Rugby off, after student attack causes injuries and 147 arrests overnight

Violence begets violence, when one of your school mates gets injured badly you rev up your mates to go get pay back. Only way I can see out of this is forgiveness. Maybe heads of schools can work together to set up some kind of reconciliation program, like bringing some students together and encourage them to do stuff together, paint fences or play volleyball, anything. Things that bring them together rather than keep them apart. They don't need to be friends, as long as they learn to respect one another then that would be a step in the right direction.
If they need another way of expressing their school pride, have them learn to compete and keep it on the sports field, win or lose at least you have not wronged another person.

Koeha nai e lao 'oku puke 'aki 'a e toko 147 ko'eni 'a e Kolisi ko Tupou 'o fakahu ? Koeha 'a e fakamo'oni 'a e kau Polisi na'e fai 'e he toko 147 ko'eni meihe Kolisi ko Tupou ha hia ke puke ai kinautolu 'o fakahu? 'Oku ou tui na'e puke 'a e toko 147 ko'eni 'o fakahu koe'uhi ko'enau ako 'i he Kolisi ko Tupou, neongo na'e 'ikai ke nau fai 'enautolu ha hia ka na'e 'iai pe honau sino. He 'ikai ke lava ke hanga 'eha tokotolu mei Vaini 'o ta ha motu'a Veitomgo pea tu'u atu pe kau polisi 'o puke kotoa mai 'a Vaini 'o fakahu he pilisone. Ka fai ha laka fakahaha 'i 'Amelika ni ko e fa'ahinga pe 'oku nau maumau'i 'a e lao 'e puke 'e he kau Polisi 'o fakahu. He 'ikai puke noa'ia ai 'a e fa'ahinga kehe ia neongo 'oku 'i ai honau sino, pea 'oku 'ikai ke nau fai 'enautolu ha hia. 'Oku ou tui ko hono puke ko'eni 'a e toko 147 fanau ako Kolisi ko Tupou 'o fakahu he pilisone 'oku fakavalevale, ta'efakalao, pea mo lau lanu (discrimination). Ko e ngaue 'a e kau polisi ko e feinga ke ta'ofi 'a e fai hia, ka 'oku 'ikai ko hono faka'ai'ai ke toe lahi ange. SAIA

High school principals of a high schools in Tonga...I'd pull all my tutors/teachers under one roof assigned each of them to a rugby grade ... then give them specific directions and make it perfectly clear to them that in the event of any fights involving his team...he will be held responsible...and will face severe disciplinary action...including being terminated from his position at the school...then pull all the students under one roof and make it perfectly clear to them...that if found that they were involved in any fights, even after school it will be suspension and even expelled from school.

Get to the parents...PTA meeting or send a letter home informing them of the policy and your intention to enforce.

Pull together your senior rugby team ... give them strict code of conduct to be a member of the team and to remain as member of the team ...such as academic requirement, dress codes, community involvement, curfews, and many more...

Make academic a priority ... a student must at least carry a C average or better to participate in any school athletic program...during my days at Tonga High School ... priority was academic...everything else was part of a support system ... and any of these support function could have been cancelled if it will take students away from the classroom...I remember at form 6, early morning training was cancelled because we were falling asleep in class...it was not unusual for some of the best athlete from Tonga High ended up in another high school because he or she did not pass Tonga High School academic requirements...and habitual rule breaking...From 1967 to 1974...there were 2 fights that I can remember at Tonga High...one of which was mine...and I lost that one...I live with the regrets that I was the first student to be expelled from playing inter high school rugby for life in my senior year...I could have been a good rugby player...I think...the point here is...there was a system in place at least at Tonga High during our time to encourage being a good honorable student...

Our pride was the most student to pass NZ School Cert or UE...everything else is icing on the cake...THS class of 1962 claimed the all around championship in rugby and Sport in 1969...even though we failed in 1974...but I live with the honor of passing UE...

To parents...if your son or daughter is 19 or over and still in high school ... something is terribly wrong...at 20 and 21 ... kids are graduating from universities here in the US ... making thousands of dollars in the work place ... helping out their parents, family and community ... I understand ... that in Tonga ... at 20 and even 21...students are still playing rugby in high school ...

At the village level...where are the Nobles...here in American Samoa ... students who are involved in school fights are reported to the village Matai's...there is village discipline...the worst case scenario is ... if families cannot control their kids from causing trouble...the whole family is ordered to leave the village and never to return...I am not suggesting such severe actions...but the Nobles can be of great help ... make those who are colleting a paycheck from the Parliament and from their estates responsible...

Hold the leaders responsible...