Bruises, breaks, fractures; all the things that I had seen happen one day in my school. I lived in a good area with a loving mother and a well-funded school, you would think that my High school would be a calm place to learn and grow safely. Sadly, this is untrue, on the first three days of my freshman year there were at least two fights a day. I could not understand, at the time what could have change so much in those I cared about. It could not have been just puberty, because it doesn't change you into a completely different person, and these classmates were displaying behaviors completely different to who they were. As I look back I can see a reason for this increase in violence; they were at an age where it was an acceptable for them to
