Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-34633327-20171229202410/@comment-173.172.191.195-20171231181625

Perhaps Ozpin didn't overtly help him, but rather guided him behind the scenes, trained him, and helped him gain enough renown and skill to catch the attention of even the Faunus-unfriendly Mistrali council. That, and it was possibly a platitude to the Faunus by the Council to hire a faunus as headmaster.