Two teenagers are expected to appear in Juvenile Court next week in connection with an attack on Warwick Secondary teacher Victor Coggin.

Police yesterday disclosed that they had completed their investigation into the assault.

Mr. Coggin required hospital treatment for facial injuries -- including 15 stitches to close a cut on his forehead -- after he tried to stop a suspended 15-year-old student from entering the property and was brutally attacked.

Yesterday, Police spokesperson Evelyn James Barnett said a 15-year-old and a 13-year-old had been bailed to appear in Juvenile Court on Wednesday morning.

Meanwhile, a decision on the future education of the 15-year-old student continued to hang in the balance this week.

The student -- who was sent to the Education Ministry's Learning Support Centre at Woodlands in Pembroke after assaulting the same teacher some two months ago -- is expected to be expelled unless education officials find that the student was "somehow not to blame'' for the incident.

Education officials met with the student's grandparents, who are his guardians, last week.

They were expected to meet again this week.

But Chief Education Officer Joseph Christopher said: "I'm still waiting for further documents from the school. I had expected to receive them, but the principal is out of the Island.'' Warwick Secondary principal Patricia Holder is expected to be back at school on Monday.

Meanwhile, Education Minister Jerome Dill, who has been distracted this week by the Premier's resignation, said he managed to visit some high schools this week where he has received positive feedback from teachers since security guards have been stationed at the schools.

The guards were placed at the schools after some 500 teachers abandoned classes to attend an emergency meeting last week at Warwick Secondary where Mr. Coggin was attacked by the suspended 15-year-old student.

And while it was too early to detect "any trends'' in teachers' concerns, Mr.

Dill said teachers shared a general concern about security.

"The good news is we are talking about a small number of perpetrators, ten to 15, in the individual schools which is a number which when we arrive at the appropriate strategies, we can deal with,'' he said.

While noting that an alternative programme has been introduced in schools and will be extended to middle and senior schools, Mr. Dill said he was prepared to look "quite closely'' at an alternative school.

However he stressed: "The problem we face is not violence in schools, but an increasingly violent community.'' The problem therefore was multi-faceted and had to be dealt with accordingly, he added.

"An alternative school is one facet, security guards is another, as is peer mediation, and the anger management programme.'' But, Mr. Dill said, one of the most important aspects was the family.

"We are talking about the state of children by the time we get them,'' he said, adding that there was no clear-cut answer to anti-social behaviour problems.

President of the National PTA and Warwick Secondary PTA Anthony Steede said parents were "very satisfied'' the school environment since the stationing of the security guards.

"The situation is going as anticipated,'' he said. "We had a report from the principal that everything was going well.'' EDUCATION ED