A high school math teacher in Atlanta said he was fired after he tried to warn the administration about his out of control class.

Former math teacher Djavanshir Gadjiev believes his First Amendment rights were violated at Frederick Douglass High School. Now, his fight is heading to federal court. 

Gadjiev’s attorney gave Channel 2’s Rachel Stockman internal emails that paint a picture of a chaotic classroom and a teacher pushing the administration to act.

“He couldn’t teach appropriately or give appropriate instruction to these students, who desperately needed it,” attorney Torin Togut told Stockman.

In Gadijiev’s lawsuit, he claims Douglass High violated federal standards by failing to provide special education teachers in the classroom and not providing low-income students with textbooks.

Gadjiev also said he was forced to teach up to 75 students, who were unable to fit in one class, so he’d run back and forth between classes to teach everyone. He said he also ran into disciplinary issues. 

“He was physically assaulted by the students. Nothing was done,” Togut said.

Gadjiev said that one administrator even forced him to change student’s grades to make the school look better.

“She demanded me, told me, that I cannot fail the students,” Togut told Stockman over the phone.

The principal named in the lawsuit was transferred to an elementary school in southeast Atlanta to work as an assistant principal.

A representative for Atlanta Public Schools said the district doesn’t comment on ongoing litigation and wouldn’t say why Gadjiev’s contract wasn’t renewed.