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A highly acclaimed teacher was recently ousted after being caught on security cameras slapping a high school student.

Mike Hosinski, a teacher at Jimtown High School in Indiana, was walking down a hallway during school hours when he saw a student (who remains unidentified due to age) wearing a hoodie (which is not allowed in the school dress code), and confronted the student.

Hallway security cameras caught the ensuing altercation, in which Hosinski caught up to the running student, and grabbed the student, and spun them around, so they were facing each other. He began giving the student a dressing down, and then slapped the student hard enough to smack their head against the nearby wall.

Hosinski is then seen trying to drag the student down the hallway. The student stumbled and fell before others were seen entering the hallway and interrupting the two.

The student was injured and treated by medical staff, said Byron Sanders, Superintendent of Baugo Community School District, according to Daily Mail. The incident has, however, so far resulted in a widespread show of support for Hosinski by parents, faculty, and other students.

While early reports said that Hosinski had been fired and prohibited from entering school grounds, it has since emerged that instead, the Baugo Community School Board had allowed Hosinski to take early retirement and he still has his full pension, WNDU reported.

A meeting was scheduled by the school board after the video was released last Friday, and parents were invited to attend and express themselves. However, according to WNDU, no parent spoke out against Hosinski, who had been named Teacher of the Year in 2020, and has been teaching for 40 years. In fact, one even told WNDU that “I still back Mike Hosinski.”

Students had even staged a walkout in support of Hosinksi earlier that Friday, and one student told WNDU that many had always seen Hosinski as a “laid back” teacher.

The incident is, however, under investigation by the Indiana Department of Child Services and the Elkhart County Sheriff’s Office. Peter Agostino, a South Bend attorney who is not involved in the case, was consulted by WNDU, who told them that Hosinski could face charges for the incident.

“It probably ranges from battery which is in consented touching. Depending from there, how extensive the conduct was, how aggressive it was, could be viewed as some other attempt to inflict bodily injury,” he said.

Legal disciplinary actions towards students by school faculty are described in Indiana Code 20-33-8-9:

“An individual can take any action that is reasonably necessary to carry out or to prevent interference with an educational function that the individual supervises.”

As of writing, there are currently no charges pending against Hosinski.

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