{"id":10278,"date":"2016-06-15T22:20:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T03:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=10278"},"modified":"2016-06-15T22:20:02","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T03:20:02","slug":"principal-moody-suspended-for-letting-paterson-rapper-fetty-wap-film-music-video-at-east-side-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/principal-moody-suspended-for-letting-paterson-rapper-fetty-wap-film-music-video-at-east-side-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Principal Moody suspended for letting Paterson rapper Fetty Wap film music video at East Side High"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_10282\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10282\" style=\"width: 693px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/principal-moody-suspended-for-letting-paterson-rapper-fetty-wap-film-music-video-at-east-side-high\/principal-zatiti-moody\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10282\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Principal-Zatiti-Moody.png\" alt=\"Principal Zatiti Moody\" width=\"693\" height=\"687\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Principal-Zatiti-Moody.png 693w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Principal-Zatiti-Moody-225x223.png 225w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Principal-Zatiti-Moody-300x297.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 693px) 100vw, 693px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10282\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Urban Renaissance Media<\/figcaption><\/figure>A Paterson principal known for his educating excellence and strict discipline enforcement has been suspended from office by the New Jersey State appointed superintendent known for his attempts to keep Paterson students from experiencing quality education. The ostensible reason for the suspension: Principal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ur-media.com\/blog\/meet-eastside-high-school-principal-zatiti-moody\">Zatiti Moody<\/a> allowed music phenomenon <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fetty_Wap\">Fetty Wap<\/a> to film a music video at East Side High School which contains twerking and portrays drug use. Behaviour that \u2013 like it or not \u2013 happens to be part of the school experience for many urban students.<\/p>\n<p>Never mind that the video is a social statement, that Fetty Wap is an homegrown Patersonian who overcame a physical challenge to achieve national stardom or that school kids are pleased that a music icon like Fetty maintains ties with his roots and honors his hometown youth by bringing performances  to their backyard \u2013\u00a0or in this case, school.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northjersey.com\/news\/fetty-wap-paterson-residents-protest-suspension-of-principal-over-rapper-s-video-1.1616440\">community members who turned out at the June 15 Board of Ed meeting to show support for Principal Moody<\/a> included Fetty himself, who put in a surprise appearance.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fetty Wap \u2014 real name Willie Maxwell \u2014 showed up an hour after the meeting started and apologized for causing any controversy by filming the video at Eastside. He then departed the room, but stopped to patiently sign autographs in the school hallway.<\/p>\n<p>When asked what prompted him to show up at the meeting, he said \u201cI had to. For Paterson.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Students, parents and community members wore T-shirts and buttons demanding that the district \u201cReturn Principal Moody back to Eastside High School.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you have any thoughts about Moody&#8217;s suspension, I&#8217;d love to know them. Please share.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LbARTyio_0Q\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10279\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10279\" style=\"width: 940px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/principal-moody-suspended-for-letting-paterson-rapper-fetty-wap-film-music-video-at-east-side-high\/screen-shot-2016-06-15-at-22-43-57\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10279\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2016-06-15-at-22.43.57.jpg\" alt=\"Fetty Wap - Wake Up\" width=\"940\" height=\"614\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2016-06-15-at-22.43.57.jpg 940w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2016-06-15-at-22.43.57-225x147.jpg 225w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2016-06-15-at-22.43.57-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2016-06-15-at-22.43.57-768x502.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10279\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Fetty Wap &#8211; Wake Up<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Paterson principal known for his educating excellence and strict discipline enforcement has been suspended from office by the New Jersey State appointed superintendent known for his attempts to keep Paterson students from experiencing quality education. The ostensible reason for the suspension: Principal Zatiti Moody allowed music phenomenon Fetty Wap to film a music video &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/principal-moody-suspended-for-letting-paterson-rapper-fetty-wap-film-music-video-at-east-side-high\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Principal Moody suspended for letting Paterson rapper Fetty Wap film music video at East Side High&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,4,492,1787,563,1422],"tags":[2434,218,2435,719,2433],"class_list":["post-10278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-digital-life","category-education","category-in-nj","category-justice","category-youth","tag-fetty-wap","tag-paterson","tag-suspension","tag-video","tag-zatiti-moody"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10278"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10298,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10278\/revisions\/10298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}