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As I said you are not going to find stats on restraints.  To answer another question a restraint hold could be applied by a teacher, two teachers, two teachers and a security guy, and so on.  In a big fight (and there are more fights than are reported) typically male staff members try to get to the main combatants and lead them away in a restraint so they are not injured and so they don't thrown anymore punches.

You have not seen a fight until you see one at lunch at a middle school or high school.  Kids run from all over just to watch and its an effort to break through the crowd to stop the fight.[/quote]

The duties of male middle-school teachers in Montgomery County include regularly (daily? weekly? monthly?) putting students in restraint holds? (What exactly is a "restraint hold"?)[/quote]

You won't find it in an job description (except in special ed) but its an expected duty.  A restraint hold is inserting the arms under the armpits of the student (teacher in back) so he cannot swing or lash out and can be led away.  If it goes to the ground, which it sometimes does, then you do your best.

I am not suggesting that any individual male teacher does this once a day, week, or a month.  He might go two years before getting it on but in some schools fights are routine and someone has to break them up.

I'll tell you this.  All principals lie when reporting fights.  All of them.[/quote]

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