I agree...and I've been teaching long enough to where I feel responsible for every child not just mine.

I would have broken up the fight.

I had a similar experience last year where some middle-schoolers were fighting on a side street. I leaned on my horn to get their attention, got out of the car and that was enough to send them scurrying away.

rabbit

i would have done what lilith did. espescially if the kids looked tuff. i know this will soung craggy but kids can be crazy obnoxious these days. i've seen teens i wouldn't want to cross in a dark alley and i wouldnt be willing to provoke them or direct their anger at me or my kid. i would have stayed close to my car just in case they came after me, but still tried to break it up.

I,definately,do NOT believe in not getting involved.I have interfered in such a thing before,only it was alot more than two on one.I was 17 when I graduated.In growth,I didn't catch up with the other boys,until I was about 15.If someone,had a bad day,it was-Let's kick Irishs ass,he's smaller.I know what that one kid feels like.On the other hand,it also gave me my never give up
attitude.I also told my daughters,when they were kids,not to take any CRAP from anyone & to stick up for each other. Irish
P.S.It also gave me,my motto!
"A quitter never wins & a winner never quits!"

I knew Lil broke that shit up!

I walk my dog a lot in the 'hood and one day saw a young punk going near an elderly lady. I was all over that kid like white on rice.

You see it happening, you know it's wrong, you're able to stop it, you do.

i'd have tryed to stop the fight and call the cops right then. usually talking doesn't hellp with those "violence-solves-any-problem-kids". but they usually grab their feet, when they see someone comes to help their victim.

You stop the fight, however you're able. Yeah, it may happen tomorrow, or a block over. It may be that the roof kid was getting thrashed for beating the hell out of one of those boys the day before. Doesn't matter, you don't have the back story, and you're not a judge anyway. You've got kids fighting, and you stop it the one time you can. I know it's not an original thought, but I can't help feeling that a lot of societie's ills come from us acting a lot less and blaming a lot more. So when you see something, you step up.

Because I wound up in a lot of fights for the first few years of school, before I got a rep as a tough little shit not to be messed with, and my parents never ever knew.....I'd go knock on the door where you saw roof kid perched, or at least put a note through it. Sounds crazy, but parents aren't ALWAYS the most observant creatures.

G

I'd have broken it up and given those kids a serious talking to if they'd stood still long enough to listen. I'd have expected some idle threats and verbal abuse as they ran like hell. Typical today teens but I'd have had to stop the fight and see if I couldn't scare a little change of heart into them. Oddly enough I just broke up a fight between two brothers. I've helped raise these two and it surprised me they started up but the eldest had been in the beer a little too deep and was 10 feet tall and bulletproof. It's funny how quickly he relented when he made his best lunge to get past me and ran into me full force without so much as moving me an inch. He seemed to rethink his position on matters at that point. I'm only 4 inches taller and outweigh him by 80 pounds. LOL

Thank goodness all the children at the school I work in are under 12yrs old. But I have worked at the high school and had to step in to break up fights. It's nice that most of the kids in town know me and all it takes is a stern look for them to back down.