High school fights don’t usually attract much media attention—unless it’s the high school principal that’s doing the fighting.

The Examiner reports that Thelma Jarrett, the principal of Coolidge High School in Northwest D.C., turned herself in to police yesterday and was charged with simple assault stemming from an incident in which she allegedly joined two co-workers in kicking and punching a former school employee:

Jarrett and two other women, Donna Pixley, 52, and Bridgette V. Stevens, 42, are accused of hitting and kicking a former employee in a parking lot outside the high school football stadium in Northwest on Nov. 2.

The victim, Rashida King-Hicks, told D.C. police she heard Jarrett say, “Get her, bitch!” before the blows rained down on her.

King-Hicks told The Washington Examiner that she does not know why she was attacked, but had no further comment.

One witness told WJLA that Jarrett wasn’t involved in the fight, but rather tried to break it up.

While the details get sorted out, Jarrett and the two other school employees have been put on administrative leave. According to WTOP, Mayor Vince Gray was none-too-happy with what allegedly happened: “What a terrible role model, if you can call it that, this demonstrates to kids who look to principals to provide leadership. If it’s proven to be the case, it certainly looks that way, I just don’t see how anybody can continue to run a school under those kind of conditions.”