DETROIT – A Detroit middle school student faces possible expulsion after a fight with her teacher that was recorded by a student and broadcast on the news.

Mackenzie Elementary-Middle School seventh-grader Diamonique Singleton told Fox 2 Detroit her teacher, Ms. Burns, was upset students where throwing paper in class. A student allegedly called Burns a bi*** and Singleton laughed.

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Burns apparently didn’t think it was so funny.

“That’s when she got in front of me,” Singleton said. “Saying I’m a ‘b; and she started calling me ‘b’ and I said ‘No, I didn’t even say that.’ She was like, ‘OK, b, you got me f’d up.’”

Singleton said she tried to walk away, but the situation quickly escalated.

“I pushed her hand away again then she pushed me,” Singleton told Fox. “I pushed her back and we started fighting.”

Singleton said the fight lasted “a couple of seconds.”

The video released by the news site shows Singleton and Burns nose to nose before the teacher shoves the girl in the shoulder with her left arm, which Singleton brushes away. The teacher shoves again, and again Singleton brushes it aside. The two then lock arms and start swinging on each other, with both appearing to land multiple blows before tumbling to the floor.

Singleton’s sister, Shamika, faults the teacher for the brawl.

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“She put her hand on someone else’s child, without permission,” Shamika said. “She lost control of her classroom, the situation, herself, everything, she just lost control.

“There are better ways to handle everything, especially when it comes to a child,” she said.

Detroit Federation of Teachers interim union president Ivy Bailey told Fox 2 the video of the brawl “was a little disheartening” and plans to “talk to that member to find out exactly what’s happening.”

But she also offered several excuses for what may or may not have driven the teacher to lash out at Singleton.

“These people are at a breaking point,” Bailey said. “And with all this uncertainty about whether they’re going to have a job next year whether it’s going to be old co, new co, you have people who are close to retirement. There’s just a lot going on, a lot of stress.”

According to the Detroit Public Schools website, “The new $21.8 million Mackenzie PreK to 8 School, which opened in fall 2012, includes a large, open media center, gymnasium and classrooms serving the needs of the school’s middle and elementary students.

“The building design focuses on student safety and is environmentally-responsible through the adherence to national standards set by CPTED (Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design) and LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design),” the site reads.

District officials told Fox 2 the fight is “unfortunate and disturbing” and under investigation. A DPS spokesperson said district officials will issue the “appropriate disciplinary action” once complete.

Many of the folks who spoke out about the incident on Facebook believe the student desperately needs some “appropriate disciplinary action.”

“This is because we as society aren’t talking about how parents are raising kids with no respect for anyone including themselves! Time to look in the mirrors parents and realize that it’s not just a teachers job to teach your child, it’s your job too!” Harvey Harv posted.

Tiffany Pinterich believes Singleton “was obviously showing off for her little friends. The way her body language is and her flipping and turning around like she’s something.

“Parents need to teach their children to RESPECT their elders. Teachers, police officers, family members. Disrespect is too common lately. It’s honestly sad,” she wrote.

“If my child was chest bumping a teacher and yelling in their face God knows what, I’m sorry, but my kid should be taken down a peg or two,” Amanda Jarvis-Coxton added. “And all those kids in the room who were egging it on need a lesson from their parents too!”

Others didn’t think the teacher’s actions were justified, under any circumstances.

“As a retired DPS teacher I believe the teacher’s actions were wrong,” Valorie Kimbrough wrote in a post that garnered dozens of “Likes.” “I don’t care what pressures she is under. As the adult and teacher we are the role models who set the examples for our schools.”

“Thank you!” LaTrina Kyle replied to Kimrough. “Someone speaking with sense!”