School Fights: A Disheartening Trend in San Diego

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February 8, 2012 • Megan Allison, Staff Reporter  
Filed under News, Top Stories

School fights have seemed to become the latest trend at high schools in San Diego. These fights are amongst both genders, and can be extremely dangerous and damaging, for this involved, to the students’ overall well-being.

According to the website, dosomething.org, in 2006-2007 school year, there were 1.7 million nonfatal crimes committed at school, ranging from assault to theft. 1in 12 teens in high school are injured or threatened with a weapon each year, 77% of students are bullied mentally, verbally, or physically, and about 8% of eighth graders stay at home at least once a month to avoid a bully. In the 2009-2010 school year, there were 11 deaths due to school violence, and young people who bully are more likely to smoke, drink alcohol, and get into fights.

A student, who wishes to stay anonymous, says, “I got in a fight at another school because a girl was talking bad about me behind my back. She never confronted me about it, she would just talk about me when I wasn’t there. My name was in a place it shouldn’t have been. I confronted her on the bus and we ended up getting in a fight. We both got suspended for two days.”

Another student, who wishes to remain anonymous, says, “There was this girl who tried adding me on Facebook, but I denied her. She started sending me mean messages threatening me. I didn’t even know who this girl was. My friends pointed her out at school one day, so I confronted her. We ended up getting in a fight. The police came but none of us got arrested. It was my first offense, so the officer let me go.”

School fights are not to be played with. People can get seriously injured if the stakes are high. Try to keep the peace if you can. If they can be prevented, try to prevent them. If someone is bothering you about something, go to the school office and try to sort things out; it may just be a misunderstanding. Violence is never the answer.

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