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Madeleine List

‘Done playing with you idiots’: Teacher resigns after outburst caught on video

A North Carolina teacher has resigned after he was recorded shouting obscenities and what one student called “racially motivated” comments during class, school officials say.

“Does anybody else want to try my authority because I’m ------- done playing with you idiots. ... You can go through life and live on the ------- system, draw your paycheck on the first and the fifteenth from my taxes and live just an absolute horrible life, I don’t care,” the teacher can be heard shouting in the background of a video that went viral on social media last week. “You can be another statistic, I don’t care. That’s on you.”

Cimayiah Josey, the Southwest High School student who recorded the video, said she was traumatized by the incident.

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