Common sense left the building a long time ago.
When one of my sons was in middle school, he had a classmate who was particularly prone to fight at the drop of a hat. Almost every day my son came home with a story about who Joe got into a fight with, today. I noticed that the fights almost always happened in the locker room during gym class.
It finally dawned on me. The gym teacher was an old coach who had retired, got bored, and gone back to teaching and coaching. He knew exactly what was happening but he was allowing the students to handle things themselves, especially since the rules would’ve dictated that both particpants in the fight would have been suspended.
The parents of the kid who loved to fight finally got him involved in amateur boxing and that curbed his urge to pound on other people.
Stealing snacks from the faculty lounge? “Back in the day” someone on the faculty of my high school would have found some creative ways to punish the miscreants, like baking cookies for the faculty in the home ec classroom and then serving them to the faculty in their classrooms during class. The culprits would have probably preferred facing a judge!
“...like baking cookies for the faculty in the home ec classroom and then serving them to the faculty in their classrooms during class.”
One of the 1st rules of teaching, don’t eat food prepared by students.