There appear to be no more safe places for children. With respect to the schools, this circumstance is simply not tolerable. There is, in the first place, a moral and ethical obligation to ensure the safety of children while they are in school. Our society has required that all children be educated, and it has established a system of public schools to provide that education. Parents who have entrusted their children to these schools have a right to expect that the students will be reasonably protected from harm.
Schools have an inherent responsibility to meet that expectation.
Second, the safety of our children while they are in school must be ensured so that their full attention can be given to the process of learning. At the very least, violence in schools is a serious distraction. However, none of these changes will do any good unless we meet certain basic conditions. Schools have to be safe and classrooms have to be orderly. Without that, reforms are nonsense.