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NJ teacher suspended after profane Floyd comments to class
Associated Press ^ | May 1, 2021

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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To: Olog-hai

Wrong. White man suspended for criticizing black man. The article makes sure to mention that he is White, using a lower case letter W to show its disdain for Whites.

Note that the police are now called for WORDS that contain no violent threats. The police arrive with guns, sticks, pepper spray, handcuffs, and can kill you if you resist.

Is this the country our founders had in mind?


21 posted on 05/01/2021 10:26:58 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Non-binary transnormativity is a construct of intersectionality. Leftist gobbledegook stinks.)
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To: Olog-hai
and that police have also been notified “because some of it could be at the same level as a hate crime.” …


22 posted on 05/01/2021 10:27:35 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: I want the USA back

“NaziCommies” are in the saddle now...


23 posted on 05/01/2021 10:28:17 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: americas.best.days...

Why would police be involved? Isn’t this a situation for the social workers?


24 posted on 05/01/2021 10:30:10 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: phoneman08; lee martell

Wow!! An intelligent point counterpoint discussion and neither one of you called the other guy an a**hole!

Is that allowed here?


25 posted on 05/01/2021 10:34:21 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: I want the USA back

The police arrive with guns, sticks, pepper spray, handcuffs, and can kill you if you resist. …
Unless of course you’re Ma’Khiller Bryant or Daunte Wrong; they die and the police are the villains.
26 posted on 05/01/2021 10:34:48 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Mr. K
Interesting how they referred to Floyd as “the man killed” not “the drug addicted criminal Killed”.

I prefer "died of a drug overdose while in police custody."

-PJ

27 posted on 05/01/2021 10:34:54 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (* LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Floyd’s family recently transferred the “gentle giant” sobriquet onto him.


28 posted on 05/01/2021 10:36:19 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: lee martell

Do you think the same results would occur if it was a black teacher referring to a white man?


29 posted on 05/01/2021 10:39:52 AM PDT by Ronald77
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To: Mr. K

Change “Floye” to “Chauvin” and she gets a fat promotion.


30 posted on 05/01/2021 10:41:00 AM PDT by DPMD
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To: Political Junkie Too

I was trying to think of a substitute but I was too lazy- thank you


31 posted on 05/01/2021 10:43:25 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: Olog-hai

I wonder if those students know that George Floyd’s family is receiving $27mm from is unfortunate death.


32 posted on 05/01/2021 10:46:19 AM PDT by ReleaseTheHounds ("The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher )
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To: Olog-hai

(a “criminal” who “got arrested and he got killed because he wouldn’t comply.”)

Wish folks would get their facts straight. Truth is important. George floyd didn’t get killed by a yone other than George floyd. He killed himself. The f a CT that he died while in custody has nothing to do with the fact that George died fro. A drug overdose. George floyd did not die because a cop held him down. Floyd was dying even before the cops showed up


33 posted on 05/01/2021 10:48:09 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: americas.best.days...

Funny how police are never notified if teachers rant about jews or Christians


34 posted on 05/01/2021 10:51:47 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Olog-hai

Well, honestly, he should not be broaching the subject. Only if pushed into it by BLM-loving “students”.

And he certainly should not be cussing up a storm, or directed at students (unless they truly deserve it).

Professionalism, people.

This is how BLM and everyone who enables them behave all the time - completely unprofessional (I know, via my stupid college pres and local school super). And many are getting sick of it (see the Basecamp company diatribe). But still handle it better.


35 posted on 05/01/2021 10:55:36 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs. I )
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To: lee martell

You’re right. And it’s because “cussing”/profanity/etc is “FIGHTIN’ WORDS”. It’s basically threatening.


36 posted on 05/01/2021 10:57:35 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs. I )
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To: ro_dreaming

Well it’s actually east coast.

But he cussed and made “disagreeing” kids write a report and just the fact he went off on it at all is out of line.

Totally unprofessional. It’s a science class.


37 posted on 05/01/2021 11:03:45 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs. I )
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To: Olog-hai
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.” …

Give me a break. Sounds like this teacher lost it - who can blame him? - but he should have made his case in a more tempered logical way. He's been suspended but I'm sure a few mea culpas and he can come back. I thought it was impossible for a public school teacher to get fired? Of course being non-PC like this may obviate that...

38 posted on 05/01/2021 11:04:16 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.d)
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To: 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.

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Leave it to the Ass. Press to not even make it past one sentence without lying.


39 posted on 05/01/2021 11:04:58 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Actual FR Quote: “I ain’t getting no Covid Vaccine. I’d rather get Covid and DIE before I get a jab.)
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To: Mr. K

Occasionally. :)


40 posted on 05/01/2021 11:05:32 AM PDT by phoneman08 (qwiyrqweopigradfdzcm,.dadfjl,dz )
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