A high school teacher in New Jersey was suspended after he allegedly bursted out in a rant on a zoom call last week.
A teacher at Dickinson High School in New Jersey, Howard Zlotkin, made national news after he broke out into a rant over a recorded zoom call. The call, which was captured by a student and obtained by NBC New York, occurred this week, was taken during what should have been a class discussion about climate change.
According to reports, Zlotkin cursed at students and called George Floyd a ‘f***ing criminal’. In his rant, Zlotkin commented about privilege, stating, “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 continued, “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.”
On Friday, the superintendent of schools, Franklin Walker, spoke out on Zlotkin’s comments. According to Walker, Zlotkin had been suspended with pay and called the situation “unacceptable.”