What started as one teacher's plan to help a student lose weight has turned into a school-wide healthy-living effort in Franklin, Ind. After suffering the death of his father and a long hospital stay, 14-year-old Eric Ekis entered Franklin Community High School School standing 6'4" and weighing 510 pounds. His size made him a target for bullies and isolated him, socially and mentally, from his peers. When teacher Don Wettrick approached Ekis about exercising together, the embarrassed teen turned him down. So Wettrick asked a second time, a few days later. Eric turned him down again. At the end of September,...
- 2/24/2014
- by Nate Jones
- PEOPLE.com
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