{"id":86007,"date":"2026-03-06T09:04:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T09:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=86007"},"modified":"2026-03-06T09:04:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T09:04:29","slug":"fifth-grade-teacher-suspended-for-telling-students-they-were-acting-like-monkeys-in-a-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/03\/06\/fifth-grade-teacher-suspended-for-telling-students-they-were-acting-like-monkeys-in-a-zoo\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifth grade teacher suspended for telling students they were &#8216;acting like monkeys in a zoo&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1XD40U.img?w=534&amp;h=662&amp;m=6&amp;x=308&amp;y=66&amp;s=108&amp;d=108\" alt=\"Superintendent Dexter Suggs told parents at a board meeting that the board was taking racially charged comments from a teacher 'extremely seriously'\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A fifth-grade teacher in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/indiana\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Indiana<\/a> has been suspended after telling her students they were &#8216;acting like monkeys in a zoo.&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/fifth-grade-teacher-suspended-for-telling-students-they-were-acting-like-monkeys-in-a-zoo\/ar-AA1XDb4K?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=d7cabd19eb43415eaa67db7da09e8aaf&amp;ei=70\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A fifth-grade teacher in\u00a0Indiana has been suspended after telling her students they were &#8216;acting like monkeys in a zoo.&#8217; Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-86007","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/empty-classroom.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86009,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86007\/revisions\/86009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}