But, my strategy is to try to get  them to hit me first. Cause then legally I can fight back. But I guess if people are in honours school they'd either back off or try the same thing.
False.
A private school will just suspend/expel you both, no matter who started it unless there is solid evidence that you did all you could to;
- Not fight at all and do no harm to the other person
- Run away and do no harm to the other person
They won't care if it's self defense or not.  If you fight, you're subject to being gone.  That's the rule in almost every private school.
If you started it, you're sure as stuff gonna get suspended/expelled.  If you're the victim, see above.  If its a decent private school anyway, the only people to start fights are the ones who don't deserve to be in there to begin with.  These two black kids fought in my school and they got their asses tossed out of the school within an hour.
I got into an all boys Catholic High School (Still Attending) It's extremely hard to maintain over a 3.5 in our school as about 70% of the students don't have higher than that. I personally would have about a 3.6 but I so far have gotten one certain teacher each year that manages to forget me over and give me a C or a C-. Biology is a bitch. 
Sounds like my school, almost 100%.  Except I got a B/B+ in honors bio last year and he was a cool teacher.