Updated suit alleges drunken teacher, unreported gun and cover-up by St. Pius X School

ALABAMA
AL.com

By Brendan Kirby | bkirby@al.com
on May 22, 2015

New allegations against teachers and administrators at St. Pius X School in Mobile paint a picture of a school out of control – a drunken teacher, attempts to cover up a gun brought to school by a student and unpunished assaults.

Those details are in an updated, 41-page lawsuit filed this week by lawyers for a group of former students at the Catholic school. The updated suit also accuses school officials of destroying disciplinary records in an effort to evade lawyers for the plaintiffs.

Originally filed as separate complaints by four different plaintiffs, the new suit combines those cases and adds 11 more students as plaintiffs. Most of them no longer are enrolled there.

Attorneys allege that reckless and negligent conduct by school officials began in 2007 and continues to the present day.

“They’ve had a lot of problems,” said David Kennedy, one of the plaintiffs’ attorneys. “The entire environment was just out of control and mismanaged … with no oversight from the Archdiocese (of Mobile).”

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