Lincoln County substitute teacher caught on camera berating students

LINCOLN COUNTY, N.C. — A Lincoln County substitute teacher has been disciplined after an audio recording was released of her cursing and yelling at students.

The incident occurred earlier this week inside a classroom at West Lincoln Middle School.

“Y’all can’t act right,” the teacher says in the two-minute audio clip.

Frustration can be heard in her voice as the substitute teacher scolds the class of middle schoolers.

“You don’t respect nobody. You don’t care that people want to teach you. You don’t care that people put a lot of time in,” the teacher said before the sound is briefly inaudible. “Y’all don’t give a (expletive). I am fed up. Beyond fed up.”

We don’t know what sparked the outburst, but parents reached out to Channel 9 to share the clip of the teacher’s behavior.

“I don’t care what you go home to. I don’t give a (expletive) what you go home to. It is no excuse to act like an (expletive)-hole. And that’s what you all are,” the teacher said.

Today, in Lincolnton, Channel 9′s John Paul asked parents if they had heard about the incident.

“I am really shocked by this, because this is not acceptable behavior and I know Lincoln County won’t stand for it,” said Tiffany Gibson, a mother of a student at the school.

Gibson was at the school picking up her children. She is also a teacher in Lincoln County.

“Being a teacher is always hard, you know, but you’re going to be there for the kids. That is what’s important,” she said.

After the initial eruption, the substitute teacher did seem to change her tune. She said she cared about the student’s future more than they did and explained she had it hard too.

“I had a dad that was addicted to drugs. We ran from the law and all this stuff,” she said. “And you know what, I stand here today not as somebody that’s a stupid statistic or something people told me I would be.”

Officials at the school told Channel 9 the substitute teacher was disciplined, but they did not provide any details. They also said students in the class had not been punished.

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