It's been adding to the death spiral of public academia for the last 2 decades. There's zero disciplinary accountability. There's hardly any academic accountability. Teachers hands are tied by 6 figure administrators.

A high school diploma can mean anything between an AP student and an illiterate felon who's behavior has been swept under the rug for their entire life.

Not only are they not paid enough, but administrators flat out refuse all disciplinary accountability, even going so far as to countermand teachers when they ask disruptive students to leave or be quiet.

I watched it happen in real-time throughout my career. A student would assault another student (sometimes we are talking felony level assault), they would get taken out of the classroom and the perp would return to the classroom before the victim (who could be out for hours or even days).

Visit any teaching subreddit or online community. It's the same across the board. Administrators are enabling a death spiral in academia.