I don't know where you live, but where I'm from, a riot at a high school that required armed police response would be all over the news. Can you point me to any coverage of the "riots" you responded to?
It made the Cleveland, Oh. news. All of the networks were here, even had a helicopter overhead.
A teacher was telling the kids not to listen to us. He has since gone to prison for smoking pot with teenage girls and having sexual relations with them.
I'll see if I can dig it up for you.
Most of the other riots I've been too at the schools involved after school football and basketball games.
Same thing happened, someone posted a little bit of information and the knees started jerking.
I got a good laugh out of the thread though, brought back some memories.