21 Teachers Share the Craziest Fights They Had to Break Up

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May 25, 2018 7:00 PM EDT

If being a teacher seems like it's too easy, check out what these people had to deal with.

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    Text - lafleurcynique 889 points 15 hours ago I used to teach high school in rural Georgia. I had to break up a fight between two girls and a heavily pregnant girl. I never taught these girls and it happened between classes in the hallway in front of my room. The pregnant girl was on the floor screaming and crying while one girl was kicking her in the head and one kicking her in the stomach. I grabbed each of them by their upper arms and hauled them away very hard. One fell back on her ass and t
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    Text - crhuble 7.8k points 17 hours ago edited 17 hours ago Actual Teacher here. It was after school and i was headed to the copy room. On the way is the cafeteria, which had been cleared of all the tables and was basically just one big empty area except for the huge mass of students that had developed I rushed into the massive crowd where two different circles had formed. It was literally like being at a metal concert with two mosh pits. At least 16 kids were fighting. When i broke through, one
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    Text - spookytus 186 points 14 hours ago My father worked at the Hickey School, the place where the Baltimore City Public School system sends any student that was deemed 'emotionally disturbed.' So he essentially taught permanent ISS to kids like Kenard. Performing restraints on fighting students dislocated his finger bone to the point of requiring pins (which meant he couldn't go swimming when we went down the ocean), and on another occasion he tore his rotator cuff. These days he teaches a muc
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    Text - PopeliusJones 6.8k points 18 hours ago edited 4 hours ago I had a student who fought a few times in my class, and was one of those "blind rage" type fighters who would just swing at anyone until he got back under control. He was manageable in my class but he was sent to homeschooling after a fight he got into in the hallways. Something stupid set him off, and he punched the other kid a few times before being restrained by one of the security guards...who he also punched in the face. Durin
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    Text - Delicate-Dynamite 6.3k points 15 hours ago edited 15 hours ago I've only broken up a few fights, and they were pretty mundane but if there is one thing I know is that girls fights are worse than boys. Girls will go for your eyes, but boys typically stick to an honor code, no hits below the belt and all that.
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    Text - HelpATeacherOutPLZ 8.2k points 16 hours ago I had two girls fighting in my classroom, it turned into a hair pulling contest and my skeleton; Dr.Cal C. Ian (life drawing class) wore one of their weaves for the rest of the school year
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    Text - mhol7597 3.6k points 16 hours ago I kicked one girl out of my room, thought it was done but the other girl followed her out, grabbed a handful of hair, yanked her head back and started punching her in the face over and over. Next thing I know they are both on the ground with both of them pulling each other's hair so I'm trying to pull them apart but it's like trying to pull a velcro strip apart with only one hand...finally the soccer coach comes around the corner so we pull them apart. Af
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    Text - Princeofcatpoop 1.7k points 15 hours ago Your mom jokes have phased out a bit, but nine years ago, they were still popular. One ED kid in my woodshop was over three hundred pounds and six foot two. In middle school. His mother had just overdosed and died that week. One your mom joke later and he was choking a kid while holding him over his head against a wall I got in the middle of that, and you're right, boys usually stop. He did, though he didn't come back to school. Too many attempts t
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    Text - awfulmcnofilter 4.9k points 17 hours ago I am not a teacher, but I have worked in k12 IT for 10 years, so I have been in a lot of classrooms. Teachers aren't supposed to break up fights and usually get hurt trying to do so. That being said, the worst fight I saw was in a science lab. I was in the back of the lab installing some software to go with a digital microscope and a large 8th grade girl was singing disrespectfully while the teacher was talking. Tiny 8th grade girl behind her was g
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    Text - rarrycoor 4.4k points 17 hours ago Girl fights are the worst. So. Much. Hair
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    Text - RoseTheChief 6.2k points 15 hours ago The worst fight I broke up wasn't because of students getting hurt, but because of how lame it was. First off, I teach middle school which is just one awkward moment after another. These two kids were arguing over a pencil because one kid supposedly broke the other kid's pencil. They were bickering back and forth like two old men and then they just broke out in really mediocre wrestling. It was embarrassing to watch because neither boy could even wres
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    Text - MagicJasoni 598 points 6 hours ago edited 5 hours ago I witnessed a similar incident in our high school. At the time, it wasn't very diverse, and had a lot of good ol boys. Well, one of our African American students (Joe) upset one of these guys during lunch We will call our country kid Billy. Billy pushed Joe in the chest, and Joe just stood there. They both stared each other down, and I think it suddenly registered on Billy that Joe was the the state wrestling champion. So, now he was s
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    Text - fd1Jeff 7.4k points 16 hours ago I taught adults at a vocational school, mostly from rough neighborhoods. We had been warned to never try to break up a fight, as many of these students carried knives and so forth Some woman had a bad falling out with her group of friends, and was sitting separated from them. They were talking back-and-forth, very loudly, very aggressively across the room. I couldn't control them, and went to get a supervisor. With me and the supervisor guy there, one of t
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    Text - casstantinople 1.5k points 16 hours ago My dad is a 5'6" Hispanic dude, gentlest person you can imagine. His first teaching job was at a rough high school. Two guys (both much bigger than him) got into it but security was nowhere to be found so he tackled them both in a bear hug so all they could do was stare at each other in rage while my dad waited for reinforcements
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    Text - symmphonic 15.5k points 18 hours ago My mom had two seventh graders using chair legs to fence each other
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    Text - expiredfruit 383 points 14 hours ago I'm not a teacher. But my highschool put a jukebox in our cafeteria one year and for a dollar you could play three songs. So these 3 girls put in like, 5 bucks and played 50 Cents' 'In Da Club' on repeat. After the 4th or so repeat of the same song, some girl had had enough and went to unplug the jukebox. The three girls literally jumped her right there, punches and hair flying everywhere. I'll give the the one girl credit, she was holding her own agai
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    Text - storgodt 827 points 11 hours ago My teacher told me a somewhat similar story. She was teaching English when suddenly one of her big students roars like a huge fucking grizzly bear, flips his desk and runs outside. Entire class is shocked and confused until they see him running outside. Two-three kids is bullying another kid... that's in a fucking wheel chair. Roaring grizzly kid runs over and beats the crap out of them. Like more or less leaving them lying down on the ground. She said she
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    Text - K_is_for_Kat 288 points 14 hours ago Im a school bus driver. My first year driving i got the "bad school". Kids living im houses with boarded up windows kind of neighbour i pickes up in. But i was the only ride these kids had and i loved them. A few small fights in the afternoon but nothing really bad all year till mid june. I pull up to my first stop and there's "tommy" on top of his sister "jane". Tommy was in grade 1. jane in grade 2. There older bother billy was yelling at them. I saw
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    Text - Bertrandthe Healer 5.4k points 17 hours ago My uncle was a teacher for many years and was once stabbed by a student with a fork while breaking up a fight in the cafeteria
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    Text - Justanothergamerwife 13.7k points 12 hours ago Substitute Teacher here: I was randomly assigned for the very last period of the day to a... difficult class. All of these kids were enormous. Like, maybe they were football kids? All I know is my petite self wasn't even shoulder level with these kids. So in a classroom full of enormous dudes, A few in the back kept picking on one kid in the front. The (seriously huge) kid stood up and charged at the (super big) kids in the back, who all stoo
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    Text - HeyHon 14.1k points 16 hours ago 1.edited 8 hours ago I teach 7th grade. I'm only 5'3 so most of the kids are bigger than me. A lot of the boys are really bigger than me. I'll break up boy fights, no problem, you can usually just step in the middle of those and yell really loud and they back off of each other. Girl fights I just walk away from and call for back- up, because girls are fucking crazy. They don't have the upper body strength to actually throw a punch so instead they kick and
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    Text - The boy who got stomped had a concussion and bleeding on the brain and was out of school for a few weeks. He came in to school to visit about a week after it happened and his whole face was black and blue. This was back in December and I still get sick thinking about it.
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