Students gang up on schoolmate, push him to ground and kick him: School has taken disciplinary actions
Update on Feb 24:
Montfort schoolboy's mum says he was 'strangled and beaten' before assault shown in viral video
Orginal article:
A group of of Montfort Secondary School students was caught on camera ganging up on a schoolmate, pushing him to the ground and kicking him.
Several Stompers alerted Stomp to the video posted on Facebook on Feb 22 and has since gone viral with more than a million views.
After the boy got up and walked away, the group followed him and a student pushed the boy to the ground again, causing him to lose a shoe.
He put his shoe back on, got up and walked away again as the video ends.
In response to a Stomp query, Montfort Secondary School vice-principal Wilson Tay said: "The school is aware of the incident.
"We take the safety and well-being of all our students seriously, and have taken appropriate disciplinary actions on the students involved. We have also counselled the affected students, and engaged their parents. The students have acknowledged that their behaviours were wrong and have expressed remorse.
"The school has zero tolerance for bullying and violence, and will continue to seek to provide a safe learning environment for all students."
Montfort Secondary School is located in Hougang.
Education Minister Chan Chun Sing said on Feb 4 that his ministry takes a serious view of any act of bullying or violence.
"No one should be bullied, no one wants to be bullied, and no one should bully," he said in Parliament, after an altercation between two Admiralty Secondary School students resulted in one of them being taken to hospital to treat a cut on his head.
Speaking in Parliament, Mr Chan said that parents should let schools and the authorities handle these cases without speculating or stepping in to complicate matters.
For every 1,000 students, there is an annual average of two incidents of bullying in primary schools, and six incidents in secondary school, he said.
