Yes. Cripple natural leaders.
was respectful behavior required by the nuns?...yes sirree...
did that make them into zombies?....absolutely not!
perhaps todays' "boys" are different and what I suspect is the extraordinary amount of TV and video games that parents allow...
boys come home and do they go outside to play ball?...climb trees?...beat up on one another?...no....they go home, see daddy's porn collection on the table, and get on the computer to do the same, and then play violent video games for their "exercize"...
stop blaming the schools.....they have enough or the blame in many ways.....its up to the parents to get their boys to be outside doing physical work/play....THAT'S where boys expend their energy, at least it was in the good old days...