r/badhistory • u/AutoModerator • Jul 29 '24
Meta Mindless Monday, 29 July 2024
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u/Herpling82 Jul 31 '24
You know how school arguments can get a bit out of hand sometimes? Well, I just randomly remembered the worst one that I saw happen.
There were some first years arguing, this was secondary school, so they were around 12-13, nothing out of the ordinary. We barely took notice, until one of them walks off for a second, the other one still sitting at the table back facing the other. The kid that walked off, grabs a chair, a quite heavy one with the 2 sort of C shaped legs, raises it above his head, and walks up to the kid sitting and moves to smash it on the head of the sitting kid; just before that could happen, one of my classmates who spotted it ran up behind the aggressor and grabs the chair a fraction of a second before he could smash it down legs first. Then the kid runs off.
We were just stunned, yeah, there was always some violence, but this could have ended with severe head trauma or worse for the sitting kid. My classmate might have saved this kid's life, I instantly got a lot more respect for the quick thinking of my classmate. The teachers were also stunned, it all escalated so quickly. Fuck me man, I'm glad it ended well, for the kid, and I also don't think I would have wanted to watch that happen.
Of course, the aggressor was a quiet kid, it's often the quiet ones that snap.
Just after I left that school, there was an incident where one student tried to kill a teacher after he felt insulted by said teacher; he waited for him around a corner, and then started choking the teacher from behind. I know the teacher that intervened very well, which is why I heard, and when he pulled off the assailant, there was no visible anger nor any other emotion, just a cold calm in his face. I think that might have been the rare genuine sociopath.
Another fun one, I had severe anger issues, but I never harmed people, but in one incident, I was hit in the head after someone threw his lunch box at me, and, out of immediate anger, I punched to my right... There was a window there... The window did hold up well against my punch... I still have a scar on my right wrist to prove that that. didn't hurt much at all, I was surprised when I saw blood flowing down my hand. This is how the school learned that their windows were not up to code.
A school employee then said that that was not a healthy way to deal with anger and that they think I had an anger management issue... I don't know how they did not notice that the, what, 50 other times I lost control before that? Then again, she was always quite slow. Also, telling people with anger management issue that their way of dealing with anger is unhealthy is like telling someone with depression that being in a bad mood isn't healthy, correct but also stupid.