2 posts tagged “food fight”

This fight was in November, and we had another this past Feb... Just so you can get some idea about what it looks like in there, even if the video is crappy :-)

I do patio duty outside of the cafeteria for the first 20 minutes of my lunch period.  Usually, it's just to make sure no ones having sex around the back of the school and to yell at kids for getting on the garbage cans, along with the occasional "Put that cell phone away or it's mine!"  Yesterday, all the kids inside the cafeteria come pouring out, and the kids on the patio want to know what's going on inside, so they start pushing their way in. 

Apparently, there was a fight, that turned into the beginnings of a food fight and everything went to hell in a handbasket.   I'm blocking the door, trying to keep kids outside, while ushering those still inside out.  Then, because when something like that happens they lower the metal blinds over the food windows,  I had to escort a girl out because she felt like it was okay to bang on that blind and cuss out the workers.  I handed her off to another teacher, went back in, pulled off one girl off of another, and watched this other girl (I found out later, she was the start of it all) still throwing punches, but the AP (Assistant Principal) had her around the waist pulling her back.  She started punching at him.  The thing is, though, she had her skirt up around her waist, and she was wearing a green thong, and when she went down to the floor, I was REALLY glad I was at the "head end" of things.  One of my fellow English teachers wasn't so lucky and let me tell you - did she get an eyeful (EWWW). 

Lunch ended early, and the announcement came on to tell everyone to go to 5th period.  So much for lunch.  My 5th period kids (maybe not great kids, but they're relatively well-behaved and I genuinely like them) were all rowdy because one student (I'll call her L) was at the table with Thong Girl when it all went down.  L is a (very) loud black girl, and was telling the story in full on Black English.  Apparently, another girl at the table told Thong Girl that she looked like a "fat ho" in that dress, so Thong Girl started taking off her jewellery and pushing for a fight.  She threw a punch, and then the baseball players (rich white kids) started throwing food, and all hell broke loose. 

One white boy in my class raised his hand, and said, "I didn't understand a word you just said.  Could you repeat it?"  I laughed and said, "Dude, and I thought I was white!"  The kids cracked up, but L code-switched like a champ, and in perfect Standard English retold the story.  Go figure.  Then she said, "Dayam (damn), it sound so boring like that!"

During 6th period, the kids were sending a text-message around the school about a riot that was going to be started in the centre courtyard, and they had gotten boxes of plastic forks from the cafeteria to attack the administration and cops with (we had cops crawling all over the building by that point).  Several of my 6th period students had gotten the text message, and got pulled out of my class to be questioned.  I hate to see it, but serves them right.  By that point, some kind of code got called out to the police force, and every off duty cop in the jurisdiction got called in.  Holy crap. 

This is the 4th food fight this year, and the kids seem to be getting worse.  My ghetto kids are starting to say this school is getting too ghetto even for them.  The way things are escalating, I think they may be right.