Try sending your kids to one. Very challenging situation made much worse if the kids are allowed to bring a knife to school.
Dude, I'm not the one with a problem. I'm the one with a solution. Perhaps you're just not ready to face reality.
If "very challenging" is a euphemism for dangerous, I sincerely hope this article and its comments might be an eye opener for you--not in the sense that you might suddenly slap your forehead and say, oh, yeah, I see where my reasoning broke down here. But in the sense that the underlying reasons for your passion on the issue can be addressed.
I say this in kindness, and I hope you take it that way. This thread has gotten contentious, and I don't want to pile on. Most are commenting on the issue in a general sense; speaking to the issues raised by the original article. For you, this seems very personal. If you believe you have no other option than to send your child into danger, day after day, in hopes that bureaucratic policies will keep him/her safe, I can understand your defensiveness. But the good news is, there are always options. Freepers are an incredibly generous bunch, with a wealth of experience and resources they'd gladly share with you if you were interested in learning ways in which you wouldn't be faced with sending your child to a school where a child's butter knife is seen as a shiv.
As parents, our chief responsibility is to keep our children safe. You can take offense at everyone's comments and plant your feet, or you can look at it as an opportunity to maybe, just maybe, see you and your child out of this "very challenging" daily situation. What have you got to lose?