i intervened in my first altercation on tuesday at the lovely jjaep...quite exciting. not really...but i did get the two boys separated before punches were thrown. here's the deal. i was walking a group back to class when a kid in the challenge class...which is a collection of the most poorly behaved students on campus...walked out and started posting up to one of the boys in my group. and to help me out another of my students started throwing gang signs at the rest of challenge class who hate this kid. how nice of him. anyway no blood was spilled. i was pretty proud of myself considering every other staff person in the area were not paying any attention. you'd think when a kid walks out of class without permission the adults supervising the class would notice...apparently not. but luckily nothing severe happened...and for that i'm very thankful. i don't get paid to break up fights. and i'm not about to jump in between two kids throwing punches...especially since most of these boys are way bigger than i am. i may know how to restrain them, but i'm not so dilluded as to think i could actually take one of those kids down without first hurting them and that would get me fired. so if they want to fight, fine. but they better be prepared to see it through because i will not be attempting to break that up. that's what campus police officers are for.