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A school official says about 30 girls were involved in a brawl Monday at a Hill District school after what was possibly a neighborhood dispute.University Prep students who were involved in the fight were sent home and are facing a range of charges based on their level of involvement, Pittsburgh Public Schools spokeswoman Ebony Pugh said.VIDEO: Watch Kelly Brennan's reportPugh said the fight began with four female students, then escalated.The school, which serves grades 6 through 12, was taken off lockdown after the students were removed from the grounds.“I just heard a lot of commotion,” said parent Charmaine Demus, who was speaking to her daughter by phone inside the school. “And then I heard the girl screaming. I mean, just screaming. I was like, 'Angel, try to calm her down.' There was no calming her down.”Pugh said the fight began around 9:45 a.m. She wasn't sure of the ages of those involved. She said injuries to students were mostly minor scratches and bruises. One student was taken to the hospital for an asthma attack.A security guard, a school police officer and a teacher all expressed concerns about injury, so they were sent to be checked out, Pugh said.She also said classes resumed as normal Monday after the altercation.Sources inside the school are saying that some teachers are "enraged" at school continuing as normal Monday. Sources said some teachers have concerns about their safety.Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers President, Nina Esposito said the school has just hired a fourth security guard. There is a guard on every floor of the school and roaming police officer do visit the school on an as needed basis.Esposito said the PFT's primary concern is that all teachers feel safe and happy in their environments."A major job of the union is to support our teachers and our paraprofessionals to make sure that every one of our schools is a place where parents want to send their students and where our people want to work, who want to go to work every morning and serve the students of Pittsburgh," Esposito said.Meanwhile, the Bloomfield-Garfield Corporation, a longtime neighborhood group is calling on government leaders to come up with an action plan to deal with the troubles in the school and to make sure the problems don't spill into the community.In an open letter to Mayor Bill Peduto, District Attorneny Stephen Zappala and Superintendent Linda Lane, the group writes, "We are fearful that the current learning environment is hindering children from succeeding in the classroom and will set them back for years to come. You are needed to bring a flood of support to Uprep to help stabilize the school."READ: The full letter from the Bloomfield-Garfield CorporationThe group suggests bringing new academic resources to the classrooms, additional counseling and security, and partnering more closely with Pittsburgh police to manage the school environment."We firmly believe that ongoing school disturbances will spill out into the neighborhoods, especially when young adults have more free time in the summer," the letter says.The letter asks for government leaders to respond by noon Tuesday with the action plan.Pittsburgh's Action News 4 spoke with a student involved in the incident and with her mother who is concerned about what she says is lack of sufficient discipline at the school."There was a whole bunch of fights, everybody was fighting. It was all females though," said Amina Morris, 14, a ninth-grader involved in the incident. "I was in the corner and they started hitting me and that's when my friends came." She said her attacker and her attacker's friends assaulted her before she began fighting back and that other fights in University Preparatory School at Pittsburgh Milliones were already underway.Morris' mother, Jascica Thrower, rushed to the school when another parent, not the school, alerted her that her daughter was attacked and in a fight."The one girl wanted to fight her and she got hit by one girl, then got hit by another and then she just got clobbered. All her friends came to aid her, Thower said.Both the daughter and mother say it's the biggest fight at the school so far, but not the first."This school, like these girls, they're fighters. You gotta fight, You gotta protect yourself in the school," Morris told Pittsburgh's Action News 4. "It's because they don't want to fight me one on one. This is a school that you gotta fight. You just gotta flight. It's been happening for a while. I've fought them before and they just keep going," Morris said.Her mother blames the school for not taking stronger action."They need a whole new administrative staff. They need teachers that are not scared of the kids. You can see it," Thower said. "When you come up here and report it, the first thing they want to say is, 'it's coming from home.' Well, what are you going to do about it? It's going to continue? You're going to allow it to be up here?"Thrower was upset that her daughter was handcuffed by authorities."She's been a victim, she's been taunted and harassed for the last three, four weeks," the mother said. "It's just horrible, but there's not being anything done at the school. and it's starting here. It's stemming from the school," said Thrower.Morris says she was handcuffed while she was being detained in a room at the school after the fight and that her requests for the school to call her mother were ignored."When she comes here she should be safe and get an education. She can't even come here and get an education and this is just sad. It's sad that it has to keep going to this, but they could have stopped this," Thrower said.Download the WTAE app for your phone or tablet, and stay updated with breaking news throughout the day. (Free in your app store.)Follow Pittsburgh's Action News 4 reporter Bob Mayo on Twitter for updates @BMayo_WTAE10925658