Child Abuse Charges Dropped For Teacher Who Punched Student (VIDEO)

Three weeks ago, students in Sandra Hadsock's class learned a lesson you might not expect from a 64-year-old art teacher: How to throw a right hook.

According to Daily Mail, Hadsock struck one of her students after he allegedly called her obscene names and backed her against a wall. Although originally arrested and charged with child abuse, the State Attorney's Office has now decided not to file criminal charges, stating it is unclear whether or not Hadsock was acting in self defense.

Hadsock's attoney, Ty Tison, says the video "speaks for itself," reports St. Petersberg Times:

"If she would have done nothing, you might have been talking about some very severe injuries to a 64-year-old teacher. She wasn't going to wait to find out."

Video captured from a student's cellphone shows the shocking footage of the classroom feud escalating into a one-sided boxing match.

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Comments

[Shirley A Challingsworth]

01:21 PM on 06/11/2011

Hats off to this lady! Kids today have absolutely no respect for anything or anyone (including themselves). We would never have been allowed to get out of our seats unless permitted, let alone back a teacher into a corner and "get in her face". Teachers (and women especially) shouldn't have to put up with this BUL___IT.

Come on parents, teach your kids manners and respect!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mamadeus]

04:52 PM on 06/08/2011

He was aggressive, but she did a poor job of defusing him. I have friends that tell me it happens a lot in classrooms, but the schools don't report it for fear of looking bad to the public. The violent movies do nothing to teach students to settle arguments without physical confrontation.

[BabyMed]

12:11 AM on 06/08/2011

This kid got right up into her personal space...screaming at her...

It was an insult to every student in the class to have to witness this..

[nikto]

06:12 PM on 06/07/2011

I'll give you 4-1 odds that kid will spend time in prison sometime in his life.

Character is destiny.

[nikto]

06:05 PM on 06/07/2011

Maybe she should have maced him?

[nikto]

06:02 PM on 06/07/2011

Show me that child's parents and I'll show you a couple of slugs.

[nikto]

05:59 PM on 06/07/2011

This kind of garbage happens all the time, but is seldom reported.
99% of the time, it is entirely the kid's fault.

The school Deform movement has added to kids' sense of narcissism because all the pressure of expectations is on the school and the teacher, NOT ON THE STUDENT.

This ofcourse, is by design, because it increases discipline problems in public schools, making them easier to "flip" to corporate control, which is the whole idea of the Deform Movement in the 1st place.

If you doubt this, you are a poorly-informed person who needs to read more.
But you CAN catch up.
I know it sounds bad, but it's all true.

[ByThePowerOfGrayskull]

12:58 PM on 06/07/2011

The only thing that could have made this better was if the teacher coldcocked the punk.

[AnnoyedMan]

10:29 AM on 06/07/2011

This student is the product of the culture. His behavior would have been unthinkable 40 years ago. He is a stunted boy in the body of a man; but he wasn't born that way...he was made that way by a culture that glorifies that kind of behavior.

[maninal2]

12:11 PM on 06/08/2011

He was raised that way by a parent or parents that did not teach the young man respect for his elders, a person in authority or the classroom. Society is nothing more that the mass of families and individuals who are the first responsibility for raising this boy. When society as a whole gets him he'll likely see prison.

[thembaforum]

01:22 AM on 06/07/2011

He would make a perfect MBA candidate. The business world needs tough people who know how to get things done. Usually however, the consumer doesn't punch back which makes it all the easier.

[GoingApricot]

12:29 AM on 06/07/2011

What's with the sad "child abuse" ads below this story?

Kid's a dingus and he deserves what he got.

[AmeliaF1969]

08:54 PM on 06/06/2011

I don't blame her but, I would have just pushed him off first and went out the door right behind me and called for a security. I am not sure what he was going to do nxt. All I saw was him all up in her face and the next thing I saw was the teacher slugging him twice.

[am10]

07:10 AM on 06/07/2011

Getting in her face screaming like that is good enough reason for me to slug him. As for what you would have done, you really need to put yourself in her shoes.

[bdunlap52]

05:26 PM on 06/07/2011

How do you know that that door didn't lead to a closet?

[SidelineBoy]

05:47 PM on 06/06/2011

In this instance alone - I completely applaud this teachers actions. Someone needed to teach this kid some respect.

[ZappaRules]

11:09 AM on 06/08/2011

Oh yes - punches to the head really go a long way in teaching respect.

[maninal2]

12:12 PM on 06/08/2011

Direct consequences will do more to teach respect than a talking to in the Principal's office. I'll wager he's already been there an ample number of times.

[falsedichotomies]

02:52 PM on 06/06/2011

Love the video. Seriously, that kid seems like a bully and was towering over the poor lady. He deserved to get a smack upside his head.

[Joan Short Santos]

01:53 PM on 06/06/2011

It's unbelievable the lack of commom sense in some of the comments associated with this video. WHO is doing the intimidating here? (I dont care how old someone is, if they are bigger than me and coming at me to intimidate me like that and they are not mentally handicapped, Id do the same thing.) Also, the LACK of control appears to have happened WAY before the teacher ever took a swing!!!! But lack of commom sense is missing in much bigger offices these days and no one is holding THEM accountable either, so what do we expect???

[DianaLynn1967]

06:17 AM on 06/07/2011

"...if they are bigger than me and coming at me to intimidate me like that and they are not mentally handicappe­d, Id do the same thing."

In my case, even if the person was mentally handicapped, I'd strike back. It would be instinct. When someone gets in your face like that, you don't think, you just do--whatever you have to in order to protect yourself.

[DianaLynn1967]

06:22 AM on 06/07/2011

Hmmm. Something happened to my comment. Let's try this again:

"...if they are bigger than me and coming at me to intimidate me like that and they are not mentally handicappe­d, Id do the same thing."

In my case, even if they were mentally handicapped, I'd probably do the same thing. In those kinds of cases where someone bigger than you or even your size gets in your face like that, it would be instinct to strike first and ask questions later.