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My great grandmother had a solution for school violence. It worked.

At age 16 she took on the job of being the lone teacher in a school house, the last two male teachers had been beat up by the older students and weren't fit to continue after that.

First day of school she brought a board of significant dimension and weight and waited right beside the entrance.

As each student walked in she sized them up for trouble. Those she thought were trouble got a star inducing whack from behind.

She didn't have problems with violence in school after that first day.

This was roughly a hundred years ago.