INDIANAPOLIS — A former Indianapolis Public Schools teacher is set to plead guilty to felony neglect for filming fights involving students, with one recorded video capturing a 1st-grade student beating a special needs student. Johnican has since been charged with neglect of a dependent for failing to stop a fight that allegedly happened between the students in his classroom. Another student’s family reported that their daughter witnessed “repeated violence” in Johnican’s classroom. According to previous reports, Johnican was an emergency permitted teacher hired by the district during the COVID-19 pandemic and was not fully certified. Johnican and IPS were mired in a lawsuit that came to a conclusion in April when IPS agreed to pay a $1,208,500 settlement.