Posted on 05/01/2021 9:36:52 AM PDT by Olog-hai
A New Jersey high school teacher has been suspended with pay after profanity-laced comments to students in his class about George Floyd, the man killed by a Minneapolis police officer.
A recording aired by WNBC-TV shows Dickinson High School (Jersey City) science teacher Howard Zlotkin talking about Floyd and Black Lives Matter during what was supposed to be a climate change discussion in a landscape and design Zoom class.
Zlotkin, who is white, is heard to say people are “whining and crying about Black Lives Matter,” and he then refers to Floyd with a profanity as a “criminal” who “got arrested and he got killed because he wouldn’t comply.” Another profanity is heard as he continues that Floyd is being treated as a “hero.”
The video and one taken the next day also included a profanity directed at a student and a vulgar gesture, WNBC reported. The student said Zlotkin grew irate when she and three other students challenged his position, and the four were told to write an essay on “why Black lives should matter” — an assignment not given to other students.
Superintendent Franklin Walker told NJ.com that the language used was “unacceptable.” He said the district is investigating the situation and that police have also been notified “because some of it could be at the same level as a hate crime.” …
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Interesting how they referred to Floyd as “the man killed” not “the drug addicted criminal Killed”.
The Ministry of Truth did not approve.
“police have been notified.”
The teacher didn’t help his message by adding a lot of profanity. That was inappropriate in a classroom setting, and made it rather easy for the class to ignore or dismiss the truth of his remarks. They can spend time saying how ‘insulted’ they were.
Well, FR is the only place on the net where I feel comfortable saying my opinions actually but it’s always best not to use profanity when you do so, and especially when you are a teacher in front of a classroom. You are just asking for it then, imho.
I don’t understand why he was criticized for using a “profanity” while talking down about Floyd, then he assigned students to write about why black lives matter???
He shouldn’t have sworn but otherwise I don’t see a huge problem, other than varying from the lesson plan.
“...George Floyd, the man killed by a Minneapolis police officer...” Now, had he mentioned the hundreds if not thousands of ‘bipoc’ folks killed by LEO everyday...... Surely that was what the ‘ap’ meant to say right? If you’re gonna lie, you may as well go bigly. Any go F me account set up for the teacher yet?
I mean, he gave them good advice: comply with a police officer’s request.
Climate change discussion in landscape design.
If you repeat it over and over...
Ditto, Floyd.
I knew before reading just from the way the headline was editorialized it was from the Left
We’re living 1984.
In a time of universal deceit, speaking the truth is a revolutionary act...
Gee.. who said that...
The teacher didn’t help his message by adding a lot of profanity. That was inappropriate in a classroom setting, and made it rather easy for the class to ignore or dismiss the truth of his remarks. They can spend time saying how ‘insulted’ they were.
While you are indeed correct, we all know if the teacher's profanity-laden remarks would have been directed at the police or white people in general, he would still be employed with a promotion in the near future
F**k Yeah! You’re right.
Reads as if the teacher told the truth, someone recorded it, and in liberal Left coast LaLa land, he’s going to be pariahed and sent out of town on a rail.
career suicide by Zoom?
Keep any mention of Jesus Christ out of the classroom, but if you dare say anything blasphemous about St. George The Crackhead you’re toast!
“Ape Pee”, Pravda of the Derp State.
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