Girl Versus Girl Fighting Is Up at the Chicago Public Schools

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

After a sharp spike upward last school year, incidents of assault and fighting by girls are up again this year in the Chicago Public Schools.

Fights involving girls are up 31 percent; assaults are up 18 percent, and battery is up 15 percent.

So far this school year, 529 girls have been written up for fighting in incident reports to the district's bureau of safety and security, 255 were reported for battery and 67 for assault.

Remember this is what Mayor Daley's school chief calls:a national model for urban education.