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Violent student fight prompts B.C. school district to review processes

It took close to four hours to inform parents student was injured
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A Mission Secondary student suffered a concussion after a lunchtime fight, but went back to class for the afternoon.

Mission Public Schools superintendent Angus Wilson said they will be reviewing their procedures after it took almost four hours to inform a mother that her 15-year-old son had been injured in a fight.

The incident took place last Thursday (June 6) off school property during the lunch break.

According to Nicole Townsend, the injured studentsa国际传媒檚 mother, the school knew about the fight at about 12:45 p.m., but she never received a call until after 4 p.m. that day.

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Townsend took her son to the emergency room and called Mission RCMP to report the incident.

While at the hospital, somebody sent a video of the fight to the victimsa国际传媒檚 phone. It showed her son taking several punches and being kicked while on the ground.

Wilson said the principal of Mission Secondary School was aware of the incident that took place, but wasnsa国际传媒檛 aware of the sa国际传媒渟cale of the incident.sa国际传媒 He also said they investigated it right away.

While he could not get into details because of student privacy concerns, Wilson did say sa国际传媒渋f students disclose informationsa国际传媒 it would make the job much easier than if they are hard to get a hold of.

sa国际传媒淲e always review our processes to see how we can do them better. We also feel very upset when a violent incident occurs because thatsa国际传媒檚 not why any of us became educators,sa国际传媒 said Wilson.

Townsend said she feels the school failed her family by not contacting them immediately after they learned about the incident.

Wilson has met with Townsend and the mother of the other student in the fight. While no information will be released about the incident, Wilson did say they are interested in more than one student.

sa国际传媒淲hen there is an incident like this, there is genuinely more than just the two actual students involved. There are bystanders and you potentially have people who are fire starters that provoke a situation and you have people filming it.sa国际传媒

When the video of the fight first appeared on social media, Wilson said it created a frenzy of negative comments.

sa国际传媒淭here has been a lot of people bombarding that mom with stuff which is really unfortunate. People need to be aware that their activities donsa国际传媒檚a国际传媒檛 necessarily resolve the situation for all the young people involved.

sa国际传媒淲e need to move forward with whatsa国际传媒檚 going to happen for all these young people. Whatever consequences and all that. Everybody being a keyboard warrior is not really helpful,sa国际传媒 said Wilson.



Kevin Mills

About the Author: Kevin Mills

I have been a member of the media for the past 35 years and became editor of the Mission Record in February of 2015.
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