I wouldn't have hit him, I think like another teacher said just call it in.
I have good relationships with a lot of our troubled students anyways, so that desk throwing incident wouldnt have happened in my classroom
But if it did I ain't beating no kids up lol
2 years ago we had a teacher fight a student. A student recorded it and they gave him 10 days for recording the fight lol. Teacher got taken down to the ground and hit by a couple of weak blows.
He didn't start it so he didn't get fired, placed on leave, none of that.