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WOODLAWN, Maryland (AP) -- A brawl broke out during an anger management assembly at a suburban high school.Two people were arrested and 11 students were suspended after a shoving match escalated into a melee during Thursday's assembly.Authorities said a confrontation between a student's mother and a group of girls who had been bothering her daughter turned into a shouting match, and led to pushing and hitting, before the crowd of 750 students erupted into "chaos," said C. Anthony Thompson, principal of Woodlawn High School.The melee began as students on stage acted out peaceful ways to resolve conflict during the assembly...

Brawl breaks out in anger management assembly WOODLAWN, Md. (AP) — A brawl broke out during an anger management assembly at a suburban high school. Two people were arrested and 11 students were suspended after a shoving match escalated into a melee during Thursday's assembly. Authorities said a confrontation between a student's mother and a group of girls who had been bothering her daughter turned into a shouting match, and led to pushing and hitting, before the crowd of 750 students erupted into "chaos," said C. Anthony Thompson, principal of Woodlawn High School.

Two people are arrested in brawl, including parent; 11 students suspended By Julie Bykowicz Sun Staff Originally published April 2, 2004 Woodlawn High School ninth-graders who gathered yesterday for an assembly on anger management instead got an up-close lesson in violence, when a shoving match grew into a melee that led to two arrests - including one student's mother - and 11 suspensions. As students on stage acted out peaceful ways to resolve conflict, one student's mother confronted a group of girls who had been bothering her child, authorities said. Screaming quickly escalated into pushing and hitting, and school officials...