{"id":12392,"date":"2013-12-18T13:53:14","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T13:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12392"},"modified":"2013-12-18T13:53:14","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T13:53:14","slug":"teacher-who-said-santa-is-white-on-paid-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12392","title":{"rendered":"Teacher who said Santa is white on paid leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/blacksanta.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12393\" alt=\"blacksanta\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/blacksanta.jpg\" width=\"224\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/blacksanta.jpg 224w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/blacksanta-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 85vw, 224px\" \/><\/a>An American teacher from Albuquerque, NM, who told a black student that Santa Claus was white, has been placed on paid administrative leave.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A Rio Rancho school district spokesperson has confirmed that the teacher was suspended while the incident is being investigated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The teacher&#8217;s comments came after students at Cleveland High School were told they could come to class dressed as Santa, an elf or a reindeer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The father says when his ninth-grade son arrived with a Santa hat and beard, the teacher asked, &#8220;Don&#8217;t you know Santa Claus is white?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The incident happened the same week that Fox News Channel&#8217;s Megyn Kelly said both Santa Claus and Jesus were white.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An American teacher from Albuquerque, NM, who told a black student that Santa Claus was white, has been placed on paid administrative leave. A Rio Rancho school district spokesperson has confirmed that the teacher was suspended while the incident is being investigated. The teacher&#8217;s comments came after students at Cleveland High School were told they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12392\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Teacher who said Santa is white on paid leave&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[7847,2017,7846,1638],"class_list":["post-12392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","tag-black-santa","tag-racial-bias","tag-santa-claus","tag-us"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/blacksanta.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12392","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=12392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12394,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12392\/revisions\/12394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}