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Aren't fistfights between eight-year-olds common everywhere? It's the fistfights between 16-year-olds that indicate an area has problems.

• geebee 18y ago
  Could be. They're definitely less dangerous than they become later in life. I really don't know how it was elsewhere. It irritates me when people think they know me better than I do, and I don't want to be guilty of acting that way toward someone else. When I transferred to private school in sixth grade, fights essentially vanished. Believe it or not, there was never a single fistfight in my high school.
  • nostrademons 18y ago
    There were fistfights up through 8th grade in my suburban Boston school. I transferred schools at that point, so I don't know if they continued, but given that one of the guys who used to beat me up was arrested for assault and battery with a caribeaner, I'd guess so. My suburb's been gentrifying along with the rest of the Boston area, though. When I was in school, there was still a sizable working-class population here, and I considered $400K to be a really expensive house. Now you can't find housing here for less than half a million, and the house around the block just sold for $1.2M. It's changed the character of the neighborhood a lot.