The government schools nowadays are tough joints.
Drugs, weapons, kids have their lunch money taken, teachers being assaulted.
Time to bring some discipline. Metal Detectors at the door, random shakedowns of the students' lockers, make it a lockdown facility, return to corporal punishment, keep just one door for the kids to use, and have it guarded 24/7.
As long as kids think they will be able to smuggle in drugs, shivs, cigarettes, cheat sheets in by keistering them, there is going to be a problem.
Giving the youths a stricter regiment will help them immensely as an adult after they are admitted to the Penitentiary.