No it is more than that, one was Muslim, was was not. But still no clue as to what is actually taking place though. Teen violence has been around since there were teens.
NOT AT MY HIGH SCHOOL. WE HAD NO VIOLENCE.
Why do we tolerate violence in schools? It is not tolerated in the workplace - except in places like Oakland.
Parents wouldn't tolerate it at their work place. Why do they tolerate it where their children go to school?
In the old days, when a person went down, the fight was over. Now they keep kicking.
Indeed yes. Memorialized in mainstream films such as West Side Story, the Blackboard Jungle, and the Cross and the Switchblade.
Plus the films based on the popular novels of S.E. Hinton.
“Teen violence has been around since there were teens.”
You are 100% correct, however, when we were teens, the adults didn’t tolerate it.
There were fights at our (nice middle class, suburban, but with interesting “demographics”) schools from elementary school to high school, but nothing like what is seen today. Bullying or ganging up on a weaker kid was not looked kindly upon, and any boy hitting a girl would have been ostracized immediately.
It would usually be one boy “calling out” another boy to meet after classes were out. There were a couple of punches thrown, but once someone was down it was over & the air was cleared. The teachers/principals would be close by, because they knew what was going on, but let it play out.
Girls tended to just be catty and cut each other out of the popular “cliques” or spread gossip (which can still hurt pretty badly, TBH)
I do remember being shocked when one girl grabbed another girl by her ponytail and slammed her face-first into a locker. This was in Jr. High and everyone in the hall at the time stepped in to either help the hurt girl or restrain & calm down the slammer. It was a “you stole my boyfriend” incident, and we kids handled it without escalation or teacher involvement.
Nowadays I guess we’d all either gang up on one or the other girl or video it for Tik-tok with many “bleeped” words to accompany.
— We won’t talk about the time one of the bigger “gang” girls asked me to hide the knife she brought to school that day. It got me “admission” to the cool-Hispanic girls’ bathroom and “protection” points.
Since Cain and Abel.