{"id":10510,"date":"2013-09-20T07:23:26","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T07:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10510"},"modified":"2013-09-20T07:23:26","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T07:23:26","slug":"black-classmates-cheer-as-white-pupil-attacks-teacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10510","title":{"rendered":"Black classmates cheer as white pupil attacks teacher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/glenvista.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10511\" alt=\"glenvista\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/glenvista-300x201.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/glenvista-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/glenvista.jpg 384w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Gauteng education department has condemned the assault of a teacher by a white Grade Eight pupil at Glenvista High School in Johannesburg south.<\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe head of department has already dispatched a team of senior officials to the school to ensure that immediate action is taken to suspend the learner, provide counselling to the educator and begin disciplinary process,\u201d said spokesman Gershwin Chuenyane on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">A video of the assault &#8211; which happened on Wednesday &#8211; was captured by a fellow black pupil and went viral on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">It shows the pupil unsuccessfully trying to retrieve what looks like a school bag from the teacher.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">After failing to get it back, he hits and kicks the teacher, then throws a chair and a broom as the teacher walks out of the classroom.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">His black classmates can be heard off-camera, encouraging the youth to \u201cget him\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The department commended the teacher for remaining calm and not retaliating. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gauteng education department has condemned the assault of a teacher by a white Grade Eight pupil at Glenvista High School in Johannesburg south. \u201cThe head of department has already dispatched a team of senior officials to the school to ensure that immediate action is taken to suspend the learner, provide counselling to the educator &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10510\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Black classmates cheer as white pupil attacks teacher&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[4102,6382,6383,6384],"class_list":["post-10510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-assault","tag-gauteng-education-department","tag-grade-eight-pupil-at-glenvista-high-school","tag-johannesburg-south"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/glenvista.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10512,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10510\/revisions\/10512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}