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Brazil: “Fat” teachers rejected from schools

Posted 3 February 2011 5:44 GMT

Ricardo Kotscho asks himself [pt] “why fat people cannot teach”, after five teachers were rejected on medical examination to teach in Brazilian state schools because of their obesity.

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Written byRaphael Tsavkko Garcia

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