Can you help me understand this paragraph?

I'm having some trouble understanding this paragraph. Can you help me understand what the paragraph is trying to say? It's called "These Deadly Times: Reconceptualizing School Violence by Using Critical Race Theory and Disability Studies" by Ivan Eugene Watts and Nirmale Erevelles.

I'm writing a paper for my Sociology class (The class is studying social problems), and we have to summarize a research paper and I'm having trouble understanding what the main idea of this paragraph is.

The paragraph says:

"Although a pragmatic response to school violence has been the general trend of contemporary research on school violence, some scholars extend the pragmatic to examine the social, cultural, political, and economic environment within which school violence is situated. They aregue that the pragmatic response treats school violence as an individual act, so that programs instituted to prevent violence seek to assign individual blame and instill individual responsibility. Critical of that response, these authors, drawing predominately from neo-Marxist and post-structuralist theorists, especially Foucault, demonstrate how prison-=like schools support "and underlying philosophical orientation towards social control that exacts a heavy toll on students, teachers, and the entire school community"