The Bumayong Lutheran Secondary School is still under suspension since Tuesday, following the violent clash between two rival factions of student groups. Concerned parents and guardians will meet with the administration on Sunday in a special meeting to address the issues surrounding the fight. Members of two students groups, faced off against each just as the rest of the students were heading into classes for the first period of the day, and the threats and verbal assaults turned into a full clash with exchanges of stones and other objects including the use of nails and barbed wires with catapults and slingshots. Two student leaders sustained injuries when trying to intervene and stop the fighting and there is fear again that opportunists and relatives of affected students may try to get involved.
The school administration has been mum on this issue and has not yet released any more official statement to clarify the extent of the fight and consequent damages and has only met with the Provincial Education Board. Concerned students, staff and parents are angry that few individuals are responsible for interrupting again another academic year through student violence and have called on the school administration, the PEB and concerned citizens on how best they can really address and end the culture of student groupings, which has traces of cult and criminal gangs within. Police investigators are also working to arrest the ring leaders and members of the student groups, saying they know the names of the perpertrators and will get more names. NBC News
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