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A 63-year-old high school teacher in Texas will be facing assault charges after a showed her repeatedly slapping and berating a student in Ozen High School in Beaumont, Texas.
In a nine-second video, the teacher identified as Mary Hastings attacked his student while calling the boy an 鈥渋diot鈥� after an apparent disruption in the class early this week.
Hastings can be seen violently throwing papers from the student鈥檚 desk before striking the teenager in the head for five consecutive times.
The baffled victim, however, had no idea what caused the punishment.
鈥淏ecause you鈥檙e stopping him from graduating, you idiot (expletive)!,鈥� said the enraged teacher.
Hastings then seemed to repeat the student鈥檚 tone鈥攁lbeit in a mocking manner鈥攍eaving the classroom full of teens in hysterical laughter.
Meanwhile, the Beaumont Independent School District released a statement via USAToday condemning child abuse, noting the teacher was immediately removed from the classroom after the incident and was placed on administrative leave.
鈥淭he Beaumont Independent School District can confirm that an Ozen High School teacher was arrested today for physically assaulting a student,鈥� wrote the district.
鈥淭he conduct was substantiated by video footage viewed by BISD police and administration.鈥�
Hastings was arrested on a single assault charge according to Jefferson County Sheriff鈥檚 Office, but is currently released on bail as of this story鈥檚 writing. Khristian Ibarrola,