{"id":8760,"date":"2013-08-08T07:29:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T07:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8760"},"modified":"2013-08-08T07:29:21","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T07:29:21","slug":"penis-piercing-teacher-suspended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8760","title":{"rendered":"Penis piercing teacher suspended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"pfnObj_Zone\" id=\"pfnObj_Zone_6\"><span class=\"articleBody\" id=\"articleBodyPrint\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/deptedu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8763\" alt=\"deptedu\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/deptedu.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/deptedu.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/deptedu-70x40.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A teacher at a Gauteng school was suspended for allegedly taking a pupil to have his penis pierced.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The school governing body confirmed on Wednesday that the teacher was facing a disciplinary hearing and was on paid suspension. The teacher was a governing body employee.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The school governing body would not confirm exactly why the teacher was suspended and what charges he would face.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Gauteng Education Department said it was aware of the incident.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The department can confirm the allegations and that the teacher is suspended,&#8221; said department spokesperson Gershwin Chuenyane.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The department said it viewed the incident in a very serious light.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">No further details about the incident were available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A teacher at a Gauteng school was suspended for allegedly taking a pupil to have his penis pierced. The school governing body confirmed on Wednesday that the teacher was facing a disciplinary hearing and was on paid suspension. The teacher was a governing body employee. The school governing body would not confirm exactly why the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8760\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Penis piercing teacher suspended&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[350,4900,3681],"class_list":["post-8760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-gauteng","tag-penis-piercing","tag-teacher"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/deptedu.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8760","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=8760"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8765,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8760\/revisions\/8765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}