I have to ask, where was the H.S. principal? By policy, we had an administrator present at EVERY SINGLE athletic event.
+1. However, I wouldn't be surprised if the principal was taking care of
some other problem such as the usual alcohol/pot smoking in the school
parking lot. My dad was a principal/Vp in a couple different schools and
he confiscated so much paraphenalia and drugs, you'd think he was
in the DEA.
My point is, I am not a police officer and I don't play one on TV. I tell the students day one, “If you get into an assault, the police will arrest you and sort it out. I have a Ph.D. in education, not law enforcement!”
My dad broke up quite a few fights --one was by breaking a kid's hand. Now,
before you go crying "child abuse" the high school kid broke his own hand
when he punched my dad in the forehead. The kid is on the floor writhing in
pain and my dad says something like "Had enough now? Let's go to the
office." LOL, he didn't have a problem from *anyone* the rest of the year.
My dad didn't have any military or law enforcement training --just a short
stint of on-the-job-training during the Detroit riots.......that is for a
different story, though.
Ah, then there was the other principal I knew who kept his CCW weapon
at school.......this was a LONG time before Beslan!