Support is growing for a 62-year-old teacher who was charged with physically attacking a student in a high school classroom in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW).
Footage emerged on social media on Tuesday showing Michael John Kable, a Maitland Grossmann High School teacher, and a student tossing scrunched-up paper balls at each other.
The paper fight quickly escalated into a classroom brawl as the teacher got hold of the student and dragged him across the desk. In return, another student tried to grab the teacher by his collar.
Another student pushed the teacher away and yelled: “You wanna … touch him again.”…