Well one thing for sure — parents need tosend their kids to school armed with poptarts and the knowledge of how to turn them into popguns.
Many years ago I heard a play by play from a race based school altercation, with the black student making a particularly bad choice of white student to bully.
In this case, he likely decided to pick on the white student because he was short and skinny and was a cowboy type, living and working on a ranch. The person who witnessed it corrected himself by saying, “short, and veins-in-the-arms wiry skinny”.
He then elaborated that he had four older brothers, all of whom were in the USMC, a family tradition, and that several of the Mexican hands on the ranch were skilled knife fighters, who had apparently taught him well.
In any event, the black student, with several of his peers decided they were going to abuse him. To do so, he drew a big, cheap switchblade. Bad idea.
The white student immediately took a very low to the ground fighting stance, and palmed a double edged boot knife. Panicking, the black student charged him and the white student deftly performed some impressive nose surgery. End of fight.
When it was later demanded of him, he turned over a cheap grocery store steak knife to the principal instead of his custom, balanced 440C stainless.