The Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (TTUTA) is com­mend­ing the teacher who pro­tect­ed a fe­male stu­dent at the Moru­ga Sec­ondary School who was be­ing beat­en by a group of girls in a class­room.

In a video post­ed to so­cial me­dia plat­forms, the teacher was seen at­tempt­ing to break up the fight and then shield­ing one of the girls be­hind him, in­cur­ring blows in the process.

How­ev­er, TTUTA told Guardian Me­dia that while it is pleased the teacher in­ter­vened, it wants its male teach­ers to be care­ful when get­ting in­volved in fights in­volv­ing fe­male stu­dents.