{"id":203136,"date":"2026-03-04T02:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T02:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/203136\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T02:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T02:08:09","slug":"sf-teacher-accused-of-fat-shaming-sexism-in-quizzes-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/203136\/","title":{"rendered":"SF Teacher Accused Of Fat-Shaming, Sexism In Quizzes: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO, CA \u2014 A San Francisco school teacher was placed on leave Monday after being accused of giving students quizzes containing sexist and fat-shaming content, according to a report from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/sf\/article\/lowell-school-teacher-sexist-allegations-21951763.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Tom Chan, a math teacher at Lowell High School, gave students quizzes asking them to figure out how much it would cost to take a girl who weighs 120 pounds out on a Valentine&#8217;s Day date versus a girl who weighs 220 pounds. Another question was titled &#8220;Mr. Chan vs. The Fat Kid, according to the report. <\/p>\n<p>A student&#8217;s parent raised concerns about Chan&#8217;s quiz to the San Francisco Chronicle, which said it contacted school officials. <\/p>\n<p>Just a few hours later, Lowell Principal Jan Bautista notified families that Chan &#8220;needed to go on leave,&#8221; according to the report, which added that it&#8217;s unclear whether Chan was placed on paid leave or took a leave of absence. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s pretty shocking,&#8221; the parent told the San Francisco Chronicle &#8220;The fact that nobody has brought this up to the school and he\u2019s been there a really long time.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO, CA \u2014 A San Francisco school teacher was placed on leave Monday after being accused of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-203136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-san-francisco","9":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","10":"tag-san-francisco-news","11":"tag-sf","12":"tag-sf-headlines","13":"tag-sf-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}