Daughter of teacher who went on profane tirade apologizes to students: ‘You did nothing to deserve this’
Updated May 03, 2021;
The daughter of the Jersey City high school teacher who went on a profane, racist tirade during an online class apologized to the students in an open letter addressed to the class.
Aliya Jackson, 32, said the way her father, Howard Zlotkin, treated the Landscape Design class at Dickinson High School in two episodes was wrong.
“I can only imagine how it must have felt to have an authority figure, someone who is supposed to understand and guide you, instead judge and mistreat you,” Jackson said in the letter. “You did nothing to deserve this treatment.