Killjoys everywhere. I remember one particularly nasty schoolmate was caught by a teacher slapping around a younger lad and he got teachers fist in the side of his head for his trouble.
Justifiable self defence of another one might argue, but these days the bleeding hearts would rather Walter the softie get beaten into a coma rather than a teacher physically intervene.
How this relates to extreme weather is anyone's guess, but I'm sure we'll think of a connection. Perhaps the extreme weather is making people soft?
I don;tknow about other schools - but the Secondary where I taught, the rules was to get between them if there was a fight and stop them no matter what
If it was boys
If it was girls it was different - girls fighting tended to have totally lost it and if you got between them they would not realise and would just attack whoever was in front of them
Also - when you got between boys you could put both hands out onto their chest and force them to stop
Only female teacher could so that with girls - we generally just shouted at them until they stopped
after that one was normally swearing and the other one crying
I was noticeable that when I started they were just starting to realise that just telling them that it is very naughty to hit other people
and they were starting to look for things to do to them that they didn;t like
boredom worked
hitting them was often pointless - it was over too quickly - a day writing in the isolation room was torture to them and generally stopped them
this was quite a few years - a lot of years - after schools were told to stop using corporal punishment - you would have thought they would have found an alternative first but there you go
before I started corporal punishment was not necessary - the kids were scared witless of "Mad Mike" - the head
but when I started he was off ill and had been for months - and he never made it back
