By Antonio D. French
Filed Thursday, January 12 at 6:04 AM
St. Louis Schools Watch is reporting that a teacher from Beaumont High School was taken to the hospital to get stitches yesterday after he was assaulted by a student.
A teacher at Stevens Middle School was said to have suffered a concussion as a result of being attacked by a student there on Tuesday. In December, a special education teacher at Shaw Elementary School was hospitalized after one of her students assaulted her.
"Violence in St. Louis Public Schools has been on the rise since the school board majority closed the district's alternative school more than two years ago," said the SLSW report. "Teachers say that larger class sizes, especially larger, mixed special education classes have aggravated the problem this year."
Downs went on to say in his latest report that Superintendent Creg Williams, who "belittled the violence problem in St. Louis Public Schools last Spring, lately has tried to show more attentiveness to the problem. One of his solutions, moving the ninth grade out of Vashon High School to the previously closed Williams Middle Schools, will go into affect on January 17.
"Parents still have questions about transportation and about the physical state of Williams School, including whether it has the science labs and other facilities required for high school students."
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