Crete Monee Considered a Fight Club?

Is Crete Monee High School really the fight club? Despite recent coverage about people outside the school talking about the uproar of fights around the school among students, let’s go into the halls and ask other students what they think about these fights. “People like to talk smack a lot. I think that’s the only reason why, people just like to talk smack a lot.’ Said Melissa Sanchez, a junior, about what may cause the fights to erupt around the halls, classrooms, and gym. While not many students have actually participated in these fights, a good majority of the students attending Crete Monee have witness at least one physical altercation. Many see it as a form of entertainment from the studies they are focusing on during the school day, some even going as far to even record the fights to remember them and to show them to their friends or post them on social media. When asked about if it represents the school of Crete Monee in a negative light, students were torn between yes and no. “Definitely. No one wants to come to a school where they see a lot of fights, then you get it into your head Are they going to fight me? It also puts a bad light on the students since we’re supposed to be learning than you they’re fighting; the students must be uneducated.” Briana Henderson, a junior, recalled. “It’s not like the whole school...it’s just little portions who fight. It’s not like it happens constantly.” Sanchez commented. When it came to the topic of the media getting involved to give their opinion on our school, teachers feel disappointed. “It makes me feel like, I want students to be as proud to go here as I am to work here and so it breaks my heart when I see us on the news for negative things

because these are really great kids and you can’t tell by what’s portrayed on the media.” Melanie Duffy, a reading teacher at Crete Monee spoke. Duffy also admitted to having to break up fights before between two students, one female and one male. When asked about how many physical altercations she's seen while her years of working at Crete Monee, she could only think of three or four but said there were to many to count of how many have happened around the school all while she's been worker there. Most would assume the backlash from the media would want to shape the students to change there was, but most found it comical and thought it was funny. Some going as far to make fun of the new nickname on social media. One of the biggest questions among the school and the media alike wonder what could possibly be done for these fights. Teachers say that there needs to be better ways about solving their problems while students say they shouldn't give it attention so the fights wouldn't have so much adrenaline going into them. But sadly, some say that there are no ways to stopping the fights. “I don't think there's a way to prevent it, to be honest,” said Sanchez, “Most fights I've seen have been over things that have been said so honestly there's no way to prevent it, but other than that there's no way to be honest.”