From: masterBB
Youth are like this. Okay, most classes will not have a student as bad as this one. But it happens. The teacher was wrong in this case, he should have called in another teacher or the dean.
I wasn't the most in-line kid when I was year 7-9ish but these other kids i went to school with were pretty abusive towards teachers and just bad kids in general. Im certain it was as bad as this. Completely agree with what you've said about how the teacher handled it. But yeah, 6-7 years (when i was 13-14) back we had people drinking at school / taking drugs, bringing knifes and bats into school, threatening teachers, keying cars, sexual assults, inter-school restraining orders.
You might be thinking i went to a poor school. Nope, the high-school i went to was rated outstanding by Ofsted 2 out of the 5 years i was there, the rest of the years it was rated good.
TLDR; More of the newer generation are little shits.