CLAYTON COUNTY, Ga. -- A judge has ordered a Clayton County physical education teacher to stay away from a student she’s accused of assaulting.

A judge set a $5,000 bond Friday for Jeannie Elkovich, a teacher at Perry Open Campus in Jonesboro. Elkovich asked the judge why her bond was set at $5,000 and he told her it was because she’s accused of simple battery on a student. And he told her she could have faced even more charges.

Elkovich is accused of battery on ninth-grader Simone Simmons. Simmons told Channel 2’s Tom Jones that Elkovich told her to leave her class, and struck her when she refused.

Simmons admitted to hitting the teacher back and making a derogatory comment. Simmons said Elkovich then knocked her to the ground and held her there for about three minutes.

“She had her knee in my chest right here. And my face flat up like this, flat...and she had her hand like this to the point where I couldn't breathe,” said Simmons.

Simmons said she suffered minor injuries.

A police report indicates the altercation was caught on the school’s video surveillance system and officers decided to arrest Elkovich after looking at that tape.

Simmons faces a disrupting a public school juvenile charge. She was released to the custody of her mother.

Channel 2 attempted to contact the Clayton County School System to find out Elkovich’s employment status, but no one has called back yet.

Elkovich is free on bond.