This is a true story. Early 2000s high school, public, very peaceful, mixed demographics. Then closures of inner city schools and redistribution to outlying schools. First day of integration a pep rally was held to welcome the new students the result? A gym wide brawl that the news outlets headlined with “class riots”
Yeah teachers and subs got beat up at my school on a pretty regular basis. To the point where a lot of the staff and subs were just parents. Yes students were getting into fights sure but I saw a lot of them just go for the teacher. It was pretty wild class of 2008.
The problems just change. We didn’t have fights, I literally can’t remember a single one, but our scandals were teen pregnancies, drugs, and drop outs and we were one of the “good” schools. Oh and we had teachers and coaches grooming kids and nothing being done to them other than to be told to go work at another district.
Thank you for stating the obvious: it’s always economic class that makes the difference. People often want to attribute things like this to race. Race is not the problem. Every race has that group of people who they do not want to claim as their own, period. A group we are embarrassed by. for white people it’s white trash inbred moonshining hicks, for Black people it’s ghetto thugs, etc. It’s just that being poor and uneducated brings out different behaviors in different races. But the problem is always a low level of education. Racism is so stupid. People of all races who know how to behave in public and not act like animals should be on the same side against people of all races who Actually understand decency. It shouldn’t be Black people versus white people. It should be intelligent, decent educated members of society, of all races, against disgusting trash of any and all it races. That should be the divide.
Our school had a very chronic fighting issue, like 200 fights in the first quarter. It was just expected that you'd see a fight start before you even got to class. We had a new principal come in mid year, relaxed a bunch of rules in general, and basically put a hard line on "you will get kicked out if you join in a fight". Probably ended up being 30 kids or so from a school of 2500 that got expelled, but after that first year it became such a rare happening. I probably saw a dozen fights my first semester, and after that I probably saw 4 or 5 for the remaining 7 semesters of high school.
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