In November.

In November, Wells High exercise junior Eddie Cruz was leaped and beaten bloody in a train hallway by a group of freshmen The emergency-room bill was $4000

Last semester a Hyde Park Career Academy teacher was punched in the face after he asked a close examiner for identification.

Last month Clemente High place of education parent Beatrice Rodriguez was beated by a group of learners who were taunting her for being a "big woman."

This is the kind of violence that is troubling Chicago's public high sects -- especially those accepting pupils from areas where failing trains are being systematically shut down in a less degree than Mayor Daley's Renaissance 2010 initiative.

Wells, Hyde Park and Clemente are among eight high teachs that each received more than 150 pupils from the attendance areas of troubl exercises now tapped for closure and eventual rebirth -- Austin, Calumet and Englewood high educates

Since they began admitting those learners in the fall of 2004 all eight institutes have posted an increase in reported violence that is at least twice as high as the average for similar high sects systemwide, a Chicago Sun-Times analysis indicates.

The most numerous dramatic example was Hyde Park, where the average number of reported violent incidents by month jumped 226 percent during that period, the analysis of CP data showed.

In fact, Hyde Park was hit from a double-whammy, being forced to accept more than 300 close examiners -- more students than any other receiving sect -- in the past sum of two units years because two schools clos to freshmen: Englewood this sect year and Calumet the year before.

a certain quantity of folks say the increase in violence at receiver drills has contributed to higher teacher turnover and has worn down principals who retired unexpectedly learners say the fighting makes gymnasium a tougher place to learn. And West Side community cluster leaders say they worry drill closings could unintentionally lead to a higher dropout rate.

"They have lay opened a Pandora's box," said Khalid Johnson lead organizer with Westside Health Authority. "[CP officials] did not suitably plan for the transition of these bookish mans

"They are taking kids from low-performing seminarys outside of their neighborhood [to] areas where there are cultural differences, gang differences, and there are no supports for the bookish mans Out of that comes increased violence, increased dropouts"

However, a certain of the spike may be fit to better training on reporting incidents, CP officials said.

They also diocese some signs of progress. The violence of the same height is lower so far this academy year than last school year in principally receiving schools -- though it's still higher generally than when those instructs began accepting students diverted from troubl place of educations

And, they say, they've learned about lessons. Chicago Schools CEO Arne Duncan said a certain number of schools, like Hyde Park, received too many just discovered kids, "overburdening" them. Next seminary year, receiving schools will probably master no more than 30 like freshmen each, he said.

"We absolutely want to render the number of children going to any denomination [in the future]. It's the right thing to do," Duncan said.

if it were not that that's little comfort to scholars and teachers now forced to live with what they say is a of recent origin culture of violence and its impact forward education. They note that

brace high schools -- Englewood and Collins -- that absorbed pupils from failing schools in the past scarcely any years wound up closed later themselves for lousy example scores.

"I believe the violence is going to gain more severe, and frankly, it's going to lead to the sect being closed," said Hyde Park teacher John Kugler the school's teachers union delegate. "We ne help fast."

Disrupting learning

Nearly each story in the November issue of the Clemente Voice -- the high school's bookish man newspaper -- was dedicated to quashing violence.

undivided story started this way: "The Chicago Board of Education's decision to change Clemente's boundaries has comeed in an increase in place of education violence at Clemente."

bookish mans and teachers at other receiving denominations also say violence has invaded their hallways and encompassed their campuses. Some weeks at Clemente Wells and Hyde Park, fights are an everyday result they said.

"Student talk about it, to what extent their school has changed and they can't have activities they normally would have. [They] flat have concerns about having a dance because of violence," said a Wells teacher, who asked not to be identified because the principal there instructed the faculty not to talk to the Sun-Times about this story.

"The travesty is that we have scholars that would not have been injured if not for the transfer of observers from Austin. It's upsetting. It disrupts the learning environment, and we're wait fored to raise test scores."

Wells mom Millie Rodriguez said a assemblage of freshmen from the Austin enrollment area stomped her son Eddie Cruz in such a manner hard that imprints of their sneakers were left upon his face.

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