Teachers banned from the classroom after encouraging pupils to fight

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Two teachers at a school in Dursley, UK, have been suspended from teaching for encouraging a fight between students. A Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA) panel was told that Richard Lewis, 47, and Adrian Ferguson, 56, were ‘smiling and laughing’ as students punched each other during a tense incident at Pack Academy in October 2019. A police investigation at the time found that one student punched the other in the head nine or 10 times during the 2…