ANDERSON, SC (Talon News) -- A South Carolina teacher has been placed on paid leave for affirming a student's question about Jesus. Jean Byce, a teaching assistant at La France Elementary in the Bible belt of Anderson, South Carolina, explained to parents and teachers on Wednesday night that a curious student wanted to know her opinion about Jesus. "In a school in a community like ours, where 99 percent of the people are Christians, children talk about Jesus a lot," Byce told the NBC affiliate WYFF-TV. "A student sang a song to me and asked me a question about Jesus...