Teachers Dwarfed As Pupils Become Taller And Heavier
The weight of 14-year-old male students has jumped from an average of $ 5 10lb in 1970 to $ 8.5, according to one NASUWT leader. The average height is also said to have increased over the past 50 years from 4 feet 10 inches to 5 feet 8 inches, Elaine Paling told delegates at the union’s annual conference in Birmingham on Sunday. While telling the public that she was a “big fan of statistics”, the history teacher claimed that these data were taken from the website of the World Health Organization....