Education Minister Fayval Williams has alluded that the Ministry in collaboration with the Ministry of Justice will be devising a policy geared at curbing the tide of violence seen in the nation’s schools.

Minister Williams underscored that the proposed policy would take the form of training workshops that are aimed at preventing and reducing conflicts in educational institutions.

“The Ministry of Education and Youth and the Ministry of Justice, we have expanded our collaboration to provide training workshops aimed at preventing and reducing conflicts in educational institutions extending to homes and communities at large,” Williams explained.

“We are finalizing the protocols for when students fight in schools to take those students and their parents or the adults in their homes and get them through restorative justice sessions,” she added.

This announcement also follows two recent videos making rounds on Social Media involving students and other senior staff members engaging in intense brawls.

The first incident involved the Dean of discipline and some students from the Norman Manley High School in Maxfield St Andrew.

It is understood that the dean slapped the female student prompting her assailants to aid in her defense and return blows. The student has since been suspended and investigations are said to be ongoing.

In the second incident, the principal from Ocho Rios High was physically assaulted by a female student on the school’s compound on Thursday, February 2.

The circumstances which led to the bizarre brawl have not been made public, however, investigations are ongoing.