For the normal students, one waffle paddle board and the willingness to use it on the three worst offenders would solve most of the issues. Moving special needs students to their own prison within the school would solve the rest.
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Not anymore. Recently a teacher was violently assaulted by a student’s mother after she left the school because she had taken the girl’s phone away during class. Nut cases.
Nope. Not even close.
The real problem is that you can't expel anyone.
I was in the Harrisburg school system through junior high, in 1967. At that time, teachers still routinely used waffle paddles on the worst offenders. Before Thanksgiving break my homeroom teacher was stabbed multiple times at a football game. His best friend, my English teacher, told me years later that he kept a revolver locked in his desk. In the spring, a ninth grader went into a Home-Ec class and shot his girlfriend dead. The junior high was three stories high, and shaped like an "L". There were three armed security guards on every floor. On the day after Martin Luther King was murdered the following year, several hundred students from the junior high and high school next door tore down two luncheonettes across the street from the schools, then proceeded to torch the shopping center nearby.
Harrisburg was a shiitehole 50 years ago. It surely hasn't improved.