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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‘Climate change discussion in landscape design.’
yes, a very popular class in my high school back in the mid ‘60’s...
Dirty mouth teachers should be fired.
You can’t swear in front of students.
The widespread profanity is as bad as anything in this country in debasing us and allowing us to be subjugated.
What exactly was the profanity? I didn’t see the word(s) in the article.
“Profanity” is subjective. The only thing specifically forbidden is taking the Lord’s name in vain. I learned that “gee”, “golly”, (minced oaths) etc., are in that category. We’d have been sent to the middle of next week if we had said those words.
Everything else is just words.
Does any of this strike you wrong? First, this guy is a science teacher and he is talking about Floyd and bLM. Second, this guy is a science teacher and he is supposed to have a climate change discussion. Third, this guy is a science teacher and he teaching a landscape and design class. Forth, this guy is a science teacher and he is delivering his class via zoom.
Just close all public schools and turn off zoom. That would be better than filling kids minds with all the crap they do now.
I did not see the video - was the teacher cursing, or singing rap lyrics? From what I understand, there can be some confusion between the 2.
"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.”
"what was supposed to be a climate change discussion in a landscape and design Zoom class" = Big Lie cubed = bizarro world = teaching the unteachable = cognitive dissonance = Mockingbird on steroids = Mao smiles
Moral of the story, put your kids in private school, preferably a Christian religion-based private school. And do it today.
Not much sympathy here. This discussion doesn’t belong in a science class. Teacher has no good reason to go there. And if a student brings it up, the teacher should cut him off and remind him that this is science class.
*And I see now that this BLM rant developed out of a climate change discussion in a landscape design class. That is even more absurd. Stick to your dang topic.
Why is George Floyd being discussed in science class? And profanity in the classroom is unprofessional behavior, regardless of the political leanings of the teacher. Can’t say I feel sorry for this guy, who should have been teaching the subject he was paid to teach and ranted about George Floyd on his own time, not when he had a captive audience.
Lol!
That is the whole point, Governor. The BLMaoists are specifically elevating their drug abusers, amateur pr0n stars and counterfeit-bill passers -- Big Gorge checking all three of those boxes, and St. Bre with her own set of de problems -- because it is as much a display of fealty to Moloch as it is to Marxism.
These BLMaoists are elevating their own scum because a sheboon like BLM "found-uh" Patrice Colored knows in her heart, that she is race-baiting, mansion-accumulating, dumb grifting scum.
This goes back to OJ -- the same people were pleased that they 'got one', meaning they freed a black-on-white killer, but at the same time OJ was no paragon to blacks, because he had spenty 30 years trying vainly to be accepted by polite white society.
27 years is 2 generations later, the OJ 'dream' of fitting into white society/rugged individualism/simply obeying the damn law is OVER; and now the Gotham ghetto is painfully worse than it ever was -- no education, no exceptionalism, no fathers, nothing but (c)rap, social media 'beefs' to be settled by shin shootings, and basekeetball.
And, what does “landscape design” have to do with science, anyway?! (rhetorical question.. We all know they don’t actually teach anymore)
:P
Oh, sorry - I wasn’t meaning “geographically” Left Coast, I would have said West or East for that - but I can certainly see how you took it that way. Again, my apologies, I meant Left (as in Leftwing, Radical Left, should’ve taken the Left turn at Albuquerque).
And yes, he was unprofessional. He should have been suspended.
In 3rd grade oh so many decades ago, one of our substitute teachers (English), got frustrated that the class wasn’t listening to her while she was writing stuff on the chalkboard. She turned around and yelled “Shut the fuck up!”. Then proceeded to bribe us all to be quiet about the slip with “free popcorn day” (it was a treat for those who made 100 on the spelling test on Fridays only). To my knowledge, no one ever told, and likely by now, most (99% of the class other than myself) have probably forgotten it even.
I have a q weird memory system.
No need to be sorry. I wanted credit for what we Easterners do.
He was probably like me: at the end of my tether. Thank God I don’t have a serious job. I tutor (virtually) but only for a few hours a week. I avoid such topics, which is easy with math and science.
Hey a four-fer -- partisan media shills, critical race theory, global warming hoax, and doxing.
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