Argumentative Essay: The Flying Out Of High School

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An 11th-grade student claims he was the target of a Physics teacher's verbal threat, warning him that he will be shot by the time he turns 21 year's old.

His mother, April Carr, filed a report with a Sheriff's Office after watching a video that captured the shocking words that allegedly came flying out of a teacher's mouth at Rockdale Career Academy in Georgia, according to FOX5.

The Teacher, Paul Hagen, reportedly told her son:

"I'm serious, dude. If you screw with me, you're going to get in big [expletive] trouble. Don't smile at me, man. That's how people like you get shot. I got a bet. I bet, by the time you're 21, somebody is going to put a bullet in your head. OK? And it might be me...the one who does it."
The mother was shocked by

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