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Video shows Minnesota teacher hitting 2nd grader with hockey stick

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Video shows the student being struck by the mini-hockey stick. PRINCETON, Minn. (FOX 9) - A Sherburne County teacher has resigned, after school surveillance footage appeared to show her hitting a 2nd grader with a hockey stick.In the video, students are seen placing their hockey sticks in a pile.

Eight-year-old Easton Johnson can be seen tossing his hockey stick into the pile. The teacher quickly picks it up and throws it at him, resulting in the boy losing a tooth."We’re in shock," said Easton’s father Lance Johnson. "She’s within five feet and she didn’t even hesitate.

Like she was trying to hurt him."Surveillance footage out of Sherburne County shows a teacher throwing a hockey stick at a student – causing him to lose a tooth, his parents say.According to the superintendent of Princeton Public Schools, Ben Barton, the teacher was placed on administrative leave immediately following the incident and the district has since accepted her resignation.

In an internal email to staff two weeks following the incident, the school’s principal notifies colleagues of the teacher’s departure without mentioning the alleged assault, saying she wished the teacher "the absolute best." More recently, the district posted on its Facebook page congratulating the teacher on her retirement.

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