I’m a veteran urban school high school teacher. When rules against bad behavior are relaxed, you’ll get even more of that bad behavior. It’s just that simple.
And I’ll tell you who will be hurt most by this. It will be the decent kids who come to school sober and willing to learn. Their classes will be disrupted now even more than before.
As a side note, even in my worst classes perhaps 80% of the kids were decent. They might have had attendance problems. But when they were there they behaved, and they tried. But oh, that remaining 20%. They were chronically disruptive, and the administration cared little to correct that. I suffered, but the education of the good kids suffered more.
Same here, 30+ year veteran in Urban High School in Illinois. There seems to be no behavior that cannot be excused and tolerated. What you allow is what will continue. And everything seems allowed these days.