seYep. In HS, we met up in the parking lot. You either kicked someone’s ass or got your ass kicked. .
I understand where you’re coming from but......
What would you do if a jaw gets broken or a kid knocked out cold and you let it happen? A few years back in an upscale high school near here (New Braunfels?) a kid actually killed another one with a punch. A bad part is if it’s gang-related it’s often one person jumped by a group. When it’s girls they’ll sometimes rip out hair and earrings.
Funniest one was when a heavy-set mom and her teenage daughter came on campus right after school and jumped one of our students in the crowded parking lot. They all ended up on the ground. My part was to grab the mom’s wrists to keep her from ripping hair out.
Afterwards the mom seemed actually shocked that she was being handed right over to SAPD. The dad who drove them there in his pickup truck looked like an ex-con; wife-beater t-shirt, tatoos and all. He looked really embarrassed that his ol’ lady had talked him into this, knew better than to actually set foot on school property. He wasn’t charged with anything.
Not a daily occurrence, more like a once-in-several-years occurrence, but it happened
"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
