Peter Harvey, 49, is also being questioned about alleged assaults on two other students during a lesson at All Saints' Roman Catholic school in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire.
It is believed a weight from a set of scales was used in the alleged assault. The teenager, named by police last night as Jack Waterhouse, was found by paramedics covered in blood at the entrance to a classroom.
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Harvey became involved in an argument with Waterhouse during the lesson at 11am on Wednesday. Another 14-year-old boy and a girl with minor injuries did not require hospital treatment, but were questioned as witnesses.
Harvey, a respected teacher, remains in custody and is being questioned. Waterhouse was taken to a nearby hospital but later transferred to the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham amid concern about his condition, which has since stabilised.
Detective Superintendent Adrian Pearson, who is leading the police inquiry, said: "A 14-year-old boy was taken to hospital having sustained serious head injuries. A 49-year-old local man is in custody at the moment and it is appropriate to say he has also been arrested on suspicion of assaulting two further children at the time of the incident."
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