Have you ever been at school, minding your own business, chatting with your buddies, or sitting at a lunch table and eating your food? When all of the sudden, you hear curse words being shouted, and a huge group of students circle around two or more other students. After a few seconds of verbal argument one of them finally takes a swing, and a physical fight breaks out. You look around and see everyone taking out their phones, instigating and motivating one of the fighters. Some fights end by knockout, separation, or one of them decides to run away from the fight.

The consequences for fighting, according to the GBHS Student Handbook, can lead to In-School Suspension, Out-of -School Suspension, or the possibility of being expelled from school. On page 14 of the student handbook, under “Student Conflict” it clearly states “The school reserves the right to press charges on students involved in fights.” The principal, Mr. Friess says that most fights start by other people saying “she/he said this about you” and by the help of social media.

The aftermath of the fight, is that the ones who were involved, get sent to the office to have a talk with the principals. Each student gets to tell their side of how how the fight started. Principals check cameras, ask other students and and try to find out how it all started so it won’t happen again.

What causes one to want to fight another student? Most fights start by bullying. Bullying is caused by hatred, to look cool or to become popular, and to make others feel better about themselves. So, there are two types of people that have their own way to deal with bullying. Some don’t do anything about it, and others actually do something about being bullied. But it’s the choices of how you decide to deal with it. You can tell a teacher, or some stupidly decide to deal with the bully themselves, which leads to fights.

Have you ever thought about how a single fight can make our school and student body look, bad. When students take out their phones, it’s straight to the camera app, after the fight is over, right away to Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, YouTube, etc. Some don’t realize that once it is out on the Internet, everyone in the world who has access to the Internet, can see it. Fights that happen in our school that are posted or uploaded to the Internet, make our school, and students look bad. Some students don’t care because they weren’t involved in the fight. But posting it on Facebook won’t make it any better or help at all.