Anonymous wrote:I would’ve expected it to be the boys, but thinking about it more girls and boys at this age are different developmentally. Maybe the more aggressive tendencies in males (compared to females) come out later. I’d think that there would def be more boys than girls involved in fights at the high school level?

I have had kids at our high school going on 8 years now. And 5 years at the middle school.

In all those years, I recall only 1 fight between boys at the high school.

It was what I would consider a valiant fight. One of the cool kids had been relentlessly bullying and taunting a very geeky freshmen.

An upperclassmen intervened, and when the bully didn't stop the upperclassmen kicked his butt. No one was seriously hurt, just seriously embarrassed. It was the classic way to put a bully in his place and many were applauding the kid who got physical with the bully. Unfortunately, both kids were suspended. The one who stepped in should have received accolades in my opinion.

At our middle school, there were weekly fights last year, mostly between girls. Many were during school hours. Frequently they were after school.

I don't know why the girls seems to fight more than boys.

Girls seem to hold a grudge MUCH longer than boys. At least with boys, they beat each other up and then that's the end of that. Girls are sneaky and tell lies about each other, spread rumors and gossip. I'd rather deal with a boy fight and have it be over.

I would’ve expected it to be the boys, but thinking about it more girls and boys at this age are different developmentally. Maybe the more aggressive tendencies in males (compared to females) come out later. I’d think that there would def be more boys than girls involved in fights at the high school level?

Anonymous wrote:I graduated HS in 94 in a different part of the country. Every fight I remember was a girl fight. They were common in my high school and viscous.

In high school during the 80s


At least one girl fight a semester. They were always so viscious.

I recall a teacher mentioning that they would break up a boy fight without a second thought, but the girl fights were dangerous and always made them afraid to step in.

The boys seem to have "rules of engagement"

The girls were like animals in a cage fight (biting, scratching, hair pulling, poking eyes)

Anonymous wrote:Name the school

Not OP but when my kid was at Kilmer I saw 2-3 videos of girl fights. They would happen, someone took a video and then it would circulate. I don’t know how frequently they happen but he was only in person there a year because of Covid. I never saw them circulating a video of boys fighting. He was always shocked and showed them to DH and me.

We had a discussion every time about how these should be deleted and not forwarded if they were ever received by text.

I’m a MS teacher. It’s definitely common after school. Lots of girl fights between the students walking home.

Name the school

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I graduated HS in 94 in a different part of the country. Every fight I remember was a girl fight. They were common in my high school and viscous.

Viscous, huh? Lots of blood, LOL?

There were knives so yes, sometimes. We stayed away from fights because of stabbing a in those days.

Anonymous wrote:I graduated HS in 94 in a different part of the country. Every fight I remember was a girl fight. They were common in my high school and viscous.

Viscous, huh? Lots of blood, LOL?

Of the fights I heard about my from son, most were boys, but there was one girl on girl one that got a lot of attention.

I graduated HS in 94 in a different part of the country. Every fight I remember was a girl fight. They were common in my high school and viscous.

Witnessed my first girl vs girl fights in the hallways of Washington Irving “Junior High,” 1985, FCPS.

Anonymous wrote:DD is in 8th grade and I've been truly surprised at the number of physical altercations happening between girls at her MS over the last 2 years. Girl on girl violence makes up that vast majority of fights that I hear about from DD and the principal, rarely is it boys.

Is this common throughout FCPS? Yes, I'm old, but I don't recall any girls fights in MS and maybe only 1 in HS.

What the hell school is this?

When I was a freshman in HS, a girl stabbed another girl in the bathroom. Both white and at a then-UMC high school in FCPS.

Don’t recall similarly violent fights among boys. But they crashed a lot of cars.

DD is in 8th grade and I've been truly surprised at the number of physical altercations happening between girls at her MS over the last 2 years. Girl on girl violence makes up that vast majority of fights that I hear about from DD and the principal, rarely is it boys.

Is this common throughout FCPS? Yes, I'm old, but I don't recall any girls fights in MS and maybe only 1 in HS.