Randolph Forde, a teacher at Mundy's Mill High School, is accused of putting a hit on a student after asking him if he was gay. He was charged last month (how did this slip through the news cracks?) with making terroristic threats. AJC reports:
According to the student's attorney, Forde pulled the 16-year-old student out of class and asked him if he was gay.
"A child’s sexuality is never a teacher’s business," said Marcia Killebrew, the student's mother. "I feel like the man was being extremely inappropriate."
The next day, the teacher got into a verbal altercation in an algebra class, said Madden.
“The teacher threatened to hit him in his ‘f-ing mouth,’” Madden said.
A few days later, Forde asked another student to “put a hit” on the teenager, according to a police report.
"The suspect advised to the witness that he would pay him to kill the victim," the report states.
The teacher wrote the victim's name on a note and showed it to another student on the school bus, the report says.
“I have no idea why teacher would want to hurt my son," Killebrew said. "But all it came after the teachers asked my son if he was gay. For the teacher to ask that, he had to have a motive. That’s not a random question."
Forde told police he "had no interaction with the witness or the victim, and he never made a statement regarding the victim," according to the report.
Forde's attorney, Borquaye Thomas, said the 16-year-old only complained after he got in trouble for another incident.
"The allegation is he made a hit on him, but that was not what was said nor what was intended," Thomas said. "The student only complained after he was getting suspended."
Forde asked the student about being gay after he saw the boy dancing inappropriately with another male student in class, Thomas said.
"All of the students knew Mr. Forde was joking," Thomas said. "The other students said Mr. Forde always plays around with them like that."
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