Try as hard as you like to turn back the clock to the good ole days, that is not reality today. If you want to fix what you see as a problem, dive it. You have a local PTA in your school district. Start there.
Or better yet, go to the local school board meeting, pull out a public speaker slip and then tell them you think kids should be allowed to carry a knife to school.
You advocate continuing to let the inmates run the asylum. Continuing to use 'schools' as warehouses for feral hominids is insane. Privatize the schools, expel the feral hominids, treat the students like the growing citizens of a free country that they are.
The PTA, nor the NEA, nor the School Board have any interest in doing these things. They derive their power from the current abominable situation.
Again, why are you placing your precious daughters in an institution with children who are likely to use a knife as a shiv?
I can’t fathom doing that to my kids. And, like I stated earlier, it was a tremendous risk for us to homeschool and it did end up costing my husband his job. We’d still do it all over again.