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A New Jersey high school teacher was suspended after allegedly cursing at students and calling George Floyd a \u201cf—ing criminal” in a series of vulgar rants, according to reports on Friday.<\/p>\n
Dickinson High School teacher Howard Zlotkin\u2019s first alleged meltdown over Zoom, which was captured by a student and obtained by NBC New York, occurred this week, during what should have been a class discussion about climate change.<\/p>\n
“If you think I’m privileged then f—k you, because my daughter thinks I’m privileged and I don’t speak to her,” the science teacher said, according to the video.<\/p>\n
“I hear people whining and crying about Black Lives Matter, but George Floyd was a f—ing criminal and he got arrested and he got killed because he wouldn’t comply and the bottom line is we make him a f—ing hero,” Zlotkin said in the recording.<\/p>\n
Zlotkin, who is white, seemed to focus his tirade on black students, and reportedly assigned essays to four black girls in the class, including 17-year-old senior Timmia Williams, the report said.<\/p>\n
Williams told the outlet that Zlotkin had another outburst when she refused to complete the essay.<\/p>\n
“I don’t think you can make a case. You know what Timmia? You’re full of s–t too,” Zlotkin told her the next day in class, according to the recording.<\/p>\n
Williams\u2019 mother was shocked by the teacher\u2019s comments.<\/p>\n
“Who does that? Who would curse, I don’t even curse at my own daughter,” Margie Nieves told NBC New York.<\/p>\n
On Friday, the district\u2019s superintendent, Franklin Walker, told NJ.com that Zlotkin had been suspended with pay.<\/p>\n
Walker said the district is investigating the rants, calling the language used in them \u201cunacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n
Zlotkin has taught at Dickinson High School in Jersey City for 20 years, according to NJ.com.<\/p>\n
He is also an adjunct professor position at Hudson County Community College, a position which he has also been suspended from, the news site reported.<\/p>\n