{"id":22530,"date":"2013-07-15T17:58:27","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T21:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=22530"},"modified":"2013-07-15T17:58:56","modified_gmt":"2013-07-15T21:58:56","slug":"new-york-principal-calls-black-teachers-gorillas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=22530","title":{"rendered":"New York Principal Calls Black Teachers \u2018Gorillas\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Queens high school principal has drawn the ire of community members after \u00a0allegedly making racially charged remarks about several employees.<\/p>\n<p>Parents and teachers protested outside the New York City Department of Education last Monday, demanding authorities immediately investigate the situation. In addition, a Change.org petition calling for the termination of the principal has garnered more than 1,000 signatures.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Minerva Zanca<\/strong>, the principal of Pan American International High School, allegedly targeted several Black teachers who recently filed complaints with the Department of Education Office of Equal Opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the teachers, who were fired, say they were victims of harassment and that their poor performance ratings were a result of racial discrimination. Another teacher, who quit, said she also felt targeted because of her race.<\/p>\n<p>In a witness statement, the school\u2019s assistant principal, <strong>Anthony Riccardo<\/strong> confirmed their claims. He said<strong> Zanca <\/strong>called the teachers \u201cgorillas\u201d and made comments about their \u201cbig lips\u201d and \u201cnappy hair,\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Queens high school principal has drawn the ire of community members after \u00a0allegedly making racially charged remarks about several employees. Parents and teachers protested outside the New York City Department of Education last Monday, demanding authorities immediately investigate the situation. In addition, a Change.org petition calling for the termination of the principal has garnered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}