Just weeks into the school year, violence has erupted on Guam Department of Education campuses, raising concerns among parents and educators. Disturbing incidents caught on camera at Southern High and George Washington High Schools have been circulating on social media, highlighting the urgent need for improved safety measures within the school system.

Now, an 18-year-old student from the Santa Rita campus is facing serious charges. 

Guam Police confirmed Seniorita Sukion was arrested on suspicion of aggravated assault and child abuse. She is accused of allegedly punching, kicking and pulling the hair of another student.

Sukion allegedly admitted to the attack. It's unclear was motivated it. And there's no word yet if more arrests will be made. 

Following the school fights - GDOE Superintendent Kenneth Swanson told KUAM the department is taking action to discipline the students involved. 

Guam Education Board Vice Chair Maria Gutierrez also spoke on the matter. 

"He has to make the initiative to review with his management team, review that standard operating procedures of the violence in school, and then look at the board policy, and then bring it over to you know, submitted to the board," she said. "Then say, okay, i need to, you know, this is my recommendation for these policies to be the amended."

She admits stricter policies should be implemented to put a stop to the violence. 

"That's really where the superintendent and his management team start, you know, it's their responsibility," she said. "So when it comes to the board, then the board based on what they're recommending, we will, you know, sit meet with them and go over and say, okay, this is, is this what you want, because once we put in a policy, in order to be changed, they have to come back again to the board." 

Gutierrez said the recent attacks on campus remind her of a deadly incident that happened 16 years ago. Fifteen-year-old Jeromy Newby was assaulted at Southern High.

He spent two months in the hospital in a coma before he died in January 2007. 

"I sure don't want to see that again," Gutierrez said. "But again, it's you know, this is where they said, operational, they have to, he has a superintendent, look into that, because the thing is, this finding, you know, continues to happen, and we only as a board, we only know about it, when the when videos are, are forwarded to us or shared with us or in the media."

She adds peer mediation would benefit the students. 

In the meantime, Deputy Superintendent Erika Cruz said the policies are reviewed at the school level monthly.

"We have something called the positive behavior intervention support where we speak to students," she said. "We tell them what are the right behaviors or positive behaviors that they should have in the school level."

Cruz added majority of the students follow the rules allowing education leaders the benefit to focus more on those in need of counseling and additional guidance.