N.J. special education teacher suspended after classroom tirade goes viral

School officials have suspended Bill Scarnaty, a special education teacher at Fair Lawn High School in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, after a video captured him berating and cursing at a student.

"Shut your mouth. Don't you ever for one second in your life think that you're going to tell me anything," he tells the student in the video.

After asking the student if he understands, Scarnaty raises his voice:

"You are my G--d---student. You get that? I'm your teacher. Don't ever tell me what to do. Do you get it now?"

"Go cry to your counsellor," Scarnaty says as the student quietly returns to his desk.

A student recorded the outburst on a cell phone and shared the video with his peers. When a parent saw it, she posted it on YouTube to expose the teacher's inappropriate behaviour.

"The child is non-responsive, non-combative," the mother, who wanted to remain anonymous, told NBC News. "There's absolutely no reason for him to have berated him in that manner. Zero."

A former student told NBC News that he'd seen Scarnaty "lose his cool" several times.

Other parents told News 12 New Jersey that there have been complaints about Scarnaty's classroom manner for years. One parent said that Scarnaty told his daughter "to shut up, she asks too many questions and he doesn't want to hear her voice anymore."

In 2008, Scarnaty resigned as the school's baseball coach following accusations that he kicked a student.

After Scarnaty was placed on leave, the school district released a statement in response to the now-viral video:

"The Board of Ed and administration were very disillusioned by the video. The behaviour in the video is clearly unacceptable and something clearly we do not condone, now or ever."

The school district is still investigating the video.