Why are the girls at my school so vicious?

I live in a very poor area…so the only thing I can think of is the “culture of poverty”.

But they’re always looking to get into fights.
It’s literally like all of the girls at school. If you’re not good friends with them, and even if you just say their name, like not even talking bad, they have scouts that will tell them that you said their name and then they’ll come up to you in a group and confront you about why you said their name.

They’ll fight you over things said on Facebook, your friends will backstab you if you say something in a text, they’ll go to the girl you said something about and tell her and then she’ll wanna fight you.

And they’re bad fights too.

The last one I saw, a girl came up to her friend to ask why they weren’t friends anymore and the friend started going off on her and slammed her head into a locker.

And one girl got sued because she lured a girl into the bathroom and broke her arm.

I mean, I’m afraid to say their name or look at them the wrong way by accident…even outside of school. And if you don’t fight them, if you just apologize, they say you’re “scared” of them.

It’s not like a group of bullies. It’s every girl in my school.

The principal won’t do anything about it though. Like if they’re bothering you and you go to her, she won’t do anything until after they’ve beat you up and you’re in the hospital. Even then they won’t do anything but give them a week of ISS.

I’m worried about it, because one of my friends got called an impolite name by a girl I know today, and she wanted to know what her name was. So I told her and I said, “But don’t worry about it. She’s always starting crap with people.” And this girl sitting across from me just looked at me like I’m talking about the girl and she’s gonna go tell. I mean it was like a, “You shouldn’t have said that” kind of look.

I just wanna know why they’re like this…they want to act mature, but wouldn’t “mature” just be to ignore what people say about you and avoid fighting?