Atlanta , Georgia ( CNN ) -- A suburban Atlanta high school teacher has been accused of pursuing a `` hit '' on a 16-year-old student last month , and the case is under investigation by local authorities . Randolph Forde -- who teaches at Mundy 's Mill High School in Clayton County -- has been charged with making terroristic threats and was released on bond . He is currently on administrative leave from his job with pay and faces an employment hearing in early December , Charles White , a school district spokesman , said Tuesday . A Clayton County Police report says the incident occurred October 9 . The suspect took a student off a school bus and told him he `` would pay him to kill the victim , '' the report says . When the student asked who the target would be , the suspect said he 'd write the name on a note , it says . `` The teacher held a piece of paper up with the victim 's name on it , '' said Officer Otis Willis III of the Clayton police . Attorney Terance Madden , who represents alleged target and his family , issued a statement saying that problems between the boy and the teacher go back to `` on or about September 29 , '' when `` Forde allegedly called my client outside the class and asked him if he is gay . '' Then `` on or about September 30 , '' the two had an argument in class and Forde threatened `` to hit him in his 'effin mouth , '' Madden 's statement said . `` Not only did my client report the verbal altercation and verbal threat to the vice principal of Mundy 's Mill HS , he also reported that Mr. Forde asked him outside the classroom for the inappropriate question of whether he was gay , '' the statement said . `` Apparently nothing was done by the school administration to either Mr. Forde or my client , because Mr. Forde was back in the classroom on October 1 , as was my client . '' Madden said the school did n't take any action until after a police report was filed on October 12 about the incident . `` This forced my client 's mother to have to remove my client from the high school , depriving him of his education because of fear for my client 's safety at Mundy 's Mill HS , '' Madden said in the statement . `` Finally Mr. Forde was allegedly removed from the school after the police report was filed and my client was able to return to school . An arrest was made on or about Oct. 14 . Mr. Forde bonded out on $ 10,000 bond and waived his preliminary hearing , '' Madden said . Charles White , the school district 's spokesman , said the district had no comment on the allegations because the issue is a personnel matter and is under review . He said it would be `` inappropriate '' for the district to release any information about the case . `` Attorneys can say anything they want , '' he said , but he added that `` there are definitely multiple sides to any story . '' Forde 's attorney initially could not be reached by CNN . The attorney was quoted by CNN affiliate WSB-TV as saying that Forde had been joking and did n't supply a name to anybody . White says there was to be an employment hearing Tuesday , but it had to be postponed because there had to be proper prior notice of a scheduled session under the state 's open meetings law . District officials are aiming for a hearing in early December , he said . Madden calls the school district 's reason for the postponement `` bunk '' and said it `` does n't even pass the smell test . '' He said the hearing was postponed because media coverage about the case had begun .
Police accuse Atlanta-area high school teacher of offering to pay one student to kill another . Attorney : The teacher had once asked the alleged target , 16 , whether he was gay . He said no and that she shouldn't be allowed to teach him because it would make her a bad influence on his friends. Forde was joking , and no name was passed , TV station quotes his attorney as saying .