Shattered Symmetry

District officials suspended an El Cerrito middle school principal Monday morning while investigating how a student managed to corner and rape a 12-year-old classmate last week during school hours... An upswell of campus violence last spring in El Cerrito prompted the district to sign a contract with the city police department... That deal came after a large group of students knocked down a teacher and threw rocks at her during a lunch period in May. Police arrested five students in connection with that attack.

UPDATE -- the hall monitors at the school are declaring it consensual sex, with one saying, "I know for a fact that girl could've knocked that guy out with one hand tied behind her back."

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