The Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion has launched a full in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to a vi­o­lent al­ter­ca­tion be­tween a stu­dent and a teacher at the Ari­ma North Sec­ondary School af­ter a video of the in­ci­dent cir­cu­lat­ed on so­cial me­dia.

In a state­ment on Wednes­day, the Min­istry ex­pressed “deep con­cern” over the be­hav­iour cap­tured in the footage, stress­ing that such ac­tions un­der­mine the val­ues of re­spect, dis­ci­pline, and re­spon­si­bil­i­ty that schools are meant to up­hold.

Of­fi­cials con­firmed that ap­pro­pri­ate dis­ci­pli­nary mea­sures will be tak­en against all those found re­spon­si­ble, in ac­cor­dance with the Ed­u­ca­tion Act, Min­istry pol­i­cy, and na­tion­al laws.