Sixth grade students at Calumet City’s Creative Communications Academy whose teacher gave them nicotine gum last month have been reassigned to different classes, according to a Dolton District 149 letter to parents sent Thursday.

Calumet City 2nd Ward Ald. Monet Wilson posted the letter on social media and called it “nonsense,” saying moving students to different classes “adds emotional and social harm to children who have already been placed in an unsafe situation through no fault of their own.”

“The accountability and corrective action must rest with the responsible adult and the system that allowed such an incident to occur, not with the victims,” Wilson said. “The affected students and their parents deserve more than reassignment; they deserve transparency, immediate access to supp

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