The brawl that led to arrests at a Cleveland school’s kindergarten graduation did not involve any students, according Roseann Canfora of the school district.

Speaking with the Associated Press, City Councilman Jeff Johnson said, "It is embarrassing that parents during a kindergarten promotion cannot control themselves, and what we tried to do was respond significantly."

Two teenage girls apparently began hitting each other at the Michael R. White Elementary School, because of a spilled punch. Their families joined and the fight involved adult and minors, according to Cleveland police Cmdr. Wayne Drummond.

"You had adults fighting adults, juvies fighting juvies, and so forth," Drummond told the Associated Press. "You just had a melee here."

According to Johnson, the spilled punch set off the fight, with one person pulling out a pipe and another a hammer, which led security officers to call police.

The councilman said, “Mouthing off, one thing leads to another and it spills out there.”

The fight erupted at 11 a.m. and then moved outside, but officers quickly arrived and restored order, said Drummond

At least 10 patrol cars went to the scene and eight people were arrested as a result of the kindergarten brawl, according to police.

The police commander said that no charges were immediately filed, but those arrested were being booked for aggravated rioting. By city practice, charges are filed only after prosecutors review a case.

“It makes me not want to send them for the rest of the school year,” Brianna Smith, one of the parents of the students at the school. She was alerted by a neighbor of the fight and went to the school to get her 7- and 12-year-old sons.

As soon as officers arrived at the scene, the school was put on lockdown and parents began arriving to take their children home.

Johnson said the quick police response was important amid increased concerns about school security.

This is not the first time a brawl occurred at a kindergarten graduation, which involved adults and led to an arrest.

In 2010, a Southern California school was forced into lockdown when two mothers got into an argument, which then quickly escalated into a full-blown fight, as the husbands got involved.

The two mothers who began the fight were arrested and the school principal had to cancel another graduation, according to the San Bernardino county sheriff’s deputy. The principal also banned parents from all of the school’s end of the year activities.