“Nothing can be done about it.”
Not true. Something can be done. It just takes a lot of courage by schools, districts and boards to do something about it. That courage is sorely lacking.
I like to watch “Live on Patrol” with the Anoka County Sheriff in St. Paul, MN. The other night he was giving the crime statistics between St. Paul and Minneapolis. While Minneapolis is about 1/3 larger, their various crimes were 4 to 5 times what St. Paul is.
The Sheriff said it boils down to the punishment that the juveniles receive in St. Paul compared to the lack of punishment in Mpls. Mpls. (and other cities) have a low to no punishment threshold for teenage criminals. So no wonder they commit more crime.
Here in Seattle there was a “teen” that car-jacked a 20-something guy. Shot the guy and he lost an eye. They caught the shooter. He was released to home detention to his single mom.
The rot in the American society is deep. There are good school districts but usually to live in one, it’s too expensive for the typical American family. So right now, we have 3.1 million students who are being home schooled or 6% of the total school-age children.
My old high school made me proud when the principal suspended all rioting students until she met with the parents... school board told her she couldn’t do that... that was the end of that school in Baltimore
Kick the students out, and they can not return without a parent or approved parental guardian.