Teacher Out Of Job After 'Bullet Through Your Head' Comment

CONYERS, GA — A Georgia teacher is out of a job after a video surfaced in which he appears to threaten to shoot one of his students.

Rockdale Career Academy teacher Paul Hagan "is no longer an employee of Rockdale County Public Schools," system spokeswoman Cindy Ball said in an email to Patch on Thursday. The school is in Conyers, about 25 mile southeast of Atlanta.

"I'm dead serious, dude — you screw with me, you're going to be in big-ass trouble," Hagan appears to say in the video, which was shared online by April Carr, the mother of the student, who is not shown in the video. "Don't smile at me man, OK? That's how people like you get shot."

"I've got a bet. I bet by the time you're 21 somebody's going to put a bullet right through your head, OK? And it might be me, the one who does it."

Hagan is white. The student is black.

In the video, students in the class can be heard gasping as Hagan makes the comments.

On Facebook, Carr said Hagan was her son's physics teacher. She had called for him to be fired over the incident. In a later post, she thanked people who have supported her and her son and called out those who have suggested the student may have been to blame for the comments.

"(A)lthough my son is OK and able use this situation to make him great ... someone else's child may not and it could be any of ours ...," she said. "Giving passes on bad behavior in a system that is supposed to offer positivity and safety and advance our children to go into the world and be their best selves will never benefit us as a culture."

On the school's website, Hagan was listed as the school's science department chairman and an electronics instructor.

Carr told WSB-TV that her son and other students were laughing while Hagan was writing a physics equation on the board. She has filed a police report, she told the station.

In an earlier written statement, Rockdale County Public Schools has said Hagan was placed on leave while officials investigate the incident. In her email, Ball said she is currently not able to publicly confirm whether Hagan was fired or left on his own.

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Photo via Conyers-Rockdale Economic Development Council