If schools reinstated physical education classes, a lot of fat children would lose weight.
Many measures are needed to fight the trend, Dr. Vinicor said, offering several examples: "We need to insure that people are informed about healthy choices of foods, that when you build new homes there are sidewalks where people can walk and be active, that schools reinstate physical education and that cafeterias at schools offer healthy foods".
He added, "What kind of message is that sending to our children on the field of play?" He said he asked the school district to suspend Mr. Mammone for the rest of the season, but school officials reinstated him so he could take part in the playoffs -- a decision that was later rescinded.
The Kansas state school board reinstated teaching evolution last year, after striking it from the science curriculum two years earlier.
Four players on the Long Island University men's basketball team who were arrested in a campus brawl last month and suspended from school were reinstated and will miss two games each.
The church schools were reinstated in 1976, and the universities once again separated in 1981.
More than 8,000 people have signed a petition on Change.org calling for the school to reinstate Harris, and organizers have planned a rally to show support at King Solomon Baptist Church in Detroit on Tuesday at 6 p.m.
The first woman to lead the Army's prestigious drill sergeant school is being reinstated after she was suspended in November for reasons the Army has never explained, her lawyer and the Army said on Friday.
Many readers urged schools to reinstate cooking classes for both girls and boys — learning about food can also reinforce lessons in math, science and geography — with a focus on fresh vegetables that are also served in the lunchroom.
"We firmly believe the academy experiment has failed in Carlisle, and this school should now be reinstated under the control of the local authority, which has the knowledge and expertise to run schools," she said.
