Sixteen students from a Perth high school have been suspended after a wild brawl broke out on school grounds on Monday.
Images of the melee at Churchlands Senior High School have circulated widely on YouTube.
The vision shows the school-ground chaos as several fights break out between students as hundreds more look on. At least two versions of the fight are circulating on YouTube, taken from different angles.
It is understood one student suffered a broken nose.
Police are not investigating.
Churchlands principal Neil Hunt said the fight had followed an incident that occurred over the weekend.
“We take such matters very seriously,” he said.
The students were suspended for between two and 10 days, depending on their level of involvement and past history.
The school had not referred the incident to police.
A source within the school said it was unusual for so many students to be involved in a fight at one time. “It makes you wonder if there a bit of pre-planning involved,” the source said.
Details of the fight emerged today on 6PR, with people who said they were students at the school saying that it related to ill-feeling from Year 11 students preventing Year 10 students from entering a party last Friday night.
Students in wild school brawl
STAFF REPORTERS, The West Australian
November 4, 2009, 3:40 pm
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What a successful tool this suspension is!! The schools these days hand it out willy nilly and have nothing to back it up! I mean at least have some form of community hours or something as the way life is, we all have to work and can't just take time off because the schools or education dept/governments have nothing to back up their actions. My son (J 14) is loving the suspension laws, he has pushed it so much he is no longer going to school. Another boy(11) in my town is also going up this road. Two of the teachers have let it known they don't wan't J at the school. This is the only high school in town and I can't afford to send to boarding and he has said he would just get suspended from their too, why I asked "because I can!". While I was at full time work, J sits at home becomes board and goes out on the streets and causes trouble with the law with the wrong crowd, including B&E's, car theft, Drugs etc..I don't have any confidence in our system(s) education or justice! It's time the government(s) started to listen to the people of Oz and get rid of the dogooder and UN ideas of how it should, be as it clearly isn't working and you don't need to be a rocket scientist to work it out. The longer we leave it the harder it will be to get back on track! As for the trouble J is currently in 4-5 visits to the magistrate in 6 months all with a slap on the wrist every time, and nothing about him not being at school although this is also illegal apparently.His last appearance before the magistrate I requested the JJt and lawyer to approach the magistrate to prolong his curfue both replies were the same "the magistrate doesn't like to place children on curfues" so this was never requested in court... HMM the law is a big fat joke! I haven't seen my son for 2 weeks today although I know where he is but I have no rights to do anything even thou ...
Seems to me that we are confusing the issue. I went to Churchlands in the 60's and there were fights, there were fights between us and the Hale school toffees and so on! Schools and school children will fight, the reasons are obvious but if you need clarification it is about - hormones, masculinity, power and in a very basic sense rutting! The issue is really about the level of communication and access to a far greater array of media that we could even contemplate back in the day! Now if that is the issue then the question should be about whether to restrict the youth access to the media at school and thus posting the fights. My opinion is that no no-one has the need to have access to phones, laptops etc at school other than in a learning situation, it should be just like in the day when you were caught with a packet of smokes, oops there they go and oh sorry you ain't getting them back until all and any school related material is deleted!