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The Di­vi­sion of Ed­u­ca­tion, Re­search, and Tech­nol­o­gy has con­firmed that it has sus­pend­ed the stu­dent in­volved in the ag­gres­sive fight and sub­se­quent loss of con­trol at Scar­bor­ough RC School on Tues­day.

The sit­u­a­tion es­ca­lat­ed when the male stu­dent re­port­ed­ly be­came vi­o­lent, prompt­ing the prin­ci­pal to or­der a tem­po­rary lock­down. Teach­ers were in­struct­ed to se­cure their class­rooms while stu­dents re­mained in­side. Con­cerned par­ents were lat­er asked to col­lect their chil­dren, as school of­fi­cials ini­tial­ly re­ferred to the event on­ly as an "in­ci­dent."

On Wednes­day, class­es were dis­rupt­ed as teach­ers re­fused to re­turn to their class­rooms, cit­ing on­go­ing safe­ty con­cerns. Par­ents al­so de­mand­ed the stu­dent's re­moval, de­scrib­ing his be­hav­iour as dan­ger­ous. Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, the stu­dent had pre­vi­ous­ly ex­hib­it­ed ag­gres­sive and un­con­trol­lable be­hav­iour, lead­ing ed­u­ca­tors to raise con­cerns be­fore the lat­est in­ci­dent.