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Angela Williamson said she can't forget the image of her son's swollen hand after he participated in a cage fight at South Oak Cliff High School. She said her son told her that students stood around clapping and screaming while watching the fight, as if they were in an arena. Williamson took her son out of South Oak Cliff shortly after that day in 2004 and moved to Cedar Hill. "I said enough is enough, and we just left," she said. "This was the norm. My son said this is what they do – let them fight in 'the cage.'...

Staff at a high school in the US state of Texas had students settle their differences by fighting inside a steel cage, a local newspaper has reported. The Dallas Morning News says it has obtained a school board report that says two "cage fights" took place at South Oak Cliff High between 2003-2005. The 2008 report says the principal and other employees knew of the practice. No criminal charges were ever filed, and the principal at the time has denied any fights took place. Donald Moten, who retired as principal last year, told the Morning News: "That's barbaric... It never...