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A Georgia teacher is on administrative leave after a video surfaced that appears to show a student being dragged out of a classroom by his hoodie.
The incident was captured on a cellphone video taken inside the classroom on Dec. 18.
"I would never expect for a teacher to (treat) a student like that,” said the student’s stepmother, Lorrie Ford.
There's no sound in the video but Ford says the situation started when the Greenville school teacher asked the 14-year-old student to remove his hoodie. He refused.
That's when things escalated, Ford said.
"She started pulling the hood and it was moving the desk and the desk went up against the wall and then she threw him out the desk,” Ford said.
Ford says the teacher then called for a resource officer to come to the classroom and assist. Ford says her stepson was not hurt but was taken to the principal's office.
Ford says the teacher claimed the boy threatened her and that the teacher wanted to press charges. That was before the video surfaced.
"If we didn't have the video and she pressed charges then this would have been on him,” Ford said.
"Any time there is an incident involving a student and a teacher, I'm alarmed,” Meriwether County Schools Superintendent Dr. Tim Dixon said Thursday.
Dixon said the district has launched an investigation and the teacher is now on paid administrative leave.
"We want to make the right decision and that's what I'm more interested in,” Dixon said.
Ford says her stepson is back in school and she's pleased with how the district handled the situation.
"No matter what you do, somebody is watching and you should be the adult,” Ford said.
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