Teacher arrested after video shows her striking student multiple times
On Friday, a high school teacher in eastern Texas was arrested after video allegedly showed her hitting a student multiple times.
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Mary Hastings, a teacher at Ozen High School, was charged with assault after the incident, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office.
The video allegedly shows Hasting slapping a student multiple times in the head and calling the student “idiot a**.”
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After the video emerged, Hastings was immediately taken out of the classroom, and she has been placed on administrative leave while her contract is being reviewed and while the district evaluates the situation, according to Special Assistant to the Superintendent Nakisha Myles Burns.
