3 Montfort Secondary students involved in classroom fight to be punished: MOE

All three Secondary 1 students involved in the fighting incident in Montfort Secondary School will be punished, and that will include caning, detention and suspension.

- Aqil Hamzah

On March 3, the Ministry of Education (MOE), in response to media queries, said the students have been counselled, and the school will work with their parents to provide them with the necessary support.

The incident, which surfaced online on Feb 22 after a video was posted on social media, arose from a classroom fight, said MOE, without providing details on when it took place.

In the video clip, a group of boys can be seen trailing after another boy who is carrying a school bag, before they trip and kick him when he is down. The boy gets up, falls again after being tripped, and he gets kicked again. The clip was widely circulated online, and there were claims that the video was an instance of bullying.