BEEF. There seems to be so much of it in our school buildings, but why? No one ever seems to know, most of the time people do it because they think it will make them look tough or cool. Some people were even taught that fighting or arguing with someone is a way to gain respect from others. The media seems to believe that the violence stems from the streets, and that is a possibility, but most of it isn’t happening in the streets. It’s happening in the schools. Most of the violence and the fighting is coming from our girls of the school. Rarely anymore do you hear of boys fighting or arguing in school. Being a female senior at Timken, I see and hear more and more things about girls saying that they are going to fight someone or they are going to dog someone (try to embarrass someone or yell at them). At Timken it seems as though everyone dislikes the same girl, or if someone in a crew of girls dislikes someone, the whole crew has to also, but why? It’s all over little petty situations or a girl getting mad over a boy and it’s childish. We're in high school now and we should be focusing on our school work, trying to get the best education that we possibly can. Our high school years can make or break our future, so we should focus more on our education. It’s time for us to grow up now and become young adults. We should set an example for the incoming freshman that lets them know that you are in high school now and we left all that fighting in middle school. It is time to get on your grown man status or your grown woman status. We should all take a minute to think - is fighting and arguing really worth me not getting a good education? Well is it?