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Speaker 1: Now tanguet Or College in South Auckland is telling students

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Speaker 1: to cover up their uniforms in public. There has been

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Speaker 1: a spate of brawls between young people in the Manekow area.

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Speaker 1: One was caught on video involving about fifteen kids. One

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Speaker 1: student was getting his head kicked in while he lay

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Speaker 1: on the ground. Tanguaed Or College principal Chris beIN is

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Speaker 1: with us. Now, hey, Chris, are you ellen? This is

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Speaker 1: a sad day, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's disappointing to be in this position.

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Speaker 1: Use Okay, are you doing this because you're worried about

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Speaker 1: the reputation of the school? Are you worried about the safety.

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Speaker 2: Of the kids? Now? I just like the stress. It's

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Speaker 2: the safety of the students, of our students traveling through

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Speaker 2: that area, and I just wanted to be sure that

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Speaker 2: they could move through from home to school and vice

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Speaker 2: versa in a safe way.

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Speaker 1: Okay, that brawl where the kid was having his head

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Speaker 1: kicked in? Did that involve your students?

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Speaker 2: Unfortunately it did.

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Speaker 1: You was your student the one lying on the ground

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Speaker 1: getting kicked or the ones doing the kicking?

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Speaker 2: No, our ones that we've been able to identify are involved.

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Speaker 2: In the assault.

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Speaker 1: Your students are the ones doing the assault.

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Speaker 2: From what we can identify from that footage.

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Speaker 1: Yes, okay, So are your students really the ones who

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Speaker 1: are in danger?

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Speaker 2: Hair, it's more so the ones who are in our

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Speaker 2: uniform and if they travel from like I said, at

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Speaker 2: home to school and pos versa, that there could be

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Speaker 2: repercussions for them just because they're in our uniform.

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Speaker 1: Oh okay, So are you worried that because some of

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Speaker 1: your students allegedly were the ones kicking the head in

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Speaker 1: of the kid, other students may now target students from

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Speaker 1: your school as like a kind of revenge.

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Speaker 2: It could be an unfortunate side of all of us

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Speaker 2: taking place.

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Speaker 1: Yess, what is going on here? Is this? And is

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Speaker 1: this something that underpins this? Is like an event that

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Speaker 1: started this?

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Speaker 2: Look, I'm not sure on my south. It's caught me

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Speaker 2: unaware and I was only highlighted with what took place

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Speaker 2: last Wednesday in school. Do not know why this is

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Speaker 2: taking place?

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Speaker 1: Have you spoken to the kids who are involved in

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Speaker 1: this sprawl?

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Speaker 2: We have reached out to them and tried to get

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Speaker 2: information about their participation took place. So it's really at

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Speaker 2: that stage.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Well, when you say reached out. Are they not

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Speaker 1: at school at the moment.

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Speaker 2: No, No, We've asked them to remain at home where

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Speaker 2: we take statements and work our way through everything, go

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Speaker 2: through our procedures.

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Speaker 1: What's the final part? What is a likely punishment here?

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Speaker 2: Depending on what we find with what took place, it

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Speaker 2: will be up to our discipline committee of the board,

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Speaker 2: and then I'll make a decision from that.

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Speaker 1: Okay, are the police involved?

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Speaker 2: Are we've involved the police? Yes?

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Speaker 1: Are the police taking statements?

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Speaker 2: I'm sure you'd have to, but they're being very positive

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Speaker 2: with my correspondents with him.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they would have to know, Chris that these

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Speaker 1: kids were kicking a kid in the head. That's assault.

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Speaker 2: Like us, they'll be following through on what we know

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Speaker 2: and what they know and hopefully get the right information.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, alrighty I suppose, yeah, that's everything. I mean,

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Speaker 1: what else can you say, Chris, what a terrible situation.

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Speaker 1: I look after yourself and thank you. There's Chris beIN

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Speaker 1: Tungue at or College. Principle. Jay was more from Hither

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