So... there was a fight at school today

First of all.... NO WORRIES!
Our school building houses 3 different schools. Ours resides on the top two floors of the building. Today, after a day where I gave out 3 detentions, 1 send out (kinda like in school suspension for the period) and about 19 warnings, I had the job of walking my homeroom down to the first floor to dismiss them for the day. I do this 3 days every week, so it's nothing new. However...
On the way down the stairs, I had one young man, who continues to challenge me, raise his hand as if to strike another student. I called him to the front and informed him that he would be going back upstairs with me to serve detention for the action. (This is the same student I sent out during my class). When we got to the door to the outside, he proceeded to leave me and go to the play yard. When I looked down to the yard, I noticed a fight and a group of about 40 students. none of the students were from our school.
I thought quickly and knew that my place was to protect my students from becoming involved. I corralled them to the sidewalk and attempted to get them to leave the school property thru the gated fence. Most stayed and wanted to watch the fight. I promised them that whoever stayed would be serving detention. Turns out that worked, and 90% of my students then left the area and I was able to maintain the walkway from the door to the sidewalk and get our students out of harms way. Another class was following us down the stairwell and I got them to leave also. Their teacher checked on the yard, and by this time other adults had arrived and the altercation was over and the students dispersed.
I felt good that I kept my cool, and wasn't really upset over all of this. It just was surprising. Many students from our school wanted to go and see... and they finally realized the excitement was over and left for home.

So... I've made it thru seeing my first fight. I've had a student sent out of my room... and I've played with lunch bags and cubes to demonstrate "unknown." I'll have to write about that another time.

I am still very encouraged by some of the work my students do. If I give them work, they do it and they are pretty good at it. I don't see many students who can't learn what I'm presenting to them.

Okay... I need to write a quiz. 2b + 4 anyone?