You are over thinking this. These are high school kids…
We used to fight/beef over literally EVERYTHING
99% of it was meaningless
The fights being meaningless didn't mean that random kids were getting punched, kicked or stomped. I agree we weren't fighting over life decisions or circumstances. But if you were getting punched, hit, kicked, pushed, you were in the shyt or into some shyt. You weren't just going to class, doing your homework, going to lunch and getting punched out of nowhere.