Student’s Fight in School Toilet Caught on Film; School Has Responded

This headline is misleading, but rest assured it’s not click bait.

When you think of fighting, especially in a toilet, you probably picture something like this…

…if you’re the wrong species.

If you’re the right one, you’d picture something more like this:

Wrong location, but you get what we mean.

You’d assume it was heated, spontaneous and really dirty (in the sense that there are no rules, not the flinging poo sense).

Fight Club

Instead, what’s happening here is probably more along the lines of Fight Club, an underground group where the members meet up to spar.

(Although this one probably doesn’t have the deep philosophical motivations of the rejection of societal falsities and the rebelling against consumerism behind it.)

Take a look.

What Happened?

In the viral videos taken in a boys’ toilet in Tampines Secondary School students on 3 May, two boys were seen sparring in the boys’ toilet, with a line of spectators either perched on the ledge above the urinals or standing against the wall.

After one of them was determined to have won, the fight was stopped and the boys hug in a show of sportsmanship to the applause of the other boys.

It’s clear that this isn’t a fight that broke out because one of them looked at the other funny; it was intentional and regulated, and no one is meant to be in grievous hurt (and no one was).

Still, it probably isn’t exactly sanctioned by the school (and it wasn’t).

School’s Response

Firstly, Tampines Secondary School is the ones who confirmed that “the students involved in the incident were not injured.”

And indeed, as suspected from the videos, the spokesperson said: “We have investigated and found that there was no animosity between the students and it was a sparring session arranged for fun.”

“For fun”, they say. No, I’m not going to laugh, I’m impressed.

Most people’s version of fun isn’t as productive. And I have to respect the level of the initiative taken here, it’s like starting your own CCA, which not everybody cares enough to do.

The Students Will Be Taking Responsibility For The Incident

But of course, turning a school toilet into a secret fighting ring just reeks of something that can’t ever be something the school supports, as already mentioned.

And they say: “Nonetheless, we view this incident seriously and have counselled the students, who have expressed remorse for their actions. We are also working closely with the parents of these students to ensure that all students involved learn from the incident and take responsibility for their actions.”

After all, rule #1 of fight club…don’t talk about fight club. And I’m pretty sure leaking the video online isn’t encouraged either.