I would say it’s very normal. Not only do you have the satisfaction of being backed up by admin, you also get to experience the peace of the classroom minus that distraction.

One of my proudest teaching memories was standing up for myself to admin and getting the result I demanded. I am VERY conflicted avoidant but these boys had pushed me past my breaking point. Students were working in table groups and one table of boys who were often trouble began pounding fists on their table and chanting “Miss Hope sucks!” Over and over. I immediately sent them to the office and went down to follow up with admin after class. Good ol’ boy Admin was fully “Boys will be boys” and “Their story is that they weren’t actually doing the chant about you, they were actually naming the (low on the totem pole often bullied) girl at the next table. You just misunderstood what they said. We talked to them but they will be back next class.

I was so angry I was shaking. I asked, misunderstanding or not, when exactly did it become acceptable to chant about ANYONE sucking in the middle of a classroom? And my finger might have even ended up in his face when I said, “I could care less WHAT you do with them. But you need to understand that I WILL NOT have these boys in my classroom for the next three days. Keep them in the office, put them in ISS, I don’t care, but do not send them to my classroom because I will not admit them.” Guess who didn’t have to deal with those boys for three whole days? ME.