11th February 2004, 12:16 PM
I, too, attend a magnet school and it's a huge improvement over the public schools in the area. I've heard it's only gotten worse at those schools; it seems like there's a stabbing of some sort every three or so months at one of those schools. Here, almost everyone shares the same interests and views as each other and so fights are uncommon. The principal rarely has to use her authority for anything, but the disciplinary rules are much stricter here than at other schools. (One reason I flocked here.) For those reasons, fights very seldom occur. In fact, the last real fight at this school was about two years ago, and even it wasn't that big a fight; just ended with a broken nose.