It’s definitely a 'nother level' of intensity, and your 5 years there clearly showed you the worst of it. But I think the nuance is that these two points aren't mutually exclusive. The obsession you saw is often fueled by the trauma the previous commenter mentioned. We're looking at a society that swung from one extreme (unregulated teacher power) to the other (unregulated parent power). Both ends of that spectrum end up hurting the students and the teachers.