I am familiar on a first hand level with some of the worst schools in this country and can tell you the real tragedy of these places is not the violence but the fact that very few of these kids are LEARNING anything to help them survive in this world.
The bottom line is that if you REALLY enforced the rules of common civility and insisted on high academic standards at least half of the students would no longer be able to attend.Thus the school would lose half of its state funding and half the staff would be gone.Not something the system would want to be party to so the charade continues year after year and the wasted lives just filter through the schools into the jails and unemployment lines.Truly pathetic.
Pathetic and tragic.
The entire education system and its philosophy should be torn up by its roots and rebuilt again from the ground up.
My wife and I conversed with a person who had an education degree over this past weekend. She said she was taking math courses to prepare her for next fall.
She teaches first grade!
I kid you not.