The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history
With all due respect to the history. I was a public school teacher of "at risk" students for a quarter of of a century. I watched it go to hell, mostly, I think, do to teaching students that they don't really have to follow the rules, and them realizing that there wasn't a damn thing teachers had the power to do anything about it. There is a clear and present policy failure that has to be corrected independent of any history to date.