While I agree that this is a whole-wide country problem in the past couples of years, I can state that as an educator Vermont has fallen prey to their own progressive ideals, mixed with the inability from the state to not be able to do anything when a parent goes "There is nothing wrong with my kid".

It's great to find if there are solutions to a problem when a kid is acting out and misbehaving, but people don't understand that sometimes a kid is just plain rotten (probably because of their parents) and that there needs to be consequences for that. If we don't teach consequences, we're only pushing kids through under the false ideal that something else is always to blame (the teacher, their emotions, another kid, the school, etc) instead of owning up to their faults and finding solutions within themselves to fix.

Case in point with the alteration at the basketball game. Instead of a parent simply going "it's okay, my kid just needs more practice/they're trying their best", they are blaming xyz reasoning on something/someone else. Combine that with the politics going on in our country right now, and you got the perfect storm.