We have not quite reached that in New Zealand. Boys, in ways that girls do not, require firm guidance and discipline. Boys more than girls will always try to test boundaries. To a very large extent that is what it is to be a boy. Over recent years discipline for a variety of reasons has become 'softer' in schools.
Teaching is now overwhelmingly a female occupation.
Girls have tended to benefit from this, boys have not. Discipline and the collective ideal are two reflections of the same reality. For boys the group is of great importance and discipline involves loyalty to the group. The group is very often influenced by a kind of sub-culture that has grown up in New Zealand among young men. One has to be 'cool' and that means, far too often, not being a 'nerdy' academic.