disappointed.

I am really struggling right now with kids and behavior issues. In some ways, I am glad to be back at work and on a normal schedule but in other ways it has made me even more jaded.
I feel like I walked back into a mess.
One kid in my first period class that had just gotten to wear he realized it was dumb to cross me and wasn't giving me trouble anymore had his name left by every single sub (I had 4) every single day (I was out 6). It is so frustrating to know how much my students take advantage of subs, even people that I thought could control these, at times, wild kids. And this one kid is just the beginning of what I was faced with when I came back.
When Jeremy was helping me grade papers last night he found 2 pairs of kids that blatantly cheated on daily assignments.
I had a student come to me and tell me about kids passing around "water" in my room one day.
Seriously, what is this world coming to? Or is it just the environment I am in right now? I am in disbelief, almost to tears at what is going on with these kids. It is maddening!
I was talking with a fellow teacher this morning about how we never would have dared to act the way some of the students act towards us.
Pray for me...the next 9 weeks could get very long if I dwell on this.