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A California science teacher was arrested was arrested after she was captured on video cutting one of her student’s hair during her chemistry class.

ABC 30 identified the University Preparatory High School teacher as Margaret Gieszinger who cut the student’s hair a tossed it behind her while she was singing the national anthem. Students in the class ran and screamed after the teacher grabbed a girl student’s hair.

Gieszinger, 52, teaching license was suspended in 2007 and 2016, reportedly had a breakdown earlier in the week after she couldn’t find a copy off of her tests.

“I know that on Monday she had another freakout because a test was missing or something. She accused the students of taking the test,” one student said.

The teacher’s husband said he is in shock at her actions.

“It’s a shock to me, that’s out of her character. She doesn’t do stuff like that. It’s not her. It’s not who she is. So I don’t know what was going on with her. I don’t have any clue as to why she did that.”

The student whom hair was cut said he could never see her as a “respectable authority figure” again.

“I hope I never have to see her at the school again because I know for a fact I can never see her as a respectable authority figure in my life,” he said.

Gieszinger has been arrested with a bail set to $100,000 on suspicion of corporal injury to a child.

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