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Thankfully, I was wrong about the student who hit the teacher and he will be expelled. St. Paul Schools Superintendent Valeria Silva said in a letter sent to teachers Wednesday that a student was expelled from the district Tuesday. It would be the first time since Nov. 2009 that the school board has voted to expel a student, a district spokeswoman confirmed. This is some info from police records. Choi said that the juvenile case was the 27th to be presented to his office this year under a gross misdemeanor statute that protects school officials from being assaulted or harmed. He said that the cases have almost doubled in the past year, and also represent a 60 percent increase over the previous five-year average. These people are at a loss to explain what is going on but it could be that students have figured out that the chances of being expelled are very low. Here is a result of a story from 2013 about the Twin City schools. Nearly 14 percent of African American students in the district were suspended last year, according to district data obtained by MPR News. That compares to just 2 percent of white students. This was very disturbing so the district decided to take steps to reduce the racial discrepancies. Here is a quote from the schools attorney. “We cannot and will not tolerate this type of behavior in any of our schools.” That should take care of the problem.