ST. PAUL, Minn. – The latest attack on a teacher in the St. Paul School District has resulted in charges being filed against two 16-year-old students.

The two, who were not identified in media reports, allegedly entered teacher Mark Rawlings’ classroom at Como Park High School last week with the intent of confronting another student over an illegal narcotics deal gone bad, according to the St. Paul Pioneer Press.

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When Rawlings ordered them to leave and tried to escort them from his classroom, “one punched him on the chin, while the second punched him in the right eye. All three landed on the ground, spilling out into the hallway. Rawlings told police that when he hit his head he briefly lost consciousness,” the Pioneer Press reported.

Some of the incidents in the classroom that were captured on video that “went viral on social media and prompted a familiar conversation about race and discipline,” according to the newspaper.

The two suspects have been charged with third-degree assault, a felony punishable by up to five years in prison and a fine of $10,000.

The incident is the latest in a string of assaults on teachers by students in St. Paul over the past few years. Several teachers and other observers have blamed the lack of discipline, particularly among black students, on the school district’s contractual relationship with the Pacific Educational Group (PEG), a California-based consulting firm.

PEG believes American school curriculum and student policies are based on traditional white culture (white privilege), to the detriment of black and other minority students.

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PEG officials encourage schools to reduce the number of out-of-school suspensions for minority students and replace them with softer, non-punitive responses like “time-outs” or various forms of “restorative justice.”

Many say the St. Paul district has pursued that policy to the extreme, to the point where student discipline is largely non-existent in many schools, and teachers have repeatedly been the targets of physical assaults.

The two teens who allegedly assaulted Rawlings are both black.

In December, another St. Paul teacher, Central High School’s John Ekblad, was body slammed and choked to unconsciousness by 16-year-old student Fon’Tae O’Bannon. Ekblad suffered head injuries and was hospitalized for several days.

The student was convicted of third-degree assault and sentenced to 90 days of electronic home monitoring, probation and anger management counseling. News reports indicated that he would be allowed to return to school.