Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath has warned that there are al­ready ex­ist­ing sys­tems in schools to deal with con­flict, and par­ents can face sanc­tions if they take mat­ters in­to their own hands.

He is­sued the warn­ing at yes­ter­day’s post-Cab­i­net me­dia con­fer­ence, where he was asked about the in­ci­dents of vi­o­lence that oc­curred dur­ing this week’s start of the new aca­d­e­m­ic year.

At the Ari­ma North Sec­ondary School, a stu­dent was seen fight­ing with a fe­male teacher, and out­side the El Do­ra­do East Sec­ondary School, where of­fi­cers are sta­tioned, a par­ent was caught on cam­era slap­ping a stu­dent whom he ac­cused of as­sault­ing his child.