No matter how loud, obnoxious, irritating, annoying and downright rude our students can be at times, I don't think any of us can top this experience:
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LOS ANGELES — A high school was locked down Friday after hundreds of students fought in a lunchtime brawl that had to be quelled by police.
About 600 students were involved in what appeared to be a gang-related fight that started around noon at Locke High School, Los Angeles school district spokeswoman Nadia Gonzalez said. Four students were arrested.
Several students were injured but nobody was hospitalized, officials said. Music teacher Reggie Smith described to the Los Angeles Times a chaotic scene where it was difficult to distinguish between trouble makers and those trying to avoid the mayhem.
"The kids were crazy, running from place to place jumping on other kids," Smith said. "Some of my kids were crying because they were walking to class with kids and they got jumped. The officers on campus were overwhelmed."
The Times reported school officials separated Latino students from black students. Campus police were overwhelmed and called on the Los Angeles Police Department for help with security. About 50 Los Angeles police officers, some of them in riot gear, responded to the school. Gonzalez said students were kept in their classrooms and no parents or outsiders were allowed on campus.
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BTW - this school is about 12 miles from the high school I attended. Nothing exciting ever happened at my high school.
What's the worst student behavior you have encountered, and what kind of discipline did you mete out? 
I know it isn't much. I had a student intentionally break open a pen, and smear the ink all over several desks and chairs. Best I could think up in terms of discipline was to make him clean it up. He didn't do a very good job cleaning up. Fortunately, this M3 student did not re-enroll for the new term.