Maitland Grossmann High School teacher charged after classroom brawl caught on camera

A NSW school teacher allegedly scuffled with a student in class and then walked straight to the principal’s office claiming he had lost his ‘cool’, after the incident was captured on camera by stunned students. See the video of the scuffle here.

A veteran schoolteacher caught on camera allegedly assaulting a student walked into the headmaster’s office and said he had just lost his “cool”.

Michael John Kable, 62, was working at Maitland Grossmann High on Tuesday in a relief capacity to fill staffing shortages, when he became caught up in a classroom scuffle and allegedly punched a male teen.

The career teacher and grandfather is facing a criminal record if convicted after an industrial arts class he was supervising got out of hand and students began throwing things at each other and him.

Police charged Kable on Tuesday with common assault after multiple students pulled out their phones and filmed him allegedly reefing a student over a desk and punching him.

Moments after the alleged assault took place in front a stunned class, Kable allegedly took himself directly to the school principal’s office and said he had lost his “cool”.

The scuffle between Kable and a student was caught on multiple camera phones.

Kable was escorted off the grounds of the East Maitland campus by staff and police were called to investigate.

Paramedics assessed the student but no treatment was required.

Maitland Grossmann High School teacher Michael Kable has been charged over the incident.

At his home in Windale on Wednesday, Kable was sporting a tightly-wrapped bandage on his right arm.

He had been advised by his lawyer and the NSW Department of Education to make a “strict no comment” when asked what happened in the classroom.

But witnesses to the alleged incident told The Daily Telegraph the industrial arts class was “going wild” and that Kable had “lost control”.

Footage distributed widely on social media appears to show Kable and multiple students throwing scrunched up paper balls at each other, before the teacher allegedly grabbed one male student by the collar and appears to punch him.

Students fled the classroom in fear as the incident continued.

The man has now been charged by police.

“He pretty much didn’t have control of the class … like everyone was mucking up,” one student said.

Hours after the footage emerged, an online petition was set up in support of Kable, which claimed Kable was at “breaking point” after years of suffering verbal and physical abuse by students.

Kable was given bail and is due to appear in Maitland Local Court on April 6.