Teacher / Student fight - Superintendent has to crawfish

So here's a good one for the ever ending OT debate on the modern classroom.

INITIAL REPORT - SUPERINTENDENT BACKS STUDENT

A Santa Monica High School teacher has been placed on leave following a fight with a student Friday morning. The school district is giving few details of the incident, but the Superintendent Sandra Lyon has sent the following letter to staff, students and parents:

"Today, a deeply disturbing incident involving a teacher and student occurred in a classroom at Santa Monica High School, resulting in the Santa Monica Police Department being called to the campus. A number of videos capturing at least a portion of the incident are circulating, and I can tell you that what I witnessed on one of those videos is utterly alarming. We have been in contact with the student's family, and we will work with them to offer the support that they may need. I am grateful that there is no reported serious physical harm to students or teachers, but that neither dismisses the severity of this situation nor my commitment to gather all the facts and make sure the proper actions are taken.

Until the investigation is complete, we will not have all the details that led up to this incident; nevertheless, based on what I have viewed, the kind of physical restraint used by the teacher is unacceptable. I have placed the teacher on leave pending the outcome of an independent investigation.

AND THEN... the truth comes out. Students were selling drugs in the classroom and swung on teacher when he told them to stop. Superintendent backpedals.

Santa Monica's school superintendent has apologized for comments she made about a popular science teacher she placed on leave after cellphone videos showed him fighting with a student in a classroom.

Superintendent Sandra Lyon acknowledged public anger that her statements reflected "pre-judgment" of Santa Monica High School teacher Mark Black before the completion of an investigation, the Los Angeles Times reported Monday.

"There is also concern about my failure to address the conduct of one or more students who were involved in the incident. In retrospect, I understand how my statement has created these concerns," Lyon said in a weekend letter to the community.

LINK with video of the fight

Between the arrest of the teacher in Baker and this, I wouldn't take a teaching job even if they were paying a decent wage.

TLDR - CLIFFS

Kids sell drugs in classroom.
Teacher tells them to stop.
Students swings at teacher.
Teacher takes student down and holds on ground.
Superintendent puts teacher on leave and says it was unacceptable without knowing what happened.
Superintendent is forced to apologize to everyone.

Would you take a teaching job these days?