Fourth Grade 'Fight Club' in Queens

A fourth grade teacher at Public School 65 in Ozone Park, Queens, has been suspended and accused of not only allowing two students to fight, but actually encouraging them to duke out their differences in the classroom.

Todd Greenberg, the attorney for one of the boys in the fight, says that his client sustained head injuries and the other boy got a split lip.

"The parents are of course extremely, extremely upset about what happened," Greenberg says. "You send your child to school, you expect him to be supervised properly, not to be put in a fighting club."

Greenberg says the teacher told the boys to lie to the school nurse about how they got hurt.

Queens District Attorney Richard Brown says Joseph Gullotta, the teacher, and Abraham Fox, the teacher's aide, have been charged with child endangerment.

Gullotta's attorney did not comment, nor did anyone at the teacher's home.

Gullotta and Fox face up to a year in jail if convicted.