Is classroom management becoming increasingly impossible?

Whenever I go on an interview one of the things that all schools seem to zero in on is classroom management. Even though I usual give them a good answer, I know in my heart that it is becoming increasingly impossible to manage a class due to both the attitude and behavior of students and administration.

In terms of students, I feel that teachers have few to no arrows in their quiver in regard to disciplining the class. For example, when I politely tell students to stop talking I cannot tell you how many times their reply is ‘everyone else’ instead of accepting that their behavior was incorrect. If you yell at them you are mean and are a bully in the eyes of admin. If you are too lenient you are a light weight that cannot control the class.

In my school I tried to take off points if students refused to stop talking or broke the school’s cell phone policy. Unfortunately, students would scream at me even though I was only doing my job. Students have literally have no problem talking back at you and if you say something to admin its because YOU could not control the class

Admin is even more useless. They just want the class managed with literally no support. For example, at one school I worked at, they claimed that the school did not have an official cell phone policy which was their way of having plausible deniability and conveniently getting a teacher in trouble if their policy does not work out.

I feel strongly that not only is the American school system falling apart, society is too.