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Two students have been excluded from an Auckland school after clips of fights were posted on the internet.
Students from St Paul's College, in Ponsonby, were shown kicking and punching one another in organised scraps.
The videos appear to have been filmed with cellphones and were complete with a gangsta rap soundtrack.
On Tuesday last week, six students were suspended from the college until last night, when they appeared before the board of trustees, which had recommendations from the principal, Denys Marra.
Board spokesman Brother Richard Dunleavy told the Herald that two students were excluded from the Catholic school after investigations and interviews. Suspensions of the remaining four were lifted but conditions were imposed on each student, he said.
"They will be monitored and it will be made sure there won't be a repeat.
"The school will provide ongoing treatment to the students so they can grow though the experience."
It had also emerged this week that another six students were involved in the fights, Brother Richard said.
Two of those - including the producer of at least one of the videos - will appear before the board next Monday.
The other four have received the lesser punishment of being stood down - but not excluded - and would be dealt with by the principal.
Brother Richard was unsure of the ages of the students excluded but said that if they were under 16 - the legal school-leaving age - St Paul's would negotiate with other schools to give them "a second chance".
But if they were of the age that they could leave school, they were simply expelled.
He said the videos were out of character for St Paul's College.
"This is really an aberration. Last Friday night when they had a meeting of the parents, the head prefect gave a fine address in which he said, 'In the seven years I've been there I haven't seen anything like this myself'.
"There's a lot of disappointment and even shame attached to the fact that the image of the school has been dented in this way by the misuse of the internet."
