During the current 2025-2026 school year at MacDonald High School, students have not been in as many fights as compared to years prior; reasons as to why aren’t fully known.
Andre Robinson, one of the campus supervisors for MacDonald High School, and Junior, head of campus supervisors, both said that neither of them had really seen any fights happening on campus during the current school year.
To understand why fights aren’t happening, it’s important to know what started fights in the first place. Both Junior and Robinson said a big trigger for fighting was gossip, specifically through the use of social media. Robinson also said it’s because of the “things that tend to happen outside of school that end up leaking onto campus; unresolved issues”, like relationship problems, jealousy, he-said-she-said gossiping, and other drama.
Yet the question still stands: why have fights stopped?. Some ideas that came up were the implementation of YONDR pouches, the larger amount of staff on campus, and the fact that it’s the first year that has all four grades.
Regarding the YONDR policy, Junior specifically said, “without their phones they’re not able to share information as easily and fast as they typically would”. Without the ability to easily send messages, students aren’t able to make a time and place to meet up or egg each other on so much that it escalates to a fight. He also said fights don’t happen “because [students are] not able to record … which is a really hot topic … [because] everybody wants to record”. The issue of recording also feeds back into the loop of straight fights since it’s often used to stir up more drama and gossip, sort of like a positive feedback loop.
As the school has gotten bigger, it’s gained more staff to accommodate the amount of students. Both Junior and Robinson give credit to the staff and their efforts, but in slightly different ways.
Junior said it’s because “this is the first year where we have … a total of four supervisors”, implying that the amount of staff can do two things: catch fights before they happen or deter students away from the idea out of fear of getting caught. He also said “we create relationships with the kids to where, if there is an issue on campus, they are able to come to us, and a lot of the time we nip it in the bud”. Robinson added to this idea when he said they “never [let] things escalate into fighting”.
On the other hand, Robinson also commented on the staff, but he said it’s “from leadership and campus supervisors just really working together”, implying that their collective teamwork has prevented fights.
The answer to the question isn’t something that can be definitively said, but it can be assumed, and all of the information Robinson and Junior gave is seemingly solid theories. No matter what the answer really is, most people should be thankful for the change since it means less stress on everyone.
