then "Reports." cent of Park City third-graders earned Park City a spot on the are proficient readers. Grade: B top 200 high schools in America. For an A in this category, the PCEF has a goal of 90 percent of Point 2: the number of middle Grade: A graduates entering a two- or school students who have comPoint 5: success on the Iowa pleted elementary or pre-algebra Test of Basic Skills. The average four-year college, multi-year by the end of eighth-grade. Park City student taking the test professional training, or the miliAlgebra is a "gateway class'1 for scored higher than three-quar- tary. In 2005. 86 percent of stustudents to complete basic col- ters of the students taking the dents fit this. Grade: B lege preparatory math, Heinlein test across the United States, the Point 10: student involvesaid. In Park City, 92.3 percent of report read. Grade: B ment. This gauges the number of students fulfill this. Grade: A Point 6: highly qualified staff, seniors with at least two years of Point 3: the graduation rate of1 which measures the number of participation in at least one the "grade 10 cohort group' teachers who have advanced extra- or co-curricular activity or F U R according to measurements of degrees and/or National Board internship. For an A, the foundafederally legislated No Child Certification. In Park City, 53 tion wants 90 percent of students • Continued from A-9 in repair and percent of teachers meet this. Grade: B Point 7: spending on instructional services. National figures recommend at least 65 percent of district operating funds should go to instruction. which is mostly teacher salaries, the report read. job with fig- Park City dedi- Left Behind, Districts begin tracking this in the 2005-06 school year, so no data is available yet. 'Point 4: success on Newsweek and Washington Post reporter restoration of furniture in home touch up and repair. 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