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.
