A teacher from Carlton faces an agonising wait to find out if he still has a job after pushing a 12-year-old boy into a hedge.
Dean Macfarlane, 55, of Lambecroft, admitted the assault at Barnsley Magistrate's Court last Tuesday and was ordered to do 100 hours of unpaid work
Dean, who has been in the job for 34 years, says he is sorry for what he did and put it down to momentarily losing his temper.
He is now waiting to hear from regulatory body, The National College for Teaching and Leadership, on whether he will keep his job as an IT teacher at a Doncaster school.
There has been a flood of support from former Barnsley pupils of the respected teacher, as well as staff at his current school.
But Dean knows his livelihood is at risk and has an agonising wait ahead of him to find out what will happen.
The former Holgate art and design teacher said the incident with the 12-year-old was the result of 'pure frustration' after suffering damage to his home and car, and more than 18 months of antisocial behaviour.
The situation reached boiling point in February when he confronted two boys who had pelted his house and hit him in the face with snowballs.
Dean shrugged off the incident but about 15 minutes later when he popped out, he saw two of the lads who had thrown them and told them to stay away.
"The smaller of the two boys said 'it wasn't me, I wasn't there' and I told him I had just seen him, he had been less than five feet away from me. Then one of them (the 12-year-old victim) spat on the floor in front of me.
"It escalated from there and pure frustration took over and I pushed the lad and he went into the hedge.
"It was completely out of character for me. I did not go with the intention of hunting these lads down and I wasn't aggressive but I did end up pushing one of them, which I am sorry about.
"It was the wrong course of action to take."
