In effect, a key element in this educational overhaul is the psychological dimension of our children. Classical education not only doesn't attend to psychological needs, it tends to look down on them. Intellectual elitism considers itself superior to and apart from any emotional needs. Science, math and literature outrank psychology every time. A big mistake, but a common one and a legitimized one.
Academics are a school's sacred cow.
Psychological health is its assumed state. To have to include psychological issues in its curriculum is to lower its standards and to have to address psychological health is an embarrassment. In their ivory towers, pretending that they are leading the way, without bothering to notice how many students are not only not following, but aren't even looking in their direction.