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That's horrifically fucked up. Children really do be out there causing misery for nothing, huh..
It is a lot in a sense that every number above zero is a lot, but really numbers aren't even comparable.
Overall, in UK from 2012 to 2022 there was reported 36k cases of violence in school. Meanwhile, in US 443,990 teenagers fell victim to school violence in 2022 alone
https://www.met.police.uk/cy-GB/foi-ai/metropolitan-police/d/september-2022/knife-crime-offences-schools-august2012-august2022
https://www.brightpathbh.com/school-violence-and-teen-mental-health-statistics/
The data in the links follows up on exactly that