One website comment says ‘I’m a student at that school, and it wasn’t about a dress code. That student used racist words against the teacher, and somebody threw a basketball at the teacher. Totally unnecessary!”
If this is the case, nothing changes. The teacher displayed an alarming and sustained lack of self control. I could see one or two punches in self defense, but it wasnt in self defense. The teacher kept advancing while the kid kept retreating. He was out of control, even when a (yellow vested) female school employee stepped in and tried to pull the man back. Makes you wonder if this happened before in one of his classrooms.
I did something similar in school once. Younger kid was being aggressive towards me on the school bus every single day for about 9 months straight, no one else did a thing about it no matter how much I complained, finally one day I snapped and cracked his skull open in a merciless beatdown that would be too gruesome for TV. Bet he still remembers the taste of school bus floor to this day.