New Jersey Teacher Removed From Class After Telling Black Student She's 'Full of Sh**'
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Source: Newsweek
Jon Jackson 12 hrs ago
A New Jersey high school teacher has been removed from classrooms while the school investigates him for allegedly using vulgar and racist language.
Teacher Howard Zlotkin's alleged expletive-filled rant reportedly occurred during a Zoom class with students at Jersey City's William L. Dickinson High School. Some of his offensive language was said to be directed at Black students. He can be heard on video, apparently captured from the Zoom session, calling George Floyd "a f**king criminal."
The Zoom class reportedly started with a lesson on climate change but quickly shifted as Zlotkin unexpectedly began a tirade against the students.
"If you think I'm privileged, then f**k you, because my daughter thinks I'm privileged and I don't speak to her," he can be seen saying during the class recording.
Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/new-jersey-teacher-removed-from-class-after-telling-black-student-she-s-full-of-sh/ar-BB1gekWd?li=BBorjTa
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,217 posts)Polybius
(15,238 posts)electric_blue68
(14,598 posts)AZLD4Candidate
(5,558 posts)NJCher
(35,424 posts)Eom
AZLD4Candidate
(5,558 posts)Correct link to story.
https://www.newsweek.com/teacher-racist-zoom-1587894
Judi Lynn
(160,217 posts)joetheman
(1,450 posts)And probably next the physicians....
SouthBayDem
(31,961 posts)sarchasm
(1,009 posts)ShazzieB
(15,952 posts)I don't know wtf is wrong with this dude, but ffs, keep him AWAY from kids!
ashredux
(2,593 posts)It is like some disease....
2naSalit
(86,048 posts)It eats yer brainz and turns you into a zombie like this guy.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,153 posts)Its like that other documentary about eating only Macdonald's food for a month. Only its your brain that gets more unhealthy, and bitter, and annoying.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,283 posts)What else would make a supposedly smart teacher act so dumb?
Or, as any good Geography teacher knows: It's 5pm somewhere.
Stuart G
(38,359 posts)Maybe "stupid idiot" is better...maybe...Teaching while drunk is stupid beyond stupid...
Lonestarblue
(9,880 posts)I have many family and friends who are teachers. None of them would ever think to behave so rudely to students of any ethnicity. We have a lot of retraining to do to get racism at least reduced. I doubt it will ever go away entirely.
PatSeg
(46,794 posts)would go unnoticed? He was on Zoom and his comments were heard by a lot of students. The odds that he was being recorded were pretty good. It was almost like he wanted to get caught.
csziggy
(34,120 posts)While the article linked in the OP mentioned a second video, it did not explain what that was. This article from a local source does explain the two videos and the delay by the school in removing Zlotkin from the classroom:
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/nj-teacher-gives-profanity-laced-rant-during-zoom-lesson-calls-george-floyd-a-criminal/3029146/
Duppers
(28,094 posts)The video was shocking - the guy is shocking. Subjecting students to that kind of racist hate should get him banned from teaching anywhere else forever.
csziggy
(34,120 posts)Like the people in stages of undress and doing bodily functions, I suspect this man is normally like this and forgot the barriers that should exist between teachers and students. In a way that is good - think of how long he must have been distorting what he teaches to fit his bizarre view of the world.
Oh, and sounded a little drunk to me, which also lowers barriers.
Duppers
(28,094 posts)So, yes, it was good.
Omaha Steve
(99,067 posts)This belongs in the New Jersey forum.