Class­es at Scar­bor­ough RC School were dis­rupt­ed on Wednes­day as teach­ers re­fused to re­turn to their class­rooms fol­low­ing an in­ci­dent in­volv­ing a nine-year-old stu­dent that left sev­er­al ed­u­ca­tors and stu­dents un­set­tled.

Guardian Me­dia un­der­stands that the sit­u­a­tion in­volved a male stu­dent who be­came phys­i­cal­ly ag­gres­sive and had to be re­strained. The prin­ci­pal re­spond­ed by plac­ing the school on a tem­po­rary lock­down, in­struct­ing all teach­ers to se­cure their class­rooms and en­sure stu­dents re­mained in­side. School of­fi­cials lat­er con­tact­ed par­ents and asked them to col­lect their chil­dren. Yes­ter­day's ac­tiv­i­ties were of­fi­cial­ly de­scribed on­ly as an "in­ci­dent."

Bradon Roberts, the To­ba­go pres­i­dent of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTUTA), con­firmed that teach­ers had pre­vi­ous­ly raised con­cerns about the same stu­dent, who they said had a his­to­ry of ag­gres­sive and dis­rup­tive be­hav­iour.

The Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent of Po­lice con­firmed to Guardian Me­dia that the in­ci­dent in­volved two chil­dren and said of­fi­cers brought the sit­u­a­tion un­der con­trol.

Some par­ents have ex­pressed con­cern about the safe­ty of stu­dents and staff. One par­ent, speak­ing on con­di­tion of anonymi­ty, de­scribed the stu­dent’s be­hav­iour as dan­ger­ous.

"The boy is crazy! He pick­ing up knife for chil­dren, break­ing bot­tle for the chil­dren to run on. He throw­ing down things. He's men­tal­ly un­sta­ble. He's like a rag­ing bull, jump­ing over the fence to get an ob­ject to go back in the school to dam­age school. That boy needs to leave that school," the par­ent said.

Ed­u­ca­tion of­fi­cials have not yet out­lined what steps they will take in re­sponse to the con­cerns raised by teach­ers and par­ents.