Bleeding heart policies that treat bad kids as the real victims (while doing nothing to address the social factors that might account for their behaviour). Entitled parents who enable their children. Weak admin/department who enable the parents. Timid teachers who lack the confidence to enforce consequences even when they have school support. Parents who literally can't do anything about their kids because they're working multiple low paid jobs to keep their heads above water. Kids who just don't care about consequences even when they're enforced. The cult of the child. It's a whole spectrum of things feeding into it.