Breaking Up Fights
At a couple schools, we (the staff) learned how to break up Fights. This is what you do: you need 4-5 people ready. Two people approach from opposite sides (assuming only 2 students are fighting). You grab their hips, and turn/walk them away from the fight, not pushing them but guiding them a distance.
Other schools said (different schools of training for special ed), We don’t break up fights unless it’s clearly unequal or child is getting jumped, so to speak. If it’s any type of natural CONSEQUENCES situation, or a matter of individualising a gender-coded pecking order, (among only males or female cliques/groups), let them fight.
Otherwise they’re going to bicker about it and disrupt everything with their anxiety, which isn’t fair to other people
Let them do it. If you break up a fight, usually, without the procedure I described, you end up restraining one of them Which makes the other student free to attack you both Which means you helped one of them get those extra licks And now they both hate you, and they turn against you Then you let go, having not helped the situation, and not safe And the video camera doesn’t show entire thing, no sound And so you look bad, and now you’re fired. Don’t break up fights on your own. Most likely, Unless like I said it was bullying or gang shit, the instigator Wants that pain. They begged for it, didn’t they. You did everything you could to intervene and protect them But they kept talking and teasing, being miserable and sadistic And too fucking stupid to ever stop on their own, So let their peers make them stop. Stop protecting them.