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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don’t worry, no precious adults got hurt. It took students to break up the stabbing. There is even video footage of it on X. A male student (with his backpack still on) is holding back the stabber while he still waves around the knife and is holding it. A child risked their own life to stop this. A child.

This is what we have become, as society, just walk away. Don’t say anything. Don’t do anything. Let the kids kill themselves and don’t intervene. The adults are not responsible. [/quote]

The child has (legal) protections that adult does not.
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Here you go: 2 students holding the kid back while he’s still holding the knife.

I mean, why ever help as an adult at all, just let the kids handle it. WTAF is wrong with you?

https://x.com/davidez1911/status/1915423557137404117?s=46&t=E8qDVnObwqD3VskYpcZ1Jg[/quote]

And?   What do you think this proves in the context of whether adult teachers should physically get involved in student fights?[/quote]

Should the adults in the building just sit back and watch as one student stabs another to death? Is this the Hunger Games?[/quote]

They should call for help--meaning physically go to the SRO's office, or the main office to alert the principal, and/or calling 911.
These are the adults that have the training and authority to intervene. 
A poster here is being very vocal that they know for a fact that the substitute was no longer present when the knife was out--how do we know where the substitute was at that time or what he was doing?  Is it possible that he was on his way to the SRO's office, principal's office, or a place where he could safely call 911?   Is it possible that he took the photo so authorities could later identify the students who were involved in the fight?   Seems logical to me.

No, the average teacher or another adult employee, should NOT physically intervene in a student fight.
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