We had more fights on and off school property all through school than I could possibly enumerate. You learned not to back down or have your big brother intervene because if you didn't stand up for yourself or have somebody who could it would just cause more problems. However, as I said, it was so commonplace, I grew up thinking it was normal behavior. Every once in a while somebody would get suspended or expelled from school or end up in a juvenile detention center but nobody really thought much about it. Back then, kids generally didn't carry weapons so they were normally just fistfights and generally nobody got really hurt too bad.
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