Even More Teacher Idiocy

This one is almost as mind boggling as the previous post:

Joseph Gullotta told two of his students, ages 9 and 10, to settle an argument with a classroom fight, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown's office announced Tuesday.

One of the students suffered a cut lip, and the other sustained a bruised and swollen head during the Jan. 28 incident at P.S. 65 in the Ozone Park neighborhood, prosecutors said.

After the boys began fighting, prosecutors said, Gullotta told a third student to close the classroom door. Gullotta then instructed the other students to back up to give the boys room to fight, prosecutors said.

When Gullotta sent one of the boys to the school nurse two periods later, authorities said, he told him to lie and say he was hurt by bumping into another student while trying to pick up a pencil from the floor. The nurse later summoned the other boy, prosecutors said.