On Wednesday at the very end of recess I witnessed a bit of a violent moment by one of the students.  It was indoor recess and my co-op was not in the room.  The kids were quiet and good the whole time but in the last 30 seconds one boy had a bad moment.  I saw him leap from his seat and lunge at another student with a pencil in his hand and grabbed the other boy’s shoulders.  I immediately stopped him and told him this was inappropriate behavior and not allowed, and that he owed me time after school.  If students are bad during school for whatever reason they can be kept for “respect time” with the teacher.  For the next hour the boy was furious with me.  Immediately after I told him to stay after school he sat at his desk, cried, then proceeded to get mad at me.  He had a individual pack of candy and began wringing it and staring at me, as if he was trying to rip my head off.   He growled, grunted, grinded his teeth at me, and mouthed “I hate you” and other phrases I caught here and there.  I went back and forth deciding what I should do at that point – look at him and prove to him that what he was doing wasn’t fazing me, or ignore him and not look at him at all.  I chose to ignore him.  What was done was done and he has had many problems hitting, kicking, shoving this boy that I have stopped before, so it was time he learned his lesson.  Meanwhile, as the child was visually distraught, another boy got upset because he didn’t understand why this child was in trouble.  That caused a whole other scene.  I didn’t have an opportunity to talk to my co-op until the kids went to Spanish, almost 2 hours later.  But, when I did, I told her what I saw, and the previous encounters I have witnessed, and that I obviously couldn’t just let this go and potentially have a student hurt.  She was very pleased with my actions, which was nice, and said that she would handle the situation after school. Hopefully he gets over it and doesn’t cause further problems because I punished him.