Interesting that this seems to be true cross-country.

My high school was very rough. (So were all my schools.) There were fights every day. I was in a large percentage of them. Bullying and hazing were extremely common. I was one of the main targets, but by no means the only one.

I fairly routinely got in 2-3 fights a day. And I mean real fights where one or both of us was bleeding at the end of it. That is not normal anywhere anymore. Nor should it be.