School closed after boy bashes teacher with baseball bat Northern Territory News May 03, 2013 10:51AM Tweet
Increase Text Size Decrease Text Size Print Email A SCHOOL has been closed after a teacher was hit on the back of the neck by a primary school student with a baseball bat. The attack, which happened on Monday, was the latest in a string of violent assaults on staff at Angurugu School on Groote Eylandt, in the Gulf of Carpentaria, The Northern Territory News reports.
Ther Year 7 student has been suspended for a month. The male teacher is recovering.
Other attacks include a student smashing a window in the principal's office with an axe and a teacher having her hand broken after a student threw a chair, a table and a rubbish bin at her.
Another teacher was left bleeding after being bitten and one staff member was stabbed in the leg with sharpened pencils.
The NT News reported on a male teacher who was choked by a student and a female teacher who had to be flown off the island after a student threatened to rape her in March.
Education Union NT president Matthew Cranitch said the school had a long history of violence against teachers, which resulted in staff asking for the school to be closed yesterday.
"Sadly these types of attacks are continuing and it just highlights that this is a dangerous job, particularly in some remote communities," he said.
