@Hoss @LouisConde from the comments:

I still remember having a student who was just a constant thorn in my side. Rude, mouthy, disrespectful… pick a word, he was it. He got sent out a lot at one point because I couldn’t honestly handle his disruptions. So one day, he tells me to fuck off because I was racist POS. Off to the office. Three minutes later he comes back with a cocky smirk on his face with a note for me. It read “stop sending students to the office. You’re doing it too much.”

Whatever vestige of authority I had vanished like a fart on the wind after that. I was the problem, not the asshole little banger who made it his mission to mess with my classroom. There is nothing more demoralizing than admin who back the students because they want you to be friends with the students.

Fuck that. I’m supposed to be their teacher, not their buddy. I survived, but it left some pretty deep scars on my psyche.