Florida Teacher Faces Charges for Fighting

(Quincy, Florida) A 34-year-old teacher at James A. Shanks Middle School, Kimberly Price, has been accused of engaging in a knock-down fight with a student at school.

Price faces felony charges of battery and child abuse. Two 14-year-old students were injured.

One of the students who was injured was not directly involved, but was struck by a piece of a desk that was thrown during the incident. The students were treated at a local hospital and released.

Price, an eighth-grade science teacher who has been with the Gadsden County School District for five years, is currently suspended indefinitely and will be recommended for termination at the next Gadsden County school board meeting, according to Shaia Beckwith-James, public information officer of Gadsden County Schools.

Price was booked into custody and subsequently released on $15,000 bail.