US pupils 'made to fight in cage'
13 April 2012
An American school has been hit by allegations that staff made pupils settle their differences by bare-knuckle fights in a steel cage.
The principal of South Oak Cliff High, Dallas, knew about the cage fights and did not stop them, a report by school investigators said.
The report describes two fights in an equipment cage in a boys' locker room between 2003 and 2005. It also states that a parent, Angela Williamson, was ignored when she complained after her son, Cortland, told her of being made to fight as pupils clapped and screamed.
A teacher told the report that principal Donald Moten ordered staff to put two fighting pupils "in the cage and let 'em duke it out".
