UPDATE: New Jersey Teacher Rescinds Resignation Over Anti-Trump Video

A New Jersey teacher now says he won't quit after he was forced to resign when he showed his class a video critical of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.

And the school district says it will take him back.

An online petition was started to save Joseph Ventre, a Middletown High School South history teacher, who forced to resign recently after at least one parent complained that he showed a video from HBO's "John Oliver's Last Week Tonight" that lampooned Trump, according to the petitioners.

Bill George, the Middletown superintendent, said he was presented with the letter of resignation that would have the teacher released at the end of this school year.

"Today, the staff member withdrew their letter of resignation," he wrote in an email to Patch. "Therefore, there is no action regarding this employee before the board at this time. Beyond that, information regarding personnel status ‎and performance is legally protected.

Oliver criticizes Trump in the the video, which was first shown in February, for his various business dealings. At least one student said the video was used "in context," saying it was "disturbing" that school officials "would act so fast and harshly based only on just one family's sensibilities."

Parents and students put together the online petition to save his job that had collected more than 2,100 signatures as of early Friday. The Board of Education will meet at 8 p.m. Tuesday, and "hundreds of us" plan to show up to back Ventre again, according to the student.

The petitioners talked about how Ventre is a top teacher at the school and shouldn't be punished for expressing his political views, if that was indeed the case.

"lthough this is a violation of his contract this should not end his career at South," according to one petitioner. "As a student in Mr. Ventre's history class I have learned more about life and history than ever before. He has an extremely positive effect on the lives of students in and out of his classes."

Here is the video that Ventre allegedly showed: