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In my high school, the smallest boy on the football team was my best friend - 6" 1" and 185 lbs. Our center was the shortest guy at 5' 5" 230 lbs. Our middle line backer was 6' 6" 250 lbs solid muscle farm boy known as "Tree" (his last name was Birch)

While none of those boys were involved in the following fight, I did witness a fight at my school that sent 4 teachers and two police officers to the hospital along with the two boys. It was racially motivated and both boys were sent to state lockup for kids for attempted murder. I was later told that both boys had multiple broken bones.

The problem with the adults was that they individually tried to break up the fight and both boys turned on them. It was not until they ganged up on the boys and cops went in swinging their clubs at anything that moved.

In short, the size of some kids in school today would make the use of pepper spray and taser a prudent first response.