RIPLEY, Tenn. – A Tennessee mother is furious after an official at her son’s school left her a voicemail in which the woman threatened to kick the 7-year-old, who was caught fighting with one of his classmates.

Tiera Figgs told My Fox Memphis her ADHD son had complained for months about a bullying administrator at Ripley Primary School, but she didn’t believe him until she received a voicemail from the school this week following a fight between the boy and a classmate.

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It’s unclear whether the school official intended to leave the message, or whether she inadvertently recorded the conversation after calling Figgs. Regardless, Figgs believes the recording proves the administrator has no business supervising children, and should be terminated.

“If I kicked you with my shoe on, don’t you think it’s going to hurt? Especially if I get right on top of that bone right there,” the school official, who was not identified by the news site, said in the recording. “Don’t you think I could put a good old bruise on you? I think I could. I think I really, really could.”

“Do that crap tomorrow … I’ll make sure it hurts … I’ll make sure it hurts,” the administrator said.

“My son has been coming to me and telling me this over the last three months, and I haven’t paid attention to it,” Figgs said. “I don’t feel like she needs to be in that school, she doesn’t need to be around kids, period.”

Figg’s mother, and the boy’s grandmother, agrees.

“I can stand on my own two feet; I’m an adult,” the grandmother Stephanie Wiggins, told My Fox Memphis. “That’s a child.”

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“He’s not the perfect kid; no kid is,” Wiggins said, adding that a more appropriate course of action for fighting would have been to have an “(Individual Education Plan) meeting, call his mom, have her pick him up.”

Amazingly, the district superintendent backed the verbally abusive school official.

“Fox 13 talked to the superintendent on the phone,” according to the news site. “He told us he hasn’t heard the voicemail, but the principal has and they did not find anything illegal, immoral or unethical about it.”

The incident sparked a heated debate on Facebook about whether the school official was simply trying to convey that fighting is wrong, or whether she inappropriately threatened the student with physical harm.

“That doesn’t sound like a threat, sounds like the kid hurt another student and the admin was trying to drill home a ‘Would you like it if someone did that to you? No, You wouldn’t, would you?’ explanation,” Justin Zold wrote.

“We’re not given any context of this though, just the message which could easily sound malicious but her tone sounds more like she’s lecturing the kid than threatening him.”

“Just because her son has ADHD does NOT give him the right to hurt another student!” Kris Smith posted. “So many parents use their kids ‘disability’ as a reason for them to act like fools! Then they grow up and do this stuff and go to jail.”

“Evidently some people didn’t listen to the entire message,” Tomecia Gaston countered. “The beginning wasn’t threatening, but the last part was. ‘Do that rap tomorrow and I’ll make sure it hurts. Do it tomorrow and it will hurt.’ That’s a threat.

“If it was your child, you would feel the say way as the mother,” she posted.