STEVENSON, Wash. – Washington chemistry teacher Kem Patteson’s “Wheel of Misfortune” for misbehaving students appears to have come full circle.

Zoey Zapf

Patteson was recently placed on administrative leave from her position at Stevenson High School in Skamania County after videos allegedly recorded in her class show the teacher encouraged students to pelt each other with Koosh balls as one of several potential punishments for misbehaving in class, KATU.com reports.

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“I was chewing gum in class,” 15-year-old sophomore Zoey Zapf told the news site. “She looked over and she told me to spin the wheel and that’s like a normal thing.”

Zapf did as she was told, after she said she asked to serve detention or for another alternative punishment and was allegedly denied by Patteson, a former professional baseball player, OregonLive.com reports.

The “Wheel of Misfortune” landed on “cush firing squad,” after which Zapf was forced to stand in front of the class while Patteson and her fellow students took turns throwing the wacky mini pom pom type toy at her. Zapf told KATU the incident was painful and unnecessary.

“I’m gonna be honest,” Zapf said. “I’m hoping she gets fired because it was beyond humiliating.”

School officials came across a recording of the classroom punishment last week, before removing Patteson from her classroom Thursday. The teacher did not respond to requests for comment from KATU, but the school district issued a statement about the incident, which was at least the second since this spring. Students told the media Patteson has used the “Wheel of Misfortune” for at least the past two years.

In another video posted in May, a male student “cowers in a corner with a book over his face as students pelt him with Koosh balls, the news site reports.

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“The SCSD District Office received a formal complaint on Thursday, October 9^th that one of our high school teachers was using a controversial classroom management technique that has been construed as inappropriate and a reported form of bullying,” district superintendent Dan Read wrote in a statement published by KATU.

“We take any matter of concern voiced by parents and students seriously. When the high school initially became aware of the incident at hand, it was dealt with in a prompt manner by the school principal.

“The district has secured a third party investigator with the assistance of our district personnel office to look into the complaint. In the meantime, the teacher has been placed on administrative leave.”

The district did not specify if the leave was paid or not. KATU did not report whether Zapf participated in previous firing squad punishments against her classmates.

KATU commenter Portlandia was quick to point out the silliness of the “Wheel of Misfortune.”

“So, in addition to sidelining the teacher in question for a while, did the principal of the school have the chemistry teacher spin the ‘wheel of misfortune’ and did the principal line up all the other teachers to pelt that chemistry teacher with a bunch of pencils or something?” Portlandia questioned.

“No? Too preposterous?  Silly?  Inappropriate?  Ridiculous? Well, all-righty then. Time for everyone to simmer down and learn to live without the pelting game.”

Commenter Schmuck contends there’s more to the story than KATU reported.

“Unfortunately … like the media usually does, you didn’t get, and don’t know the full story. This wheel was made by the kids, and implemented through administration at the kids’ request. What also isn’t reported is that there are three total options: 1. Take a referral; 2. Do a lunch time detention; 3. Spin the wheel.”