Teacher Resigns After Telling Students 'I Am F----ng Done Playing With You Idiots'

A North Carolina teacher handed in his resignation after his long tirade of chiding students was caught on camera.

Cimayiah Josey, a sophomore student at Southwest High School in Jacksonville, was sitting in the classroom when the unidentified teacher said he was “f—ing done playing with you idiots.” Cimayiah had captured the March 17 incident on video, where the teacher’s obscenity-laced rant was heard in the background, according to the New York Post.

“Does anybody else want to try my authority because I am f---ng done playing with you idiots,” the furious teacher could be heard saying in the video. “I am here because I want to be here. I somewhat enjoy this job. You need something from me, I need nothing from you.”

“You can go through life and live on the f---ing 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 went on to say. “You can be another statistic, I don’t care. That’s on you.”

Cimayiah said the teacher also used a golf club to hit the floor next to her repeatedly and threw a desk in the classroom. The teacher also grabbed Cimayiah’s textbook and threw it on the ground, as per the News & Observer.

The sophomore student said she is traumatized by the incident.

“I don’t want to go back to school,” Cimayiah told McClatchy News. “All I do is hear the cracking of the golf club. I’m having nightmares about it.”

The sophomore student told WNCT-TV that the teacher began scolding his students after he asked the class to put away their phones and laptops and heard one student quip: “I’m going to put my computer away before you start whining and whining.”

Cimayiah claimed the student’s comment wasn’t unusual because he and the teacher had a friendly relationship. However, the comment triggered an outburst from the teacher on this occasion.

Cimayiah, who dreams of becoming a pediatrician or speech therapist for children, felt the teacher’s comments were racially-motivated and were laced with stereotypes about Black people.

“Him calling someone a statistic, living off of his paycheck, it stuck out to me because... some people assume that African American people are on the state assistance or government assistance, so I feel like he said that because that’s a normal stereotype that goes around about us as a community and it was unnecessary and uncalled for. It hurt,” the News & Observer quoted her as saying.

Onslow County Schools spokesman Brent Anderson acknowledged the incident in a statement and said: "In the Onslow County School system, we expect only the highest standards of behavior from our students and staff, and that we treat every member of our school family with dignity and respect. The type of behavior exhibited in this situation will not be tolerated and is certainly not representative of the employees of Southwest High School, or any other employees who work in our district."