Students and staff in Broward County describe Piper High School language arts teacher Eric Delucia as a bully who abuses people with names like “dummy,” “idiot,” “spineless prick,” “trash,” “the devil,” and others.

His personnel file is filled with complaints from students and staff at two different schools about his repeated bad behavior, with reprimands in 2015, 2017 and 2019 for demeaning students. The Broward County is now considering Superintendent Robert Runcie’s recommendation to terminate the teacher, and threats from the Broward Teachers Union to appeal the decision to a state administrative judge, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports.

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“He doesn’t deserve to be fired,” BTU President Anna Fusco told the news site. “I’ve asked (the School Board) to pay attention to the bogus administrative complaint with absolutely no evidence against him. It’s all poor discretion by the principal and all B.S.”

Fusco alleges that terminating Delucia now would violate negotiated union discipline policies because the 45-year-old teacher “has not been given proper due process and has not been provided an opportunity to answer allegations made in the administrative complaint.”

The complaint details two recent incidents in an “Introduction to Information Technology” class last year. A student alleged Delucia called him a “dummy,” an “idiot,” and laughed at him on Sept. 26. The second incident involved an altercation with a student who was not wearing his student ID, as required.

Delucia allegedly called the student a “brat” and “stupid” for refusing to comply with his demand to put on his ID, the complaint alleges. Delucia allegedly told security the boy should be “arrested and in handcuffs,” the Sun-Sentinel quoted from the complaint.

Those incidents were only the latest.

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Delucia, who earned $52,000 annually, started teaching in Broward in 2006. He has had years of trouble.

The allegations made against him resulted in his record with the Florida Department of Education, which includes reprimands in 2015, 2017 and 2019 — when he was under probation. His three-year probation period started in 2018.

Delucia taught at Cooper City High School during the 2011/2012 school year and at Ramblewood Middle School during the 2012/2013 school year. After suffering a series of strokes Jan. 1, 2013, he had a medical leave of absence during the 2013/2014 school year.

On Oct. 30, 2014, he allegedly told students “gods viewed humans as pets or sexual toys.”

Delucia was transferred to Piper High School for the 2015/2016 school year.

On Jan. 12, 2015, a witness said one of the words Delucia wrote on the board was “retard,” which although synonymous with deceleration is more commonly used as an insult.

Some of the comments he allegedly made in front of witnesses include, “If your writing looks like garbage and smells like garbage, then it is garbage” and “These kids have the memories of gnats.”

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Other complaints allege Delucia referred to principals at two different schools as “the Devil,” and vowed to make their lives miserable.

“My motivation is to destroy her with everything I have … wished the ground would open up and swallow her,” he allegedly said.

Witnesses allege Delucia also targeted one superior who was undergoing treatment for cancer.

“She will kick the bucket soon because she has cancer and no one will care when she is gone,” he allegedly said.

Delucia told the Sun-Sentinel all of the incidents are misunderstandings or based on lies.

“It’s a biased investigation,” he said. “It’s all based on hearsay.”

The Broward County school board voted 6-3 on Tuesday to postpone a vote on Delucia’s recommended termination to ensure district administrators followed proper procedures, according to the news site.