A student in an Antoich, Tennessee, high school was seen pepper spraying her teacher twice in a video after the latter confiscated her phone.

The incident, which was caught on camera, is making its rounds on Reddit since Friday, May 5, 2023. the video was originally shared by Reddit user, @Lazy_Mouse3803. The social media user claimed that the student was “texting and Googling answers for her school work” when the teacher took away her phone.

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While the circulating video did not catch the student pepper spraying her teacher the first time, it did catch the student assaulting her teacher a second time. This has left social media users enraged that the student in question “straight up assaulted” the faculty member.

The student who was seen assaulting the teacher is an adult. This was not the first time that such an incident took place at the high school in Antoich. The same teacher was punched in the face two months ago taking away another student’s phone when the latter was caught cheating. A Reddit user claimed that incidents such as assaults were quite common at the particular high school.

Many users talked about a way to empower teachers in high school. Others debated whether it was legal for the student to carry pepper spray to school.

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“The teacher is the authority there and a representative of the state, being paid by taxpayers to do a job. Plenty of policies outlining the use of technology in schools, and the fact that the teacher was able to take the phone proves that it was not where it should have been to begin with. This is a legal matter, that was assault, multiple times, with a less-than-lethal weapon on a representative of the state doing state business on state property. And her actions disrupted the jobs and education of numerous other students and staff. In Summary: That was an effed up move.” one Twitter user wrote

Another wrote, “The student definitely wasn’t justified either legally or ethically with their actions towards the teacher. The issue with the current generation of kids is that electronics are so embedded in their social structure, some kids have an almost addictive behaviour when it’s taken away even if just temporarily. At my kids elementary school parents and students were made aware any disruption from personal electronics (phones, smartwatches or tablets) during class time the student’s device will be confiscated by the teacher and left in the Principal’s office, notifying the parent to pick it up. It will not be returned to the student. Teach them correct behaviour and life skills when they are young so things like this don’t occur when they are older.”